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Pentecostal Scholars Call for Academic Freedom

By Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh

…to a ministry from our church whose sole purpose apparently was to go on a search for Noah’s Ark. Needless to say, my faux Young Earth creationist phase did not last, just like my brief career as a staff member for a Pentecostal church in suburban Chicago. My conflicts with my own Pentecostalism, and the Pentecostal culture that I work in, write about, and called my spiritual home for 25 years stem from one huge problem: a dangerous codependent re…

We Shall Not Stop at Evangelism: Remembering Evangelical John R. W. Stott

By Randall Balmer

…, he chose to remain there rather than head off in a separate direction in search of some chimera of evangelical purity. In many ways, the defining moment of his career came back in 1966 when Stott was chairing the National Assembly of Evangelicals. In the course of the proceedings, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, another prominent evangelical, made the case that evangelicals within the Church of England should defect and start their own group. Though not sla…

RDGenerations: Religion in the Academy

By Lucia Hulsether

…ks like the Left Behind series, it’s not surprising. I just used Google to search for “Obama Anti-Christ” and turned up quite a bit. Glen Beck even asked John Hagee about it on CNN. LH: Let’s come back to this after we finish talking about classroom dynamics. Your “greatest hits” Bible assignment reminds me of exercises we did in New Testament class to clarify differences in students’ religious traditions and interpretive styles. These reflections…

Do Sheriffs Actually Have the Power to Disrupt Elections?

By Cloee Cooper

…citizen support on an ad hoc basis for situations such as felony stops or search-and-rescue operations. These seemingly minor details could have significant legal implications if sheriffs increase their efforts to deputize citizens. For now, election-related threats from the Constitutional Sheriff’s and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) largely consist of rhetoric, aligning them with the broader “Stop the Steal” movement. However, as I mentioned…

The Night of the Farting Dog: An Atheist in Freefall

By Beatrice Marovich

…haotic monotony of domestic life intervened with a vengeance. The quixotic search for meanings and enlightenments began to seem a bit hollow, in other words, when Salzman became your typical American househusband—a stay-at-home dad. While his wife (a figure he describes in such beaming terms that she comes off as a flawless, superhuman, Venus in bronze) went to work full time in the L.A. film industry, Salzman stayed home with their two young chil…

The Master: “It’s Not the L. Ron Story”

By Joseph Laycock

…connections between the film’s charismatic leader and Hubbard. Anderson researched the early history of Scientology by reading through The Abberree, a newsletter published from 1954-1965 by two of Hubbard’s early followers—he also studied the personalities of such charismatic figures as Aimee Semple McPherson, Werner Erhard, and Jim Jones to create Lancaster Dodd. It was Hoffman who suggested the story was not actually about the nominal Master, b…

If Bad-Ass Nuns Ruled the World

By Jo Piazza

…ubmitted the final manuscript. “Bad Habit” apparently didn’t work well for search, which matters these days when people figure out what to read by googling rather than browsing in a book store. The next option was to call it “Bad Ass Nuns,” which we volleyed around for a couple of weeks. But even though many of the nuns in my book are very progressive and hip they don’t love foul or harsh language and the last thing I wanted to do was to insult an…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…cy group, however, is challenging the bigotry head on. Born of a harrowing search for cultural and political identity, the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) remains the only formally established LGBT Muslim organization in the country. The group emerged in January 2013 from the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference, which has sought to advance the cause of “full freedom, justice, and equality for lesbian, gay…

Jesus in 3D: The Shroud of Turin Meets the 21st Century

By Peter Manseau

…l band of crusading knights. According to the text (uncovered by Vatican researcher Barbara Frale), until 1354 the Shroud was safeguarded by the Knights Templar, a military order that was popular and well supported within the Church, even if they were occasionally accused of idolatry and sodomy. Dr. Frale’s document may explain such allegations. She writes of a young French Templar, Arnaut Sabbatier, who joined the order in 1297 after undertaking…

Yes We Can/Si Se Puede: Remembering and Forgetting Cesar Chavez (March 31, 1927—April 23, 1993)

By Luis Leon

…ut nonetheless determined to transform history: Cesar Chavez. Do an online search for Cesar Chavez and you have to drill down quite a bit before you get to any information at all about the religious dimension of Chavez’s life and work. It is an odd omission, but while Chavez may have been a revolutionary, he was no materialist. Chavez first captivated global attention on Valentine’s Day in 1968 when (taking his cue from Gandhi) he began his famous…