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Washington Post Story Gets Christian Reconstructionism Wrong

By Julie Ingersoll

…1960s, served as an expert witness in the trials establishing them as a legal alternative to public schooling in the 1970s and 1980s, and was the impetus for much of the homeschooling curriculum still in use today. Gardner is also wrong about Rushdoony’s politics. He never tried to start a political party. He insisted that the primary goals of the movement were not political (by which he meant concerned with civil government). He did advocate theo…

Cooler than Thou: Will Hipsters Wreck Christianity?

By Nicole Greenfield

…rg, a plant of Redeemer Presbyterian, one of the largest and most influential evangelical churches in New York City. I arrived drenched and he arrived late, wearing a utility shirt, jeans, and a maroon wool hat he never removed. We sat at the counter, sipping bottomless coffee from oversized mugs, and talked about our neighborhood and how to build community, his experience starting and leading a church, music, education, and his recently adopted s…

A State Without a Mexican

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…of us, and about what kind of country we want to be… This law will make it illegal to love your neighbor in Arizona, and will force us to disobey Jesus and his gospel. We will not comply. While not advocating illegal immigration, the need to find a more compassionate avenue for addressing the undocumented immigrants in our midst—one that does not tear apart families and keep individuals living in fear—must be embraced. We have a broken immigration…

LGBT and Muslim? A New Report Busts Stereotypes

By Peter Montgomery

…ts movements to Muslim countries. Considering the identity-practice divide also allows for understanding as something more than simple buffoonery the statement by Iranian President Ahmadinejad that Iran has no homosexuals—the category itself is seen as a Western invention. In her article, Aisha Geissinger explores a more fluid understanding of gender and an openness toward same-sex desires that is revealed in much poetry and literature from pre-19…

The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…journalism professor Alisa Solomon—The Reverend Billy Project: From Rehearsal Hall to Super Mall with the Church of Life After Shopping. In it, they reflect on their theatrics, activism, where it all came from, and what it might mean. The book also gives us an opportunity to put the two of them in conversation with Lofton here. Let’s start with some basics. Katie, what were your first impressions of the Reverend Billy character? KL: Before looking…

All-American Muslim is Just TV, Folks

By Zeba Iqbal

…Bang Theory, The Office, ER, and The Daily Show). And there have been several major films with Indian characters: The Namesake, Slumdog Millionaire, and Harold and Kumar to name a few. Did the lackluster Bombay Dreams promote increased Indian-American exposure on film and TV? Real-Time Hypercriticism A few Sundays ago, I watched the premiere of the first TV series featuring American Muslims, TLC’s All-American Muslim. Reality TV, like Broadway mus…

Historic Prayer by Woman at LDS General Conference Signals Growing Concern with Gender Equality

By Joanna Brooks

…n’s ordination to the Mormon priesthood—a lay priesthood that enfranchises all male members of the Church above 12 years of age—launched a new online campaign to foster conversation by profiling LDS men and women who support ordination at OrdainWomen.org. On Friday, the LDS Church responded to the heightened attention to with the release of a video featuring leaders of the Church’s women’s auxiliaries weighing in on the role of women. Female churc…

New Study Claims to ‘Explain’ Near-Death Religious Experiences

By Michael Schulson

…mong other sources, they write: Near-death experience represents a biological paradox that challenges our understanding of the brain and has been advocated as evidence for life after death and for a noncorporeal basis of human consciousness…we now provide a scientific framework to begin to explain the highly lucid and realer-than-real mental experiences reported by near-death survivors. There’s no question that the Michigan study has implications…

“Ex-Gay” Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin and the Decline of Public Theology

By Joshua L. Lazard

…iscuss HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet and still, these same networks will call on a pastor to comment on the issue of same-sex marriage, even if he or she has no degree from an accredited college or masters program. The speaker might be a pastor of a megachurch and megaministry, but they often fail to have the same educational background as their counterparts in other fields. The thing is, any time you invoke God in public you are doing publi…

Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

By Hollis Phelps

…ood, expresses her frustration with church leaders who think that getting millenials back to the churches involves little more than “a few style updates—edgier music, more casual services, a coffee shop in the fellowship hall, a pastor who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.” Citing polling data, Evans notes that the problem is one of substance rather than style: “young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to b…