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“I had been part of the problem of Islamophobia”: Pastor Danny Cortez On This New Era

By The Editors

…from the show’s guests that reveal how their worldview has changed in this new era. Conservative evangelical pastor, Danny Cortez, changed his mind on LGBTQ equality. The first person he told was his teenage son, Drew, who moments later came out as gay. That moment changed their lives forever and brought one of them close to death. In interviews with each of them, we learn about the triumphs and troubles that followed. (Subscribe and listen to the…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ullian Tchividjian, grandson of famed evangelist Billy Graham, to be their new pastor. According to Charisma News Online, “As part of Tchividjian’s election, the 2,200-member congregation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, agreed to merge with Tchividjian’s 650-member New City Church, also located in the Fort Lauderdale area.” Kennedy was a profoundly political and powerful conservative pastor, albeit lesser-known than the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Dr. James…

World Congress of Families Meets, Seeks a New Dark Ages

By Gillian Kane

…il’s Benjamin Bull’s comment that “The Constitution is the only arbiter of American law. Allowing foreign or international law to determine the legitimacy of American law is completely unjustifiable and rife with dire consequences.” Presumably it is fine for activist American justices to cite international jurisprudence if it advances their religious agenda. Roger Kiska, an Ave Maria-trained lawyer, runs ADF’s European office. Located in Vienna, i…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…the conventions and things go dark for a couple of weeks,” Warren told the New York Times. “I’ve known both the guys for a long time, they’re both friends of mine, and I knew them before they ran for office, so I just called them up.” According to press reports, the questions will center on AIDS, poverty, human rights and the environment. Not everyone was thrilled by the choice of topics. In his daily FRC Action Update (July 21), the Family Resear…

Fake, Evil, Spiritual, Commodified; What’s the Truth About Popular Yoga?

By Andrea R. Jain

…Mohler, add that yoga’s popularization threatens the Christian essence of American culture. Hindu protesters, most notably the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), criticize yoga insiders for failing to recognize yoga’s so-called Hindu origins and illegitimately co-opting yoga for the sake of profit. I call this the Hindu origins position. The two are strikingly similar, most significantly insofar as they lean on the misconception that yoga is defini…

Can’t “Truss” a White Conservative’s Pledge

By Anthea Butler

…sed by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President. LBJ’s 1965 War on Poverty was triggered in part by the famous “Moynihan Report” finding that the black out-of-wedlock birthrate had hit 26%; today, the white rate exceeds that, the overall rate is 41%, and over 70% of African-American babies are born to single parent. Um, Hell-to-the-yeah s…

Good News for Jewish Justice

By Ruth Messinger

…can we build upon? For global justice work, what we learn from Pew is good news. Most American Jews believe that Jewishness is rooted in their values. Sixty-nine percent report that “leading an ethical life” is essential to their sense of being Jewish, and fifty-six percent report that working for justice and equality is essential to what Jewishness means to them. These statistics make powerful statements in their own right, and to me they make in…

Reimagining Twentieth Century Harlem as a Jewish Mecca

By Jeffrey Gurock

…sh story of that “greatest generation.” What’s your next book? I have begun work on a Bronx, New York neighborhood that was created in the 1940s and housed Jews, Italians and Irish, but excluded African Americans. Today it is home to black Americans, Latinos and immigrants from many parts of the world. I will look at the story of its ethnic and racial transformation over 80 years….

American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets

By W. Scott Poole

…how’s theology, or rather this season’s anti-theology, of the living dead. American Horror Story: Hotel has so far fooled most horror fans. Some feared that Lady Gaga would, in a very literal fashion, steal the show from us that’s become much beloved for its boundary-pushing, genre bending insanity. But, even that very meta-moment in which she portrays a century-old vampiress riding nearly nude into a 70s Studio 54-style club on a giant horse like…

We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization

By Chrissy Stroop

…t amounts to little more than “the power of positive thinking” or with any number of programs that bring people together for dialogue across political and religious divides. These problems don’t have convenient “spiritual” solutions. For a set of highly privileged Americans, I can understand why Worthen’s prescriptions might hold a certain attraction. But whatever one’s attitude to metaphysics and religion, it’s necessary to face the truth that Am…