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This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…town girl. And she grew up in a small town church, one with a fondness for spiritual war and a wariness of cosmopolitanism. “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” Palin didn’t put that in her speech, a professional speechwriter did. But in her mouth, the fever that filled all of Pegler’s words becomes the spirit, an imaginary municipality, Smalltown, U.S.A., becomes a site of rhetorical pilgrimage, an inv…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…or a Suburban. Yet McCain supplies no wake-up call, no re-awakening of his spirit to explicate his substitution of Sunday affections. He offers no specifications of the kind of Christ that pressed him from a the Book of Common Prayer to the Baptist Faith and Message. Nor, as mentioned above, has he shown the increased piety of the convert. When asked how often he attends church McCain says, “not as often as I should.” When asked whether he has par…

A Palin Pastor Primer

By Esther Kaplan

…lly, is a manifestation of what’s going on in this unseen world called the spirit world.” On Palin’s election as governor: This was the result of a “prophetic call” by another pastor at the church, who prayed for her to win. “[He made] a prophetic declaration and there unfolds the kingdom of God, you know.” From 2002 on: Wasilla Bible Church, Pastor Larry Kroon When Palin ran for lieutenant governor in 2002, she switched Wasilla churches, and bega…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…nces of genuine satyagraha among the Jews, instances showing a strength of spirit in which there was no question of bartering their rights or of being bowed down, and where neither force nor cunning was used to escape the consequences of their behavior. Such actions, however, exerted apparently not the slightest influence on their opponents. All honor indeed to those who displayed such strength of soul! But I cannot recognize herein a watchword fo…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…a mode of thought which sees alleged physical and behavioral pathology as spiritually based: “What was of concern to racists was… a degenerate spirit that was dangerous for society, and it was a moral degeneracy that wasn’t visible.” The core of Heschel’s critique is that racists assert that demonized groups have different, diseased spirits or souls. Pastor John Hagee has ingratiated himself to some Jews and made a career of claiming that Jews oc…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…laims God told her, “the stupor and the slumber and the secular humanistic spirits that have bound My people in this nation shall start to uproot.” In early 2007, she claimed that God told her He was preparing, “to pour out from heaven the ferocious fire of my spirit” on the West Coast of America—a “fresh new breath upon California” and not, Alec insisted, a mere repeat of the 1906 Azusa Street Revival. She said God promised a “cleansing” of Los A…

What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

By Andrew Murphy

…storm of controversy over the comments by Barack Obama’s senior pastor and spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright (and the address on race that the comments prompted Obama to deliver on March 18) have stirred up a hornet’s nest of accusation and recrimination. But if Obama’s speech on race is as historically significant as many of us think, then perhaps the credit ought to go, in part, to Rev. Wright, for (unwittingly, to be sure) prompting the co…

Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…began to set, hundreds of Tibetans gathered for prayers and speeches in a sea of traditional dress and the yellow of Tibetan flags. Majora Carter, one of two American torchbearers to flash a Tibetan flag with the Torch drew loud applause with her promise: “The spirit that was in it is going to China!” For some, the day’s events were satisfying. “We wanted to chase them away,” said Thuptan Donyo, leader of a San Jose Tibetan Buddhist center, referr…

Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right

By Robert P. Jones

…represents not simply a broader agenda but also a significantly different spirit and worldview. Last week, Dr. David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University and author of The Future of Faith in American Politics: The Public Witness of the Evangelical Center, talked compellingly about the arrival of the evangelical center at a standing-room-only presentation at Third Way, a progressive think tank in Wash…

Why I Am a “Cuomosexual”

By Donna Schaper

…We still want to be smart about the material while being enchanted by the spiritual. We are not going back to the time when we converted people in the soup kitchen so they could eat (are you saved?) so much as we are going forward toward an opening levered by the Holy Spirit and drawing us more deeply toward justice. From that place, we don’t really care if we get reelected or not. Or at least we care less. Politics are changing—and once again we…