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Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…for a meeting in Providence’s new Freemason-themed hotel, I got a surprise phonecall from Father Isaac, the cassocked gentle giant who serves as Eastern Orthodox chaplain there. We hadn’t known each other well while I was a student, but I’d always liked him. Upon hearing I was in town, he thought he’d ring me up, and what followed was certainly the longest conversation we’d ever had together. He wished me well, but much more, he thanked God in a d…

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…

Atheists are Americans Too, Vuvuzelas, Etc.

By Michael J. Altman

…ork on scripture memory? There’s an app for that. You can even use your iPhone to tweet the latest execution news, like the Utah Attorney General. But for others the internet is a place for anti-religious rage. Over at the Huffington Post, they have debuted a new discussion between religion and science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science continues to seek dialogue between science and religion. University of Colorado psyc…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…hey believe lies in store during the Obama administration, nevertheless, a number of groups took part in activities marking the anniversary, and others are planning a series of actions and longer-lasting campaigns. The Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person hosted a forum of original commentary from a group of pro-life scholars and public policy experts who addressed the question of whether the pro-life movement has “failed.” (All c…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…al gestures toward peace in the Middle East, we also saw a remarkably high number of attacks on Islam, on Iran, and on Arab Americans. There was the Republican outing of Barack Obama as a ‘secret Muslim’ and the promotion of this theory to both elderly Jews and conservative Christians. One survey, released in October, showed that at a sizable portion of the Texas voters polled actually believed Obama to be a Muslim. The other glaring example was t…

Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…troversy, lawmakers from several states pushed this sample legislation. In Florida, Missouri, South Carolina and Alabama, the bills failed. But in June, following overwhelming support in the state House and Senate, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana became the first governor to sign an “academic freedom” bill into law. Observers on both sides of the issue are now waiting for the first school district in the state to adopt a curriculum based on this new lan…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…uthors like Rick Warren, and Christianity Today magazine. She profiles the Florida megachurch leader Joel Hunter, who comments that “you have to come to a certain stature…to even be on the same playing field with Jim Dobson or Pat Robertson” (32). Alongside FitzGerald’s core argument that centrists have bulked up enough to go toe-to-toe on this field, she notes the religious right’s disarray in the wake of Jerry Falwell’s death and their difficult…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…a healing revival of the Canadian evangelist Todd Bentley, from Lakeland, Florida, which Charisma dubbed the “Lakeland Healing Outpouring.” During the revival, which has been ongoing for more than a month, Wendy Alec claimed to have received a prophecy from God that “THIS is just the warm-up party—for what you shall see in the coming days shall even make these days pale—with what I have up my sleeve.” Alec also claimed a few weeks ago that Jesus…

The Sad Incoherence of Jeb’s Abortion Position

By Patricia Miller

…self “probably the most pro-life governor in modern times.” As governor of Florida, he signed a bill creating “Choose Life” license plates to fund controversial anti-abortion “pregnancy counseling” centers and intervened in two cases to prevent a mentally disabled rape victim and a 13-year-old girl who was a ward of the state from having abortions. He also signed a parental consent law, a TRAP law placing strict regulation on abortion clinics, and…

The Radical Background of Harry Reid’s GOP Opponent

By Julie Ingersoll

…s, but to Republicans; leaders have criticized Sarah Palin for calling on tea partiers to choose one of the major parties. The party is officially on the ballot in at least 17 states including Florida, where Bernie DeCastro, an ex-con turned prison minister, its candidate running for U.S. Senate, thinks tea party favorite Marco Rubio is too liberal. …