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Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…bout design and architecture that produced two eerie episodes this year. “O-U-I-J-A” offers a fascinating and textured history of the iconic game, weaving together design, cognitive science, and American religious history. “Ten Thousand Years” documents the federal government’s attempt to label an underground nuclear waste repository that will continue to be dangerous for 10,000 years. Are there universal symbols of death and prohibition? Download…

Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…s white, heterosexual, male power to lift those who live in the world of no-communication, the world of the unheard.” “Here I am, a gay, black male, born and raised in the South,” Jackson continued, “and John sought me out. I love him.” Dorhauer’s election was endorsed by 85% of the delegates. The UCC’s democratic expression of Christianity is a far cry from more conservative and authoritarian forms of church governance. The General Synod delegate…

Rebuilding the Wall of Separation: A Progressive Discussion on Church & State

By Bruce Ledewitz

…secularization, a secular progressive majority is still impossible, and a new two-part approach is needed—one that first admits that there is no political wall of separation. Voters must be allowed, without criticism, to propose policies based on religious belief. But, when government speaks and acts, messages must be universal. The burden is on religious believers, therefore, to explain public references like “under God” in universal terms. For…

Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

By Chrissy Stroop

…s that religious minorities and the nonreligious be granted more and better-quality media representation, and that we be given a seat at the table in order to express our views on religion and society in our own voices. For many of us, those views include condemnation of proselytizing. I hope I live to see the day when proselytizing is widely considered socially unacceptable in American polite society. But if I only live to see the day that the Bo…

Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation

By Neil J. Young

…usinessmen imbued American corporations with religious meaning and how free-enterprise ideology and market-based solutions in turn shaped 20th-century evangelical institutions. RD’s Neil J. Young recently spoke with Grem about the book. _________ As you point out, we have a robust history of how conservative evangelicals shaped American politics in the 20th century, but the history of evangelicals and corporate capitalism has been less examined. H…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…ne sooner than later), RaptureReady.com’s front page features a slew of bad-news articles with headlines that almost make you wish for the End Times to come already! A savvy entrepreneur, Strandberg has bought up a number of Internet addresses including AntiAntichrist, Tribulationus and RaptureMe, in case RaptureReady.com crashes from the traffic after the Rapture. As of November 19, The Rapture Index stood at 159 down from a 2008 high of 170 and…

Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…Indonesian parliamentarians The Family organized around the oil-rich, anti-communist Indonesian dictator Suharto, who they predictably declared a “man of God.” Suharto, a Muslim who prayed to the American Jesus when Family politicians and oil execs came around, then killed half a million of his own citizens. So what is The Family’s response—at least he prays. One Family organizer who prayed often with Suharto reported back to congressional member…

Evidence Strongly Suggests Trump Was Collaborating with Christian Nationalist Leaders Before January 6th

By Matthew D. Taylor and Bradley Onishi

…This sector of Christianity, which evolved out of Pentecostalism in the mid-to-late 20th century, characteristically resists denominational ties and conventional governance and is one of the fastest growing segments of American and global Christianity. It’s guided by a supernaturalized spirituality where miracles are believed to occur with great regularity and where the words of respected prophets are taken as coming directly from the mouth of God…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…have allowed Ukrainian citizens to have the long-awaited privilege of visa-free travel in the European Union,” wrote Lev Golinkin in a Foreign Policy article entitled “Ukraine Chooses Homophobia Over Europe.” The reason behind the legislation’s resounding defeat? A provision preventing discrimination against gays in the workplace. This provision, which is a precondition for visa-free travel set by the EU, ignited a vociferous outcry, and ultimate…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…the right that Obama might lure some evangelical voters away from the less-than-exhilirating McCain camp, these are apparently fighting words. In a blog post on June 17 titled “An Internet Mugging,” Mansfield defends himself, insisting that he was not “gushing” over Obama and that he had not “defended Jeremiah Wright”: “I have explained him. I gave an overview of his life, explained black liberation theology (asking experts to check my work) and…