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Oral Roberts, Pioneering Televangelist, Dies

By Anthea Butler

…and ministry on his television show, and he soon began to feature musical numbers and dancing—behaviors prohibited in traditional Pentecostal denominations—as a way to both reach supporters and promote ORU. Far from the stereotype of the illiterate Pentecostal, Roberts’ plans included not only a university, but the City of Faith, a medical complex which included a nursing school, dental school, and hospital. Believing that God had divinely inspir…

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…road to the Eastern Mennonite College at Harrisonburg and asked a similar number of Christian students the same question. Almost every hand shot up. 7. An Evangelical to Restore Scientific Integrity in DC? In August, much to the chagrin of new atheist Sam Harris, Francis Collins, an evangelical Christian who headed the Human Genome Project, was appointed director of the National Institutes of Health. As a prominent scientist, Collins speaks ofte…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…than the gender-bending, clone-challenging threesome of its origin both in numbers and in intent. As many living in San Francisco know (or in the various locations around the globe to which the order has spread), the Sisters are a self-described ministerial, charitable and grant awarding organization. As they explain it, the Sisters are a leading-edge Order of queer nuns. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sist…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…y relationship between the two countries amounted to more than ten billion dollars over the course of twenty years.” On the Israeli side, the alliance with South Africa was fostered by Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and Moshe Dayan, three men who often fought among themselves, but who were united in shaping a new Israeli foreign policy after the 1973 War. In Polakow-Suransky’s analysis this unlikely troika “saw Israel’s security as paramount and the…

Americans Are Overtreated to Death

By Daniel Schultz

…g to the Dartmouth Atlas Project, which tracks health care trends. Yet the numbers show that’s not what is happening: •The average time spent in hospice and palliative care, which stresses comfort and quality of life once an illness is incurable, is falling because people are starting it too late. In 2008, one-third of people who received hospice care had it for a week or less, says the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. •Hospitali…

Bobby Jindal Squares Packing Heat with Jesus

By Welton Gaddy

…a business, or a civic auditorium (recall his defense for using taxpayers’ dollars to fly around Louisiana giving his Christian testimony exclusively in evangelical churches). Little wonder that he would fail to see a difference between carrying concealed weapons to a church and to a civil protest. But, thankfully, no government leader gets the right to determine the sanctity of a place of worship and what happens there. To the State Legislature o…

New Report Breaks Silence on Faith-Based Orgs

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…oups and abstinence-only education. The CFC report exposes the billions of dollars that is often funneled through conservative Christian organizations that insert their theological and political agenda into their outreach, vilifying sex workers, homosexuals, and perpetuating US neo-colonialism across Africa. Perhaps one of the most shocking moments in reading this document is the reminder of the Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill that would punish ce…

Welcome to the “Career College” Scam

By Peter Laarman

…and universities. And lest anyone imagine that we are talking about small dollars here, the proprietary school industry rakes in one-fifth of all federal loans, grants, and campus-based aid: the tidy sum of $16 billion during the 2007-08 academic year. Despite the damning performance numbers, don’t expect this racket to be shut down anytime soon: the scam school industry is too well connected politically for that to happen. And, in fact, when the…

Why Running Left and Governing Right Never Works

By Peter Laarman

…cial regulatory bill passed, the big banks (the ones rescued with taxpayer dollars) were already raising fees and penalties on small depositors and small credit card borrowers and will continue to do so, whereas the big health insurers have already imposed higher premiums and limited access to providers. Thus, the moral effect of the betrayal of Main Street by the Change We Can Believe In crowd will be yet more cynicism and yet more political nonp…

The Rise and Fall of an American Gang: Religion as Camouflage?

By Spencer Dew

…who, or why. Likewise, we’re told “the El Rukns had been paid ten thousand dollars through the coffers of a black state representative to put up flyers and do other campaign work for Mayor Jane Byrne in her race for reelection against black candidate Harold Washington,” but, again, we’re not told who, or why. Fort emerged from a prison stint in 1976 to announce that “We now understand the symbolic meaning of the Stones as the cornerstone of the h…