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Oral Roberts, Pioneering Christian Zionist

By Shalom Goldman

…l remained undiminished. After the 1967 War, Roberts returned to Israel, visited the Christian Holy Places now under Israeli control, and enthusiastically promoted the view that the Israeli victory was the unfolding of God’s plan for Israel and for the world. It was at this juncture that the next generation of ‘televangelists’—most notably Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson—jumped on the Israel bandwagon. They also jumped on numerous El Al flights to…

The Mystic in the Rye: JD Salinger’s Religious Fiction

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…andpiper, and I hasten to tell you what little I presume to know about his flights, his heat, his incredible heart. (“Seymour,” 113-114) After this burst of spiritual and quasi-scriptural energy spanning roughly a decade, Salinger fell silent. Theories abound as to why. He ran out of things to say. He felt that he’d said everything he could responsibly say. He felt that publishing was just “a damned interruption.” I’ve even heard that he stopped w…

Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

By Paul Harvey

…or tax-exemption within religious institutions, into a series of fact-free flights about the muzzling of Christian speech: The first thing we have to do is give our churches their voice back. It’s been taken away. The Johnson amendment has blocked our pastors and ministers and others from speaking their minds from their own pulpits. If they want to talk about Christianity, if they want to preach, if they want to talk about politics, they’re unable…

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…eels like the cause of equality has been set back by a generation. Bigoted officials “actually do ruin people’s lives,” he said. Belize: American Anti-Gay Activist Slams Local Religious Practices As ‘Witchcraft’ Anti-gay missionary and pastor Scott Stirm was challenged by Rep. Frank “Pawpa” Mena after Stirm criticized Garifuna religious practices, specifically saying the Dugu funeral ceremony is “witchcraft.” The Garifuna people are, according to…

What’s More Frightening Than Snakes on a Plane?

By Devin Kuhn-Choi

…than snakes on a plane? Apparently, women on a plane, as recent reports of flights being delayed due to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men refusing to sit in their assigned seats next to women, indicate. Here on RD, Kara Loewentheil recently argued that the airplane demonstration but that it “replicates the broader social and political movement strategies we’ve seen on a personal scale,” and highlighted the similarities between these smaller-scale protests…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…to Hazel’s favorite author, the fictional Peter van Houten. As part of the official tour of the memorial museum, Hazel, attached to a nose tube and lugging an oxygen tank, must climb many narrow flights of stairs to reach the famous “annex.” The film provides tight, wrenching shots of her claustrophobic struggle—the stairs that briefly lengthened Anne’s days could shorten Hazel’s life. Yet, for the moment, Hazel triumphs. She collapses at the top…

The Myth of the Maya Apocalypse

By Evan Pondel

…end tomorrow, there has been a significant uptick in searches for one-way flights to airports near towns in the South of France and Turkey (both of which are rumored to be safe havens from the apocalypse), so everyone from scholars to journalists to NASA—even the Vatican—continue to quell worries and debunk myths. Well before we began to approach the actual date, the Maya apocalypse hysteria inspired Mark Van Stone, an expert in Mayan hieroglyph…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…e West by the UN refugee agency in Cairo. But since the 2005 peace accords officially ended the second Sudanese civil war, the Southern Sudanese are no longer recognized as refugees. After a brutal Egyptian police raid on a Sudanese protest in Cairo, William, like many Sudanese refugees, paid Bedouin smugglers for passage across the South Sinai. He came to Israel in search of asylum and higher education, so he can help his people when he returns h…

“Marriage Savers” Lobbies for Repeal of No-Fault Divorce

By Kathryn Joyce

…ls who hold responsibility for the dissolution of their marriages. The Web site lays out a plan of five groups of people who could be mobilized to fight for more stringent divorce laws, including adult children of divorced parents or of unmarried parents, family members of divorced couples, the 80% of divorcees Marriage Savers considers “victims of divorce,” and also the officials, social service workers, judges, and lawmakers who work with divorc…

Israel Claims Holy Sites, Reignites Religious Flashpoint

By Orly Halpern

…Yaakov, and Leah, were buried. “Netanyahu wants to make them solely Jewish sites and to take control of the land under these Muslim sites.” The structure over the Cave of the Patriarchs has long been under contention. Under Christian rule it was a church, under Muslim rule it was a mosque. Permission to pray inside depended on which religion and ruler was in power at the time. Crusaders prevented Muslims from praying inside, but when Salahaddin co…