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Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween

By Maxwell Grant

…. The movement began in 2002, and the organization’s website, www.jesusween.com, doesn’t appear to have been updated since 2012. But it’s still worth talking about, and not because it fits with the famililar “Ain’t those Evanglicals kooky?” meme. More recently, actor Kirk Cameron urged Evangelical families to approach Halloween, not quite as “Jesus Ween,” but along similar lines: You should have the biggest party on your block, and you should have…

Remembering Gil Scott-Heron

By Mark Hulsether

…m New Here was well received (for example earning a 8.5 rating on Pitchfork.com). There would be no Talib Kweli or other exemplary conscious rappers like Lupe Fiasco without the trailblazing work of Scott-Heron and others from his generation. So let us honor him today by remembering one of his most powerful poems, which has by no means has lost its relevance for musicians, spoken word artists, activists (religious or otherwise), and indeed anyone…

Why Won’t the President Say “Islamic Terrorists?”

By Paula Cooey

…ent in order to achieve power or control. More specifically, terrorism has come to mean perpetuating violence on civilians, making it distinct from other exercises of violence to achieve power—for example, military combat. Assuming this somewhat loose definition (without reference to who the terrorists are and who the civilians might be) leaves open questions of what kind of power is exercised and to what end. These questions lie at the heart of “…

Baby We Were Born for War: To Dominionist Christian Groups, No Election is Too Small — and Colorado is Just the Beginning

By Frederick Clarkson

…n,’ (SFTC) the extreme right wing group that has been demanding the County Commissioners declare Mesa County a ‘constitutional sanctuary,’ where state and federal laws don’t apply. The Commissioners unanimously rejected SFTC’s demand to do this because doing so would not only violate state and federal laws, but their oaths of office as well.” Political mixology The Coalition’s hundred percenters had mixed success elsewhere. But there’s an old sayi…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…ed by Ronald Reagan. But the man knew what he spoke of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loT_pYzi3Vw In sharp contrast to the bleakness of “Mama Tried” stands the deep hope of the greatest Christmas song ever written, “If We Make It Through December,” with its trusting assertion “I plan to be in a warmer town come summertime.” Haggard rarely name-checked the Lord in his songs, but he didn’t need to. You couldn’t listen to a line like that without k…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…and editors of scripture, scholars began to demonstrate, sometimes with incompatible stories and contradictory theologies. The New Testament’s gospels, this scholarship showed, were not composed shortly after Jesus’ death by his eyewitness disciples like Matthew and John. Rather, they were written accounts based on oral traditions and other now-lost writings, composed decades after Jesus’s death—with all the attendant problems of memory and recor…

What Facebook Unwittingly Reveals in its Ban of LifeSiteNews for Covid Misinformation

By Rebecca Todd Peters

…ipation of a website like LifeSiteNews, which has been described by Snopes.com as “a known purveyor of misleading information.” Their belligerent anti-abortion stance has contributed to the escalating stigmatization of abortion in the US and their tactics include both the perpetuation of inaccurate and dangerous medical information about abortion as well as sensationalized and fictional stories about biotech companies trafficking in fetal body par…

Muslims Need Not Apply—To the White House or Congress

By Julie Ingersoll

…ry time we write about something extreme, it’s dismissed with “well, every movement has its fringe folks.” I started to write this a week ago but had second thoughts because the whole exchange with Joan seemed like a one-off. Then today Salon.com is reporting that Tea Party Nation leader and founder Judson Phillips is calling for the defeat of Congressman Keith Ellison because he is a Muslim. Tea Party Nation claims 30,000 online members — and no…

“Lyin’ Ted’s” Non-Endorsement: When Coherence Becomes a Vice

By Neil J. Young

…he Republican rank and file. We should be far more worried, however, by whom they have judged the winner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8a2gt4VU8…

By the Way: Richard Land’s Non-Apology

By Randall Balmer

…, as the “National Association of Gals,” or “Nags.” A report in EthicsDaily.com alerted me to Land’s offensive comments (which, by the way, are even more chilling when you listen to the audio version). Because of Land’s long history of bullying and bald partisanship, I called on Land to do the honorable thing: apologize and tender his resignation. Others agreed. Land, apparently feeling the pressure, has issued what he characterized as an apology….