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Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…y planes, but this is the first time I’ve been on a plane where 50% of the seats are business- and first-class. Sorta gives you an idea who comes to the Kingdom, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike: big business. Okay, so the flight is not exclusive to hajjis, but when we arrive they announce for us hajjis to remain on the plane and disembark last. Let the other passengers, many whom will transfer to domestic flights, get off first. Well, if the r…

Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World: An Excerpt

By Michael J. Baigent

…ound with their perverted idea of a heavenly realm filled with comfortable seats from which those who have been “saved” can eat their popcorn and watch the slaughter below. It all sounds like some deranged fantasy based on a dim memory of the Roman arena, for there is much blood in the message and so very little mercy. Again Christian fundamentalist preacher John Hagee does not mince his words on this issue: The first time He came to Earth, Jesus…

Freedom Federation Summit: A Sleepy Awakening

By Sarah Posner

…ast night’s activities took place inside Thomas Road Baptist Church, which seats several thousand, but only drew a few hundred spectators, and when I first arrived there were only a few dozen. This could not have made many of the first night’s top speakers — including the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land, and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli — very happy. Some of today’s activities are…

Palin Goes ‘Hopey-Changey,’ But Don’t Call it Political

By Julie Ingersoll

…e board the speakers emphasized electoral politics: the need to win enough seats to overturn the health care bill; they invoked “states’ rights” and the 10th Amendment in support of Arizona’s controversial immigration law even as they insisted that “we’re not supposed to be talking politics.” Palin even reiterated her thoroughly discredited assertion that “Obamacare” will result in “death panels” and therefore “must be overturned.” At each point t…

The Real Context Of The “Taliban Dan” Ad

By Julie Ingersoll

…we had to become a majority of the members. And that meant we needed more seats. And in Luke 1:52 it says, “He hath put down the mighty form their seats. . . .” And then I thought about being Speaker. . . . I began praying Psalm 140 verse 11: “Let not an evil speaker be established. . . .” In 1983 he began praying “a hedge of thorns of protection around the voters of the district that [he] wanted to represent that they would believe the truth.” …

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…new Islamism emerging across the Middle East. Youth Protest, Islamists Win Seats But the Arab Spring did not begin as an Islamist movement. It began on 17 December 2010, when a Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, was harassed by local police who prohibited him from selling his merchandise and added insult to injury by slapping and spitting at him. Following that incident, he doused himself with gasoline and publicly set himself on fire. He d…

“We (some of) the People” Florida Governor Rick Scott and the Tea Party

By Julie Ingersoll

…tea party turnout for the event was not impressive, even though some Scott supporters seemed to believe that God’s hand was at work. But with all the empty seats, Scott would have looked better letting those “protesters” fill the empty seats….

The Auspicious Timing of Glenn Beck’s Zeal for Zion

By Shalom Goldman

… Courage won’t have trouble drawing a crowd as all 600 of the $5,000 prime seats have all sold out. On the July 11, Beck visited Jerusalem to lay the groundwork for this year’s events and to speak with Knesset members allied with the Christian Right. In his conversation with Likud Party members (including Danny Danon, the MK who invited him to address the group of Israeli lawmakers), Beck referred to the ancient areas of Jerusalem as “the original…

Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…became electric. People were standing left and right. Attendees had their phones out recording it for all its wealth. People began moving from their seats and crowding the edges of what felt more like a boxing ring during a title fight rather than a makeshift pulpit in a large conference room. And what was most apparent was that the loudest call-and-responses were coming from the millennials. The dynamic of this call-and-response shows that the p…

Big White Evangelical Turnout for Midterms

By Sarah Posner

…Carolina—in which those demographic changes could help either keep Senate seats in Democratic hands, or tip Republican-held seats to the Democrats. 2014, Jones wrote, “may be the year that the underlying demographic trends finally exert enough force to make themselves felt.” I was skeptical, pointing out that turnout and intensity matter more than these numbers. (Religion News Service’s Tobin Grant disputed Jones’ claim that white evangelicals ar…