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Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper

By Will E. Young

…our university president, addressed us afterward. Two days prior, a duo in San Bernadino, California carried out a mass shooting with AR-15 rifles, killing 16. Falwell’s response that day would change the trajectory of Liberty’s public image for years to come: “I’ve always thought that if more good people had concealed-carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in, and killed them.” He was drowned out by applause from the st…

Faith and Football: What the Gospel Church Can Learn from the NFL

By Douglas Harrison

…disproportionate impact here is that for years now, the holy trinity of American professional athletics—football, baseball, and basketball—has seemed largely impervious to the broader movement toward gay and lesbian acceptance in most other sectors of mainstream culture (not for nothing did Kluwe participate in an October radio panel titled “The Gay Jackie Robinson”—as in, professional sports needs one). This imperviousness to progress has seemed…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…, it turns out, was responsible for ousting Hargis from the Tulsa-based American Christian College (founded to teach “anti-communist patriotic Americanism”) after Hargis was embroiled in a sex scandal; Hargis was accused of having sex with four male and one female students; the woman, it turned out, married one of the men in a ceremony officiated by Hargis, and the couple found out on their honeymoon that he had had sex with both of them. But in t…

‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy

By Katherine Stewart

…trodden. William J. Seymour was born in Louisiana in 1870 and grew up in African-American Catholicism steeped in strong elements of the supernatural. In 1895, he fled the poverty of subsistence farming and racial persecution. In his travels through the Midwest, he was born again into the Methodist faith and introduced to the Holiness movement, a forerunner of Pentecostalism. But it was an outbreak of smallpox, which cost him an eye, that changed h…

Taking to the Streets for Darfur

By Jonathan L. Walton

…Over 2,000 persons began the week marching through the streets of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley in order to raise money and awareness concerning genocide in the Sudan. “Walk for Darfur” is organized each year by the Jewish World Watch. The crowd was comprised primarily of members from about 60 area synagogues, yet was led by about a dozen Sudanese from Arizona….

Judge Rules Law Prohibiting Picketing Outside Military Funerals Unconstitutional

By Julie Ingersoll

…Afghanistan. In their view, God had caused the deaths as judgment over American policies that increasingly recognize rights of gays and lesbians. Recently Westboro Baptist made the trip from the Midwest to the west coast to protests to at Comicon in San Diego where they were met with a mocking counter-demonstration. At issue is the right of families of the deceased to mourn in private against what is clearly political speech—although legal effort…

Larry King’s Immoral Debate on Homosexuality and the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…sin. Botsford, who is the senior pastor at Horizon Christian Fellowship in San Diego, unfortunately paints himself into quite a corner when King quizzed him over things considered sinful in the Bible that we all do these days: KING: You paint the picture. Your—in the Old Testament—I’m not a Biblical scholar—you can’t eat shellfish. Do you eat shellfish? BOTSFORD: Absolutely. KING: You’re a sinner. BOTSFORD: No I’m not. There are some things, Larry…

Plant Porn and Physics Prayers

By Meera Subramanian

…religion are often criticized for their lack of transparency. They have intricate customs, operate under belief systems that others question, and speak a language all their own. They tend to be exclusive rather than inclusive, building walls around their elite that shut out the common citizen. The same could also be said of academia, not to mention the world of art. One man from San Francisco is taking on all three institutions; targeting priest,…

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality from Emerson to Oprah (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005); Schmidt and Sally Promey, eds.,American Religious Liberalism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012); Courtney Bender, The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010); Kathryn Lofton in Oprah: Gospel of an Icon(Berkeley: University of California, 2011); Mat…

Texas Board of Education Wants to Change History

By Lauri Lebo

…arton goes on to write that these five points are key to what he calls “American Exceptionalism”: Students must understand that American Exceptionalism is the result of the five distinctive ideas set forth in the first three lines of the Declaration and subsequently secured in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Separation? There is a confounding literal-mindedness to Christian fundamentalism. Just as the Bible is the inerrant word of God, there…