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Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…world have been a thriving secular democracy? Or without the support of American military power, would it have regressed into several ISIS-like fragments competing among one another? And ultimately, what effect would that have had on minorities, women and queer people in those territories? I am keener to believe in the former. After all, countries like Bangladesh and Indonesia – despite all their ongoing troubles with Islamism- provide a clearer p…

What Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ad list of crazed attackers that includes the killers at the Columbine and Sandy Hook schools. On the other hand, he was ethnically a Muslim, which automatically convicts him in some simplistic minds. And he is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”) before the police opened fire on him at the end of his murderous rampage. This phrase, however, is somewhat like the English language expression, “Lord of mercy,” that can be expressed by…

Can a Church Split Truly Be Gracious?

By Adam J. Copeland

…hism in the United Methodist Church. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has lost approximately 600 congregations in the past few years. The Anglican Communion views the Episcopal Church of the United States with increasing suspicion. Aware of this context, I approached the Bathgate church eager to convince them to stay in the fold. At first I thought a few frank conversations and my young adult energy would turn them around. They just need…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…er against measures promoting federal taxpayer funding of abortion.” The Susan B. Anthony List, “a nationwide network” of over 150,000 Americans “dedicated to mobilizing, advancing, and representing pro-life women in politics,” played a prominent role opposing Barack Obama’s election. ++++++++++ Obama Should “Bring America Together” by Appointing Bush-Nominated Judges, says the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins Apparently, having Pastor Rick…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…w of the end-times sets Bickle apart from many other evangelicals and Pentecostals, including many, oddly, with whom he has shared the stage at The Call and The Response events. Texas televangelist John Hagee, for example, who spoke at The Response and whose San Antonio church brought busloads of congregants, preaches a pre-millenial view: that the rapture will be followed by a period of tribulation, followed by the Christ’s return for the showdow…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…ucted song when he heard one, and a kindred rebel soul. As Haggard’s music sank in over the years, I learned too about being unapologetic for a humble background, or an unpopular opinion. He made it possible to embrace the artist-as-crank, and for that I will always be grateful. Everybody talks about Haggard’s integrity. He called it like he saw it—even when he later came to regret it, as with 1969’s anti-hippie anthem, “Okie From Muskogee,” a son…

‘High Church’ Chronicles: Will Anglican Blessing of Medical Marijuana Open the Door to a Royal Strain?

By Becky Garrison

…dopting this resolution, the Episcopal Church has remained largely silent. San Leandro’s All Saints Episcopal Church did offer an educational presentation on medical cannabis on June 10, 2018, a few weeks before cannabis became legalized for recreational use in California. (A full list of religious denominations supportive of medical marijuana can be found here.) So do these moves point to the advent of a new form of high Anglican church? Here the…

Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

By Peter Montgomery

…n.” Says Buchanan of Putin, “The adversary he has identified is not the America we grew up in, but the America we live in, which Putin sees as pagan and wildly progressive.” Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber also praised Putin, writing, “How sad that the leader of an atheist government, in a country where tens of millions have died under Marxism – another of Obama’s pet causes – could out-Christian our once-Christian nation.” Barber complained that fo…

News Flash: Buddhist-Majority Countries Just as Complicated as Muslim-Majority

By Haroon Moghul

…under not good, and the country’s most famous democratic personality, Ang San Suu Kyi, has been disturbingly quiet, preferring not to speak out; whatever her reasons may be, her silence is as they say deafening. In addition to the country’s long history of ethnic and sectarian conflict, the plight of its Muslim population continues to worsen, with evidence of human trafficking of Burmese Muslim refugees now surfacing. The violence threatens to sp…

It’s All In Your Head: Patricia Churchland’s Touching a Nerve

By Andrew Aghapour

…and engender vigils. Fire was a powerful agent in the expansion of the American nation-state, the dawn of the Neolithic Revolution, and the saturation of your couch with weird chemicals. There’s no doubt that rapid oxidation is a very important aspect of fire’s reality, since it is an empirical description of its most basic existence. However, if we follow Churchland in claiming that rapid oxidation is “the real underlying nature of fire,” and pr…