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Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, sparked protest after she “showered praises on President Robert Mugabe for resisting the imposition of ‘un-cultural’ practices on the country by foreigners.” According to New Zimbabwe, Chiriseri had been asked to give a prayer during celebrations of the country’s independence: But the visibly excited official went far beyond a prayer, giving a lengthy sermon which was full of Mugabe praises and never short of…

Infanticide Still Not a Growing Movement: 30 Years of Pro-Life Fudging

By Daniel Silliman

…e and pass on the flimsiest evidence of a pro-infanticide movement as fact pre-dates Facebook. It predates Fox. It’s actually as old as the pro-life movement. In 1982, one of the philosophical architects of the religious right was reporting wild rumors of infanticide as fact. Francis Schaeffer, who “wakened the cultural consciousness of the evangelical community,” in the words of the director of the Francis Schaeffer Collection at Southeastern Bap…

New Poll: Evangelicals Backing Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…the new Pew Research Poll focusing on white evangelicals. “Where’s the surprise?” he asked. There is no surprise. Not much, anyway. What we have here is a case of Lucy managing to pull the football out from under poor old Charlie Brown, again. We go through this every four years: there’s a flurry of articles wondering Is This The End Of The Religious Right?, pointing to the emergence of a new liberal wing of the evangelical movement, or declaring…

The Harlot Shall Be Burned with Fire: Biblical Literalism in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

By Sarah Sentilles

…ssages from Leviticus—21:9 for example: The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire—and enacts them on women’s bodies. On Jewish women’s bodies. His actions represent literalism taken to its terrifying end. The killer burns women, stones them, cuts off their arms, cuts apart their bodies. His crimes are described in vivid detail and, just in case words don’t suff…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…ld have negated anything in our [CT] article.” This shouldn’t come as a surprise since a meeting was held between the two prior to CT’s publication of the original article in which the Post attempted to present evidence that contradicts CT’s findings. According to Olsen, who noted that his understanding was that the meeting was off the record until the Post made it public, representatives of the Post and Olivet University wanted “to try to get CT…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

…ibitions against “sterile” sex within marriage—that is, sex that could not produce offspring—such as sex during pregnancy, no longer held. If some limited forms of non-procreative sex within marriage were now considered licit and sex was acknowledged to have more than one purpose in marriage, this raised the question of whether in general each and every act of intercourse within marriage necessarily had to be procreative. The second reason many th…

Feeding on the Faithful: How Supernatural Thinking Empowered the Third Reich

By Eric Kurlander

…; because of the sheer scale of the Second World War; and because of the unprecedented number of documents preserved in hundreds of archives and libraries across dozens of countries, this is obviously not the case. The second is that there’s little to no reality behind popular cultural representations of the Nazi supernatural. While many of these representations are exaggerated or erroneous, many others have some basis in reality. In the case of H…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…working class and middle class with a significant stratum of middle class professionals—professors, lawyers, chiropractors, etc.—as their leaders. And, these are not a string of disconnected organizations sharing only a common set of hatreds. Rather, this is a single movement, with a common set of leaders and interlocking memberships that hold a complete and sometimes sophisticated ideology. Further, the White nationalist movement today is organi…

‘Miracle’ in Manila

By Jonathan T Chow

…priests on stage along with former president Corazon Aquino, all of whom expressed their praise for, and support of, Lozada and asked the congregation to pray for him. On February 18, Ateneo de Manila, my host university and a Jesuit institution, held a special “Truth and Accountability Mass” in recognition of the recent events. The Mass took place at the Church of the Gesu, a soaring modernist chapel with sharp triangular lines suggesting the Tri…

The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized: Taking Resistance Beyond the Spiritual Industrial Complex

By Andrea R. Jain

…that guarantees both freedom of and from religion. Hence, I am certain the number of self-proclaimed “spiritual but not religious” people at the marches on January 21st was significant. But, more importantly, I wonder what those spiritual people will do now to resist the oppressive policies and efforts of the Trump administration? It is not enough to raise their signs at Women’s Marches, lower their bodies into downward dog at Lolë “peace” events,…