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Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…n Rather Reports program titled “Christian Soldiers,” (originally aired on October 2, 2007), which features Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of MRFF and Stephen Mansfield. “When his last book, Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America … and What’s Happened Since, came out last summer,” Rodda wrote, “Mansfield joined the ranks of the Christian nationalist history revisionists, perpetuating, in some case…

Darwin in Rome: Burden of Diversity, Mystery of Time

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ilologist James Ussher, that the Genesis-event could be dated precisely to October 23, 4004 BCE—making the world just 6,000 years old—then Darwin speculated a world of astonishing antiquity, a world whose very diversity was directly due to its great age. Disappearing the Etruscans A second show was housed in the Exhibition Palace of Rome, this one was dedicated to the Etruscans. Here was the second great mystery on display. We know very little abo…

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…eadingly referred to her, the “missing link.” But a paper published in the October edition of Nature described her more of an evolutionary dead end. Religious fundamentalists were quick to celebrate, saying it proves that there is little evidence to support evolution. But scientists had been skeptical about Ida’s significance from the beginning and while she may not be a direct ancestor, she does reveal important information about our origins. Whi…

The Fear is Real: A New View of Halloween “Hell Houses”

By Lucia Hulsether

…of hell house pageantry, which brings participants—a total of 25,000 every October—on a 90-minute walk through the South Georgia woods. We observed intensely violent renditions of standard end-times scenarios: the rapture of believers; an ensuing period of torture and tribulation for the faithless “left behind”; a climactic battle between Jesus and Satan; and a final judgment in which Jesus orders a teenage church-girl to be dragged by demons into…

Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween

By Maxwell Grant

…but expected. According to the website: “There is no better day to choose. October 31st presents us with a unique opportunity to spread the gospel….You don’t even have to go out of your way; people will come to your doorstep, anyway.” The whole thing has “Ned Flanders” written all over it. Maybe that’s why it seems to be having trouble catching on, even among Christians with a hexed—I mean, vexed—relationship to Halloween. The movement began in 20…

Should I Scream and Shout, Should I Speak of Love?: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 2

By Mark Dery

…ance. Our devastation mounted. —Madeline, a Bowie fan Late on the night of October 25, 1974 in a San Diego suburb hard by the Mexican border, a 14-year-old me kneels close to the TV, flicker bathing my rapt face. It’s the only light in the house. I’m watching Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture, D.A. Pennebaker’s 1973 film of Bowie’s farewell performance as Ziggy, on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert—the same broadcast that’s saving the bored teenage sou…

Have White Evangelicals Become More Accepting of Candidates’ Personal Immorality, as New Data Suggests?

By Michael Schulson

…iment to the record of good public servants. Among white evangelicals, the number was even higher—72%, or a 42 point increase over the 2011 data. Credit: PRRI So has “[Donald Trump] changed all that,” as Jonathan Chait asserted, referring to evangelicals’ earlier views? Has the moral majority become the “immoral minority”? And is this a sign of a “sudden, massive shift” among white evangelicals, as one journalist put it on Twitter? Not necessari…

Nonviolence: Between Our Safety And Our Ideals

By Nathan Schneider

…has its hold on Obama, as it does on all of us one way or another. In the October 7 presidential debate, Obama invoked the power of violence. “We will kill bin Laden,” he promised. “We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.” We should know by now that killing and crushing offers no security, yet it goes on seeming like the only possible posture a president can make. No. Security is a condition that is ours to…

American Supports Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill

By Michael Wilkerson

…proposed legislation. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, introduced last October by parliamentarian David Bahati, had its origins in a March 2009 visit by three anti-gay American evangelists—Scott Lively, Caleb Lee Brundidge, and Don Schmierer—who gave a series of talks and workshops about fighting the “homosexual agenda” and protecting children from being “recruited” to homosexuality. The activists later denied playing a role in the bill’s crea…

The Enigmatic Role of Anti-Semitism in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

By Katherine Kelaidis

…wing anti-semitic tropes to govern their treatment of him. For example, in October of last year, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council (and former president) Dmitry Medvedev published a shocking, expletive-filled attack on Ukraine and its president. In addition to repeating the Putin regime’s persistent claim that Ukraine has no distinct cultural identity and that Moscow is the sole and rightful heir of the Kievan Rus, Medvedev referred to Zelen…