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John Calvin at 500: From Theocrats to Marxists, Calvin’s Vision of Joy and Cruelty Left Complex Legacy

By Paula M. Cooey

…dent, go on to pore over almost every word the man wrote—thousands and thousands of pages of scriptural commentary and sermons in addition to several revisions of the Institute—not only in translation, but in Latin and Middle French, only to write my dissertation on someone else. The love affair has nevertheless persisted through the rest of my intellectual life, even as I berate him for his views on women, his conception of the Atonement, his fie…

Religious Right to Newsweek: ‘Woe to [You] for Even Printing This’

By Bill Berkowitz

…Gene Autry?). This opened the way for darling Rudolph to once again guide Santa’s sleigh.” (As might be expected, Fox News was on top of the story.) RD Tidbits Religious Groups Experience Layoffs and Cutbacks: It is inevitable that in this time of economic hard-times, the recession would hit the religious sector. In addition to the more than 200 laid off in mid-November at James Dobson’s Focus on the Family (about 15% of its staff), earlier this…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…uthern Baptist Convention, recently uncovered by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News, we should pause to take stock of the culpability of the broader conservative, mostly white evangelical subculture—not just churches in other evangelical denominations, but also educational institutions, parachurch ministries, parallel information and entertainment industries, and political lobbying organizations. As I have argued at RD and elsewher…

Baldwin Brother’s Apocalyptic Comic

By Gabriel Mckee

…e most complex thing about his preachy book The Unusual Suspect are his truly nonsensical extended metaphors. (The one about the football field, the pit bull, the steak, and the herd of cattle—that’s a doozy.) BOOM! will be releasing a preview book at Comicon San Diego later this month. In the meantime, they’ve released the preview issue’s cover and a sample page, which suggests that the book will start involve with some heavy Katrinasploitation….

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…ernor as the running mate of possible gubernatorial nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders. This is suggested by NACL’s relationship with Sanders’ dad, former Governor Mike Huckabee. Rapert not only claims to have consulted with him before founding NACL, but Huckabee has also spoken at the two NACL conferences, serves on the advisory board, and even made a promotional video for the inaugural conference in 2020. As important as Huckabee’s blessing may be,…

Holy Grail is Found!

By Gwynne Watkins

…and professor-with-flexible-leave-time Harrison Ford make their way to the sanctuary of an ancient temple, where they’re given a test: choose the real Grail from a collection of fancy cups. Glover chooses the fanciest one, drinks from it, and is disintegrated, like so: Then our pal Indy selects the smallest, dustiest vessel, saying, “This is the cup of a carpenter.” He uses his cup to save Sean Connery’s life, the Nazi lady dies, and a thousand se…

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…

Episcopal Church Removes Bishop Who Split Following LGBT Inclusion Vote

By Elizabeth Drescher

…arolina is the fifth to succeed from the Church, following the Dioceses of San Joaquin in central California; Fort Worth, Texas; Quincy, Illinois; and Pittsburgh, PA. A pastoral letter from Jefferts Schori to members of the Diocese, however, made clear that The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, as with other dioceses voting to secede, “continues to be a constituent part of The Episcopal Church, even if a number of its leaders have departed.” S…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…ition and Focus on the Family, and Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church in San Diego. Also present were Rick Scarborough, founder and president of Vision America, and David Barton, president of WallBuilders; both men have fashioned entire careers out of their denials that the founders ever intended church and state to be separate entities. The meeting (as reported on the website) contained more than the usual over-the-top Religious Right rhetoric…

LGBT Mormons Ask in Historic Temple: “If they could just see us, don’t you think they would change their minds?”

By Joanna Brooks

…Tears flowed freely when the Affirmation choir of gay and lesbian Mormons sang the stirring Mormon classic “The Spirit of God Like a Fire is Burning”—the very hymn our ancestors sang to dedicate the Kirtland temple 175 years ago, in 1836, on a day when, as the folklore goes, neighboring villages reported seeing a cloud of fire hovering over Kirtland. Standing in the sunlit white interiors of the temple, Liam, a young gay LDS man who had travelled…