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Pastor Convicted in Lisa Miller Child Kidnapping Case

By Peter Montgomery

…d that as he drove home from the border, Mr. Zodhiates tried to call a cellphone number registered to Liberty Counsel, an evangelical legal group. That cellphone number has sometimes been used by Mathew D. Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, dean of the Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Va., and a leader of Ms. Miller’s defense team. The RICO filed by Jenkins includes information that RD readers learned last year from Sarah Posner’s…

Review: Is the Religious Right Dying?

By Laura R. Olson

…“middle-to-left” may in fact be resurging in the United States. The proof will be in the pudding: will the Democratic presidential candidate succeed in attracting a broad faith-based coalition of voters in November? Even if the 2008 presidential election does rewrite conventional wisdom about the ideological nature of religion’s relationship to American politics, a nascent religious left will have challenges on its hands. For decades the religiou…

‘Murder Among the Mormons,’ Latest True Crime Doc From Netflix, Highlights Issues of Faith, Skepticism, and Authenticity

By Benjamin E. Park

…ves, broken homes, and devastated communities. This Wednesday, March 3, Netflix will release Murder Among the Mormons, a three-part documentary series that narrates the events surrounding Hofmann’s rise and fall, his bombs, and the investigative work that brought him to justice. Directed by Tyler Measom and Jared Hess, it’s a fast-paced production with an impressive amount of video coverage from the 1980s as well as substantial interviews with man…

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…urqa, and equality, it is interesting to note how many have to do directly with women or with gender identity and politics. He was concerned that using vaguely poetic or philosophical language might be seen as an attempt to mislead the readers. Otherwise, he should just stick to these button issues. Isn’t it curious that women are expected to address these topics no matter what their intellectual discipline? Failure to do so is tantamount to moral…

New Report: Angels & Aliens in Texas Schools

By Mark A. Chancey

…lities (full disclosure: I was compensated for my efforts, though I’m otherwise unaffiliated with TFN). I was interested in the extent to which schools succeeded in meeting the bar set for them by federal district courts; namely, that discussions of religion should neither promote nor disparage particular religious beliefs, nor favor religion or non-religion over the other. The First Amendment Center’s The Bible & Public Schools: A First Amendment…

Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In

By Sofi Hersher

…bmit CWC requests. You can imagine the potential difficulty of maneuvering within this system when dealing with a country like Syria (where ISIS is strongest), whose leadership and legal system is unstable at best. For what its worth, according to Twitter’s semi-annual Transparency Report, Syria has never submitted a removal request under the Country Withheld Content policy. Iraq submitted its first this year. This being said, individual users can…

Conservative Evangelical Eric Metaxas, Doing Twitter Theology, Claims ‘Jesus Was White’

By Eric Vanden Eykel

…er in which Metaxas is sometimes a conversation piece erupted quickly, and with wild speculation. Is he looking for attention? Being provocative? No one actually believes that Jesus is white, do they? Surely Metaxas is smart enough to know that this claim is easily refuted. But, it appears that he didn’t misspeak; he said what he meant to say. There are a few serious issues with this tweet. The most obvious, of course, is that its central claim is…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…n the 1970s, Tim LaHaye in the 1990s and into the 2000s. Then, you have growing numbers of self-proclaimed evangelicals completely rejecting the apocalypticism that had for so long given their movement its distinctive identity. The story of postwar evangelicals is this tension between the more respectable, more careful, more savvy, leaders and those who preached a radical populist apocalypticism that harkened back to the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. A…

Obama’s Gay Marriage Support Shocks Black Church

By Anthea Butler

…cks.” [See video, left.] Dyson’s no-prisoners approach to the subject had Twitter and Facebook on fire with both support and criticism of his prime-time message. In response, Rev. Bryant had a conference call with pastors around the nation to discuss how to respond to President Obama’s support on same-sex marriage in the hopes that black pastors would not turn away from the political process as a result of this development. Ms. Nelson, upset about…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…st Church. Sweeting didn’t shrink from his call by Topeka’s MCC despite knowing he’d be neighbors with Phelps. And far from thinking Topeka is Hell, Sweeting’s found more acceptance there among mainstream clergy than he has in other communities. “There is always an edge to any encounter with the Phelps’,” he says referring to his now routine run-ins. “Their harm is not physical. They may inspire others to do physical harm, but they do not do it th…