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Latest Supporters of Messianic Jews: Duck Dynasty

By Sarah Posner

…announced the Duck Dynasty appearances in an email today, and its website promotes the evening, called “Inexpressible Joy,” as light-hearted entertainment: Spend a fun filled evening with the Duck Commander himself, Phil Robertson, and other stars from the mega hit show, A&E’s Duck Dynasty. They’ll share heartwarming and hysterical stories about filming the show, what goes on behind the scenes, their lives, their faith, their family, and ducks. T…

High Holidays Watch: Seth Rogen’s Latest Highlights the ‘American Pickle’ of Living with Death

By Shaul Magid

Warning: Spoilers ahead I dare say that nobody decides to watch the new Seth Rogen film An American Pickle as inspiration for the High Holidays. Like most people, my wife and I viewed it as a much needed diversion from the combination of a global pandemic and the heated political climate. Plus, I just like Seth Rogen. And yet I came away from this zany dark comedy with a feeling that its release in the Hebrew month of Elul was no accident. Putt…

‘Murder Among the Mormons,’ Latest True Crime Doc From Netflix, Highlights Issues of Faith, Skepticism, and Authenticity

By Benjamin E. Park

…ces regarding what his forged documents would say. While his first forgery promoted traditional faith, his later texts became increasingly unorthodox. In 1981, for instance, he presented an 1844 blessing from Joseph Smith that delegated his son, Joseph Smith III, the faith’s true successor, rather than Brigham Young. Other documents similarly challenged traditional narratives, adding fuel to a growing fire over how to handle the faith’s past. No d…

Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

…his is exactly what the OCA intends to do with academics, according to its latest encyclical. Totalitarianism, authoritarianism, fearful purity partitioning—we could call this latest move by the OCA hierarchy many things. One thing is certain, however: In allowing Christian nationalism and reactionary traditionalism to gain a foothold in the OCA, the Bishops have seemingly made themselves vulnerable to the contagion of far-right politics, a toxic…

QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement

By Adam Willems

…tax-exempt status from any group “which has a substantial interest in the promotion of… power derived from evil spirits.” I want that in every US History textbook. This is your Congress! This is who we let make laws! In the year 1985, the entirety of the US Senate was like, “Oh sure, we’re not going to fund Satan.” The idea that tax brackets are going to eliminate witches— Yeah, that’s how you do it! You know, like garlic or daylight for vampires…

Nebraska Latest State to Declare Open Season on Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

Just when you thought the anti-abortion extremism couldn’t get any more, well, extreme. Earlier this month, Rep. Phil Jensen, a South Dakota Republican lawmaker, had proposed an amendment to a bill to expand the legal definition of justifiable homicide by adding language that said a homicide is permissible if committed by a person while resisting an attempt to harm that person’s “unborn child or the unborn child of that person’s spouse, partner,…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

The following is the final installment in a breezy three-part series on the ubiquitous “In God We Trust” motto, which is featured prominently in the Project Blitz playbook. The first installment told the story of the motto’s sketchy origin; the second examined the legality of its presence in a secular nation; and this third one reveals the coordinated battle waged by an emboldened Christian nationalist movement. Read now or download the trilogy f…

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

Yesterday at the New York Review of Books, Garry Wills used his recollections of a decades-old dialogue with a Mormon college student to raise concerns about the way a President Mitt Romney might regard, interpret, and apply the US Constitution. According to Wills, an 18-year-old Mormon student once told him that: “Like his fellow Mormons, he held that the Declaration of Independence is divinely inspired—in that sense, it is part of Mormon Script…

Latest Book on Evangelical ‘Extremism’ Reflects Pervasive Tendency to Beat Up on Judaism to Save Jesus

By Greg Carey

…have soiled their witness. In the process, they’ve stoked social division, promoted a would-be dictator, and driven millions away from the church. Especially young adults. A wonderful work of journalism, Alberta’s book also passes along one of Christianity’s most dangerous habits: a pernicious, albeit unintentional, anti-Judaism. Alberta has composed a deeply personal lament. The son of an evangelical pastor who embraced radicalization, he sympath…

Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse

By Spencer Dew

Revelations abound. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires crowd the news, alongside genocide, terrorism, and rogue state tests of intercontinental missiles and the nuclear warheads with which to arm them. Headlines offer either a string of senseless horrors or an array of signs and warnings. As catastrophe births desire for dramatic change, so, too, the chaos of existence prompts in the human mind a search for patterns, a rage for order. Thus, d…