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GOP Hopeful Herman Cain: Jesus was “The Perfect Conservative”

By Michael J. Altman

…al bid, and he was a spokesman for Ginni Thomas’ “Liberty Central.” At the October 2010 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention in Richmond, I saw football-jersey-style T-shirts displaying names of those who might run for president this year: Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, and Herman Cain. When no other Republican wanted to talk about 2012, Cain would walk into speeches introduced by a heavily produced video, a highlight reel of his other sp…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…ed from North America to Europe, South America, and the Philippines, met a number of politically powerful Republican politicians and conservative religious leaders, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Iran/Contra figure Oliver North, and then-Senator Rick Santorum. Religious leaders like Charles Stanley (a former distributor), Dr. Robert Schuller and the late Dr. D. James Kennedy of Florida’s Coral Ridge Ministries—a multimedia, m…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…Hill cancelled their annual signature Resurgence Conference scheduled for October 2014. Driscoll continues to find himself persona non grata at events such as the the Act Like Men Conference. Driscoll’s “difficult season” escalated on August 3, 2014 when approximately 80 ex-members of Mars Hill protested Driscoll’s misogyny, ongoing plagiarism allegations, and abusive tactics, as well as the church’s overall lack of accountability and financial t…

LDS Church Rescinds Hurtful Marriage Policy Without Apology

By Holly Welker

…concerns about its depiction and treatment of women. Moore told me that in October 2018, she had been interviewed about her discomfort with the temple by a woman with the title of “Researcher in the Correlation Research Division” who encouraged Moore to be “very open and honest about our feelings; there was no judgment about anything that we said.” The researcher had a four-page interview protocol that “targeted any issue people might have that wo…

Unquestioned Support for Israel Wasn’t Always the Way for Conservative Christians

By Amy Fallas

…rom the U.S. State Department, the number of displaced Palestinian persons numbered 725,000 by May 1949. Although Palestinian repatriation and compensation for property was required under the UN Partition Agreement of 1947 and UN Resolution 192, Israeli Foreign minister Moshe Sharett objected on the basis “that their [Palestinian] return would disturb the homogeneity of Israeli areas.” In response, Christian leaders in the Middle East petitioned t…

Will the Bishops’ Synod Open Doors for Women?

By Kate Childs Graham

…message at this stage is too lengthy. Archbishop Ravsi—the writer of the message—said his job would be “to take away, not to add.” When the Synod ends on October 26 we will see where the Church places women in the ministry of the Word….

Pastors Urged to Defy IRS to Defeat Evil, Hitlerian Obama

By Peter Montgomery

…aders hope that 1,500 pastors will take part in “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” on October 7 and tell their congregants that they must vote against President Obama and other “unbiblical” candidates. Today, publisher Steven Strang, anti-gay activist Rev. Jim Garlow, and too-radical-for-John-McCain pastor John Hagee participated in a conference call designed to either shame or inspire more pastors to take part. One context for the Pulpit Freedom Sunday proj…

Shockingly Tone-Deaf GOP Has Evangelical ‘Rabbi’ Pray for Pittsburgh Victims (Updated)

By Daniel Schultz

UPDATE, October 31, 11:15 a.m: According to reporting by NBC News, Messianic “rabbi” Loren Jacobs was stripped of his ordination over a decade ago. On Monday night, Vice President Mike Pence opened a campaign rally for Michigan congressional candidate Lena Epstein by inviting Loren Jacobs, a “Messianic Jewish rabbi,” to deliver an opening prayer in memory of the victims of the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh. Except Jacobs isn’t a rabbi, and…

Web 8.0: The Return of the Human

By Beatrice Marovich

…a time-out in the corner and more like flying—like cutting through a cool October sky with nothing below the feet? An absurd fantasy, surely, but Jaron Lanier (a legendary techie, so intimately involved with the birth of virtual reality he’s been called its “father”) is increasingly prophesying a digital world where such bodily urges are taken seriously. Writing for the Wall Street Journal last month, he suggested that the greatest “cognitive adv…

Ihram: Dressing for the King

By Amina Wadud

…iting for the visa process. The thing is, I still have the entire month of October and one week in November before I get on my way. I’ve passed more than 50 days on this blog and have exhausted the best of what I have to say. I think I’ll take a break from the daily routine, and submit one or two a week until I get a lot closer to my time for departure. Honestly, I am like most type A personalities: I get ahead of myself. This leaves me with littl…