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C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…ing me to stop connecting Pryor with the Family, which he no longer wants anything to do with. But the Family will survive. It’s been around for 70 years. And it has plenty of defenders. Senator Jim Inhofe wants to boast of his involvement. Senator Lindsey Graham rushed to its defense. Rep. Randy Forbes, leader of the congressional prayer caucus, is proud of his association. Rep. Frank Wolf and former Rep. Tony Hall took to the pages of Christiani…

Fact-Checking Ben Carson’s Pyramid-ism Misses the Point

By Michael Schulson

…unctions of the pyramids). Carson is a politician, not an archaeologist or Egyptologist. His base appears to consist largely of people who (a) are impressed by his biography, which emphasizes his odds-beating, institutional-inertia-defying rise to professional success, and (b) feel alienated from what they perceive as a decrepit mainstream culture. When Carson talks about the pyramids as granaries, he’s signaling that he prioritizes Biblical inter…

Dorito & Pepsi Eucharist, Hate-Pastor Smackdown, and Egyptian Muslims Shield Christians

By Michael J. Altman

…which airs on TLC on January 16. The King James Bible turns 400 this year. Egyptian Muslims stood with their Coptic neighbors as a “human shield” against Islamist attacks. A “community healing” mass was held at St. Odiilia Church in Tucson, Arizona. It was the church where the 9-year-old shooting victim, Christina Green, had her first communion. A group of Trappist monks from Iowa built, engraved, and blessed a handmade casket for Green. The monks…

Marxism Meets Al-Azhar: Can You Listen to the Qur’an on Tape?

By Hussein Rashid

…egard is human agency. First and foremost is the sense of nostalgia that many listeners bring to the sound of the Qur’an. No person exists outside of the context of culture, communal memory, and history; there is no Hayy ibn Yaqzan. When listening to the Qur’an, the listener thinks of all the associations that are tied to that sound. They are thinking of family, worship, God. They are active participants in that moment, creating the world around t…

Egyptian Fatwa Gives Neighbors Right to Dissolve Marriages

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…rvention arise, such as in the case of domestic violence or child abuse, many neighbors and family members in any culture are often quick to sweep these issues under the rug rather than deal with them, even if a family member asks for help. Something tells me that this fatwa will not change the mindset that rejects these issues and meddles in other, less important affairs. While collectivist societies often have a strong sense of community and nei…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…pproved Haigh’s Nottingham-set drama for audiences over 14. “I cannot see any other explanation than a problem of homophobia in the Church,” Teodora’s president, Cesare Petrillo, told AFP. “They decided it was unacceptable, that it should be censored and they have used their power to paralyse the distribution. Who knew the Catholic Church was a dominant owner of movie theaters? AFP offers some explanation: The large number of Italian cinemas owned…

Why We Must Reclaim “Religious Freedom” from Christian Conservatives

By Bill Berkowitz

…residential candidates remain prominent and the movement has increased its numbers in the Congress and in state governments and functions as a major and sometimes the dominant faction in the Republican Party in many states. The Christian Right remains one of the most powerful movements in American history. I should add that the implications of these things are broader than may meet the eye. Donald Trump’s calls for restricting Muslims from traveli…

Liberty University’s In-House Conversion ‘Therapist’ Retires, But Will the Christian School Cease This Discredited Practice?

By Lucas Wilson

…ecades-long work as a conversion therapist—nor, for that matter, is there any mention of conversion therapy anywhere on Liberty’s website. As is common with most practitioners of conversion therapy today, despite their belief that sexual orientations and/or gender expressions can be changed, they don’t publicly advertise their ineffective and deeply damaging “therapy.” Another survivor of Emerick’s conversion therapy, a 2017 graduate who asked to…

Who’s Scared of Polygamy? A Restrained Case for the “Slippery Slope” Argument

By William E. Smith

…to revisit the old slippery slope argument that some have pushed for so many years. In other words, now that same-sex marriage is legal, what’s next? According to a number of pundits, such as Fredrik DeBoer at Politico, it’s polygamy. I count myself among this group. This question is pressing in light of the fact that support for polygamy has risen rapidly (from 7% to 16%) among Americans over the past few years. Some liberal commentators, unders…

Republicans “Evangelizing” Catholic Voters

By Patricia Miller

…s. The irony is that Bush, an Episcopalian convert to Catholicism, is in many ways the most traditional Catholic of the sizeable number of Catholics jostling for the GOP nod. Bobby Jindal has labeled himself a “Catholic Evangelical” and even hosted “The Response,” a prayer extravaganza that amounts to a full-out paean to Christian nationalism. Rick Santorum has long courted the Christian right with his anti-abortion rhetoric and was once named by…