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Evangelical PR Blitz Before Midterms Won’t Fix the ‘81% Problem’

By Chrissy Stroop

…e a knack for cherry-picking data that paints them in a positive light. On October 18, Ed Stetzer and Andrew McDonald published a write-up of a study in Christianity Today that uses data from Wheaton’s Billy Graham Center Institute (of which Stetzer is executive director) and Lifeway Research (a branch of a Southern Baptist publishing and retail juggernaut). Their analysis focuses on evangelicals’ self-described motives for voting for Trump, as if…

New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With

By Samira K. Mehta

…White Christian imperialism. Columbus’ true origin? Initially broadcast on October 12th (when Spain celebrates Christopher Columbus as part of observing its National Day), Columbus’ DNA features forensic anthropologist José Antonio Lorente, who not only claims that remains recently unearthed in the Seville Cathedral are those of Columbus, but also that data suggest these might be the remains of a person of Jewish origin. Both Columbus’ origins and…

Evangelical Author on Why Christian Conservatives Supported Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…nd Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him Stephen Mansfield Baker Books October 3, 2017 In his new book, Choosing Donald Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him, Stephen Mansfield seeks to answer that question. By contextualizing the 2016 race, briefly recounting Trump’s religious biography, and exploring the mindset of the “Values Voters” who turned out en masse, Mansfield works to make their choice intelligible….

U.S. Envoy Minimizes Mounting Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan

By Frederick Clarkson

…s more who have fled to the Nuba Mountains who will also die of starvation unless Khartoum allows humanitarian aid in. The daily aerial bombings have caused farmers to flee leaving the fields untended. And if there is no planting, there will be no harvest in October. “There will be mass starvation,” he said. “A major catastrophe. Tens of thousands will die in the Nuba mountains. They will watch their children die before they die themselves.” “If t…

LDS Church-Owned Radio Station Stands By Rush Limbaugh

By Joanna Brooks

…untry airs Rush Limbaugh—except the LDS-owned Bonneville International. In October 2010, LDS/Bonneville-owned KSL radio in Salt Lake City dumped political commentator Sean Hannity, a move some viewed as an effort to align programming with a recently adopted corporate mission and values statement including the following points: “I honor principles espoused by our owner in the products and services I provide.” “I promote integrity, civility, moralit…

Penn Jillette’s Signs You May Already Be an Atheist

By Steve A. Wiggins

…In August, Penn Jillette’s God, No! was published, to great acclaim. As of October it ranked #273 in Amazon’s book sales category. (Those of us whose books are ranked down in the millions can’t help but feel a little pang of jealousy; it does tell us, however, who is getting read!) Jillette is the vocal member of Penn & Teller, the bad-boy magician duo, and a noted iconoclast. Largely a ramble through his inner monologue, God, No! is the first boo…

Hell 101: A Back-to-School Reflection on the Persistence of Belief in Eternal Punishment

By Hollis Phelps

…red by the First Pentecostal Holiness Church of Goldsboro, NC. Through mid-October to mid-November, visitors can experience a visually-impressive “walk-through drama that presents the truth of people’s choices versus the consequences of those decisions both in this life and the next.” The various scenes of decision, tragedy, and punishment are all-important, because “[n]o other tool is more effective at presenting the gospel and giving individuals…

Pope Francis Opens Holy Doors; Trump Calls For Closed Borders

By Anthea Butler

…be told, became fully alive in 2008. Remember those Sarah Palin rallies of October of that year? John McCain could not stop Palin, a Pentecostal whose rallies that became right wing hate fests, over her snarling about how “Obama Pals around with terrorists.” Palin just recently signed her new devotional book at a gun range in Newhall, CA and regularly posts angry missives on Facebook. I would argue that it is Palin who has lent Trump the battle pl…

Science, Syphilis, and the Evolution of Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…46. The paper was published online on the Wellesley website at 9 a.m. EST, October 2, 2010, while President Obama called Guatemalan President Àlvaro Colom Caballeros to apologize. Sixty-four years ago, as the Nuremburg trials investigating Nazi abuse of people in the name of science were going on in post-WWII Germany, the United States Public Health Service was intentionally exposing Guatemalans to the bacterium that causes syphilis, so that diffe…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…march drew tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands depending on whose numbers you believe – of anti-marriage-equality Catholics and evangelicals to Mexico City, the culmination of weeks of protest organized by the National Front for the Family. Days before, the Supreme Court ruled that adoption by same-sex couples should be considered, like other adoptions, according to the best interest of the child. In preparation for Saturday’s anti-marria…