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Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…res were fervent and loyal Protestants, Jews, and Catholics. The challenge Europeans faced after the Reformation and the subsequent century of religious wars was how a religiously plural society could live in peace and harmony given that few countries were left with a religiously homogeneous population. We are familiar with the secular enlighteners’ dual answer to this challenge. In the idea of “natural law” (equality before the law, right to prop…

The Religious Education of John McCain

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in which John Hagee preached that God used Hitler to force the Jews out of Europe back to Israel. Land says the controversy showed how little McCain knew the constituency he was trying to woo. “Both of these guys hold positions which anyone who knows evangelical life well would know would be problematic for someone running for national office,” Land says. “I think McCain and his advisers just didn’t know the lay of the land.” McCain eventually rej…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…ing everywhere at about the same time; from Africa to Washington, DC, from Europe to New York City, from YouTube to iTunes. Over the years, he has spoken at the United Nations, the World Economic Forum in Davos, the African Union, the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, TIME’s Global Health Summit, and numerous congresses around the world. In late-May, according to a press release posted on Christian Newswire, “Ov…

Creationism v. Integrationism

By Arri Eisen

…Atlas of Creation, unsolicited, to hundreds of scientists and teachers in Europe and North America. The Atlas, available online, is full of plain English and nice illustrations, containing many of the usual attacks on Darwin heard from Christian fundamentalists in this country. The author does go a bit further than most, making the intriguing assertion that all science since Darwin—including the fossil record, genetics, and the like—has successfu…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…o Hitler’s military conquest of Europe: Like Adolf Hitler, who overran his European neighbors, those who favor homosexual marriage are determined to make it legal, regardless of the democratic processes that stand in the way. Rather than saying explicitly that equal rights activists are violent, Dobson relies on his reader to remember that Hitler rose to power by burning down the Reichstag, building concentration camps, and carrying out the indust…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…and declines in eight. However, the net effect has been an increase in the number of states in the moderate category. In this sense, the Christian Right has been ‘spreading out’ across the states, especially in the South, Midwest, and West. Thus, Christian conservatives have become a staple of politics nearly everywhere.” In short, John McCain’s personal preferences were irrelevant: his route to the presidency was only viable with the help of Chri…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…ncludes live prayer and revival events from the apostolic movement) across Europe, Asia, and Africa. And although God TV can only be seen in the United States on the satellite provider DirecTV or the Internet, the network is notable here not because of the audience it reaches, but because of the growing movement it depicts. Like its most well-known rival, the US-based Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), God TV broadcasts the programming of the pop…

Martin Luther & the Mass Media

By Svend White

…s for centuries. Not so long ago, Jews were routinely portrayed in popular European culture as bizarre semi-humans (hence the fondness for the image of in medieval and even early modern literature of Jewish men who inexplicably travel the world astride goats). Sadly, for others these unsubtle insinuations of demonic ties weren’t explicit enough, so Jews were regular portrayed as freaks of nature, such as “bearded he-goats” even people so animal-li…

Are the Culture Wars Over? Look at the States

By Sarah Posner

…o gave America some confidence that the Allies would ultimately prevail in Europe. That confidence allowed the American public to shift more of its attention to the Pacific Theater. Popular magazines such as National Geographic began to publish more maps and articles about the Pacific because Americans suddenly wanted to know a lot more about Saipan and Leyte Gulf. The same sort of shift is happening now for the left in America’s long-running cult…

How Not To Respond to Haiti

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…came intensely and horrifically violent in the 1600s, inspiring increasing numbers of European colonists to flee the Old World and to cross the Atlantic. So bad had things become that the great “rights revolutions”—beginning with the so-called Glorious Revolution in England in 1688, and culminating in the French Revolution in 1789—allied themselves to various degrees with the cause of “secular politics.” If religious conflict was destined to be so…