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Evangelical Pastor Tests First Amendment Waters

By Randall Balmer

…lation), the progenitor of the notion of church-state separation. “I would welcome the history of my Baptist forefathers in going to jail over these issues,” Williams said. “I will not be silenced by intimidation.” I guess I was unaware that Roger Williams was receiving tax exemptions from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. And what is the object of H. Wayne Williams’ ardor? Williams endorsed Gordon Howie (not to be confused with hockey great Gordie Ho…

Fragments of Secular Sanctity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mes of economic crisis, any way to create a new pilgrimage site provides a welcome boost to the local economy, whether in Poland or in Tuscany. But the Church is not doing it, this time; a museum of modern science is. Galileo’s relics are to be housed, not in a cathedral, but in a public museum. That is why I am not sure whether this is a story about religion, or about science, or about art. Perhaps it is a story about something else entirely, a c…

Poll: Gays Oppose Arizona Immigration Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…some of the most Christian principles in this matter. This community of outcasts understands, on a gut level, if not a religious level, that it is good, and just, and moral to welcome the stranger; to show hospitality, especially to the least of these. Remind me again how people can’t be good without God?…

Tony Perkins Has A Point

By Lauri Lebo

…erence for our Savior, show clips of them. All of us can tolerate and even welcome discussion over religious differences. But when it comes to mocking the Person Christians believe was God in the flesh, the Savior of the world, under the guise of humor, we’re compelled to speak out. We ask that you please email Comedy Central’s parent company Viacom, and kindly ask them to not allow this show to make it onto their schedule. I never thought I would…

Who Says the Tea Party isn’t a Religious Movement?, Part II

By Joanna Brooks

…y of prophetic millennialism. Beck, a convert to Mormonism, recalls the strident prophetic voice that distinguished Mormonism from 19th-century Protestant groups. Many Mormons have a long cultural memory of persecution. Though they may welcome their church’s modern emphasis on their similarities to other religionists, I believe there remains a longing in them for the ‘peculiar people’ identity conveyed by the divisive prophetic voice and the histo…

Immigration Reveals the Many Faces of Jesus

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ith Abraham, three strangers come to Abraham and Sarah’s home and they are welcomed in with a lavish meal. The strangers turn out to be angels from God who bless them with news that they are to have a son at their advanced age. When Jesus is asked in Matthew 25 who will get into heaven, Jesus offers these criteria, “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you took me in.” That’s a far cry from t…

Harry Potter Gone Bad: Lev Grossman’s The Magicians

By Donna Freitas

…a new year at Hogwarts, with Dumbledore in the middle of his heartwarming welcome to students. In this situation, Chuck Bass would light a cigar, take out a flask, tell Dumbledore to get a life, and try to get at least two first-year girls into bed by night’s end—preferably at the same time. Alas, it is not difficult to imagine Quentin, “[the] slacker Park Slope Harry Potter,” and his fellow magician friends (the perpetually bored and drunk) Elio…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…holic Church, without a Pope or anyone else on top, a Church where all are welcome and involved. This creeping clericalism was operative in the analysis of the sisters’ letter in support of the health care bill. Some commentators tried to equate the sisters and the bishops as if there were really two sides within the Catholic hierarchy and now the other side had spoken. With all due respect to the nuns, this is simply not true. As the health care…

New Ex-Offender Program Puts Church Ahead Of State

By Mark Bergen

…to reignite the culture wars in the name of religious liberty. In a video promoting the Declaration, Colson likened contemporary America to Nazi Germany, and “elites” and “intellectuals” to Hitler. For decades, PFM has placed its volunteers inside prison walls to minister directly to inmates. In addition to questions about the programs’ effectiveness, such partnerships with state institutions have drawn legal challenges. InnerChange, a PFM progra…

Freedom Federation Summit: A Sleepy Awakening

By Sarah Posner

…Community, sought to dispel “rumors” that the tea party movement doesn’t “welcome blacks.” Yet while they endorsed their tea party friends (who had apparently depleted their audience), other speakers made clear that perhaps the tea parties needed a little more of the holy ghost. “We need the tea party movement with a Christian imperative,” said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. “That wo…