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A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…set and transplanted to the big city, co-habitating with my boyfriend of almo*]}*st three years, unable to remember the last time I’d darkened a church’s doorstep. To avoid the dreaded question, while still establishing a basic sense of belonging in the dozen or so churches I visited, I set down some rules of engagement. When the assembled faithful joined in song, I’d sing along. (My favorite hymn, Ressuscita-me, or “Revive me,” begs God for a miracl…

Why Are We Drawn to Horror?

By Mathias Clasen

…us. Why Horror Seduces Mathias Clasen Oxford UP Halloween, 2017 What’s the most important take-home message for readers? I think there are two important take-home messages: One, horror entertainment isn’t just mindless junk. No, the horror genre is ancient and universal, and horror stories serve important psychological, social, and moral functions for us. They give us insight into the darker extremes of our emotional register; they teach us about…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…to join General Lance Wallnau in this great army to take back America!” Demonstrating that the tour was not limited to what happens in the tent, Bramnick left early in order to meet with “Hispanic pastors” at Vida Church in Mesa, Arizona—a strategic hub in their electoral mobilization scheme. Similarly, General Wallnau told another gathering at Vida Church, on March 26, 2024 (translated into Spanish by Pastor Benjamin Diaz) that while evangelists…

‘Calling’ Rick Warren to Task on Anti-Gay Ugandan Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t Maddow called the “Kill the Gays Bill,” on her nightly MSNBC show late last month, Lisa Darden knew she needed to make a phone call. Darden, a filmmaker and talent agent, had been interviewing conservative evangelical Christian leaders and getting a behind-the-scenes look at the religious right for the past several years for her soon to be released movie, For Such a Time as This. The documentary seeks to bridge the gap between anti-gay Christian…

From The Virgin Mary to a Housewife in Queens: Inside The Seer of Bayside

By Joseph Laycock

…perspective so that the strange could be rendered familiar. 2. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? I want readers to think critically about why some religious movements and institutions seem “normal” and others seem strange. Most people regard the Baysiders as a “fringe” Catholic group. But from the Baysiders’ perspective, they are the normal Catholics and it is everyone else who has deviated from tradition. In thinking about…

“God Created You”: Bishop Supports Gay Ugandans, Defies Death Threats

By Jocelyn Edwards

…Them,” it said. Kato’s murder frightened Senyonjo to the extent that he almo*]}*st didn’t want to go to the memorial for his friend and former colleague. “At first, I thought I did not want to go out of doors today but then I thought I wanted to get to the funeral,” he said. Senyonjo received a call informing him of the murder at around midnight the day the activist died; the news kept him awake almo*]}*st all night. “I hardly had slept, but I was determ…

Intensive Care: Preachers’ Daughters Episode Five Recap

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nterest, Demotius, and his pals. (Settle down. The pictures were perfectly modest and were for his mix tape. Incidentally, how wonderful is it that kids today still use the term “mix tape”?) While she’s out and completely unreachable by phone, her dad, Ken, goes into the hospital with breathing difficulties and is admitted to intensive care. Taylor finally gets the message, is stricken with remorse and concern, prays for her dad’s healing, and res…

Aliens Are Fattening Us Up For the Rapture

By Mark Hulsether

…ve in Both Bigfoot and the Bible?” Apparently CNN’s people—its authors and most of the people who have commented on its article thus far—have not been not been channel-surfing enough. At least not in Tennessee. Just two weeks ago, on October 1, 2010, Hal Lindsey (author of the grand-daddy of all Left Behind books, The Late Great Planet Earth), devoted his television show to this very question: “Are UFOs Real?” If you missed the show, here it is on…

Satanic FOIA Reveals Deep Confusion About 1st Amendment

By Joseph Laycock

…ld force the Illuminati to reveal their Luciferian plans to the world. But most callers essentially argued that the Ten Commandments should be allowed and the Satan monument forbidden because the framers of the Constitution founded the United States as an explicitly Christian nation. There was a palpable cognitive dissonance as constituents tried to formulate legal arguments that reconciled their ideas of America as both a Christian nation based o…

“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…quickly climbed into their cars at two o’clock in the morning and escaped. Most of the rest of the city joined them, he said. Now they are waiting in the camp, hoping for ISIS to leave the town so they can return. It was a story repeated by dozens of refugees that I met this summer in refugee camps and makeshift shelters in Kurdistan and southeastern Turkey. They seemed puzzled about who ISIS was and what they wanted. Most used the term “Daesh” fo…