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Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…tores, Wal-Mart, and secular bookstores—some time around the first week of August. But here’s where the trouble begins. In the run-up to its publication, Mansfield did an interview with Ben Smith, a writer for Politico.com (the online wing of the Politico news organization). In the column, titled “Bush Backer Pens pro-Obama Book,” Smith writes that the book’s “tone ranges from gently critical to gushing, and the author defends Obama—and even his c…

The Trials of Janie Spahr

By Richard A. Lindsay

…’s ministry, at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Napa, California, starting August 24. Janie Spahr is a grandmother with a shock of short gray hair and piercing blue eyes that simultaneously express pastoral kindness and prophetic fire. She is officially retired from the ministry, but continues to find fascinating ways to spend that retirement—this is her second case in three years involving marriages of same-gender couples. The last case ended up…

Failing at Politics, Bishops Turn to Prayer

By Peter Montgomery

….” The explicitly political part of the strategy is another “Fortnight for Freedom,” which is being planned in late June and early July 2013. The “key issues” it will address are potential Supreme Court rulings on marriage; the August 1, 2013 deadline for religious organizations to comply with the HHS contraception requirement; and “Religious liberty concerns in other areas, such as immigration, adoption, and humanitarian services.” Mark your cale…

Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

On August 28, 1963, King delivered his most famous address, the “Dream” speech. Back in Birmingham a little over two weeks later, King’s dream turned into a nightmare. On the morning of September 15, 1963, a group of nearly thirty black children sat in a basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church, awaiting the closing prayers of a sermon entitled “The Love That Forgives.” Upstairs, adult black congregants gathered for the upcoming service. They h…

Tony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…I was during the entire Bush administration,” Perkins told reporters last August. “There’s not a Sunday that goes by that I don’t have people in the congregation that will grab me and say, ‘How’s the president doing? Did you see him this week? I’m praying for him every day and I’m just so angry at the media and how they’re attacking him.’” This sense of the president and his evangelical supporters as part of a beleaguered faithful remnant to Amer…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…Polakow-Suransky devotes the book’s epilogue to the Israel-South Africa comparison. He acknowledges that the Israel-South Africa “apartheid analogy is an imperfect one… Unlike white South Africa and other colonial regimes, Zionists never banned miscegenation or kept the people they had conquered as servants in their homes.” But he concludes with a dire warning: “the apartheid analogy may be inexact today, but it won’t be forever. The Palestinian p…

Dispatches from the Workplace: Bishops Lead the Cry to Stop Workplace Raids

By Kim Bobo

…ptions: they could plead guilty to knowingly using a false Social Security number and the government would withdraw the more serious charge of “aggravated identity theft.” By pleading guilty, they would serve five months in jail and be deported without a hearing. If they pleaded not guilty, they could wait in jail for six to eight months for a trial without the right to bail. If they won at trial, they would be deported. If they lost, they would g…

Why Al Mohler offered to “Host” Kentucky’s U.S. Senate Race Debates

By Mike Greer

In an August 4 press release, Al Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, issued a call for evangelical Christians to become more assertive in Kentucky’s 2014 U.S. Senate race. He also proffered a detailed and non-negotiable bid that would effectively coopt the up-coming debate(s) between Mitch McConnell and his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes. Mohler insists that the two candidates attend three “…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion and preserve tolerance in Indonesian society during the NU congress in August 2015, he has been noticeably silent since. Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan has said Jokowi is still “listening to the people’s voice,” and the government is not in a hurry to address the intolerance issue. This failure to intervene, however, appears to have emboldened the voices of intolerance. CSIS quotes Sidney Jone…

Glenn Beck’s Political Theology

By Daniel Schultz

…et made. If you want to know what’s been going on the long, hot and stupid August, look no farther. The God of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck has established a society of order — that imagined America of George Washington and Robert E. Lee hard at prayer and limiting the government to bathtub size — and they’ll be dad-blasted if some uppity negro (I beg your pardon, an uppity secret Muslim) and a bunch of Commies are going to upset the apple cart. I s…