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Pastor Implicated in Sex Abuse Scandal is Back

By Rob Shryock

…nd the top-billed speaker at the conference. Comparing Mohler to legendary American pastor Jonathan Edwards, Mahaney rhapsodized about how smart Mohler is by gushing over his “stack of books”: I’ve seen his stack of books. If you have a stack of books, I’m saying there’s quite a difference, pretty obvious difference, between your stack and his stack of books. So if you are comforting yourself, ‘I have a stack,’ well you might have a stack, but if…

Religious Right Prays To Lift Curse Of Obama, Glenn Beck’s Commencement Speech, And A Cross In The Desert: The Week In Religion, Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…provoked a range of responses from groups watching the case. The ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State called the decision a disappointment while the Alliance Defense Fund and American Center for Law and Justice applauded the decision, the latter calling it “a victory against anti-religious hysteria.” People for the American Way called the decision “misguided and shortsighted,” adding that its “creation of a loophole allowi…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…searchers point out that in a previous study, a full 68% of “unaffiliated” Americans still maintained a belief in God or a “higher power.” And more than half of those “unaffiliated” believed that churches and other religious communities tend to be a good thing for society. While growth among the “unaffiliated” is primarily being fueled by North America and Europe, fully 76% of the religiously unaffiliated globally resided in the Asia-Pacific regio…

No More Condescension: What We Can Do Now

By Peter Laarman

…ency who apparently became invisible or even nonexistent to the chattering classes. What I’m going to say about this may be taken ill by many RD readers, but it is fully consistent with what I have written in these pages previously. For more than thirty years, a Democratic Party financed by wealthy globalists focused its energies on issues related to culture liberalism (feminism, multiculturalism, LGBTQ advancement, etc.) while ignoring the devast…

New Mag Provides a Platform for Christians of Color

By Anita Little

…e planned to hold a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. He responds with, “Are they friends of yours. Set up a meeting.” There are so many other segments of the voting bloc that we can look at. We’ve looked at white evangelicals, poor or working-class whites, we get it. What about the poor or working-class blacks who also believed in the things Trump said? How about the Latinos who voted for Trump as well? It’s time to look at some of the…

White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

By Paul Harvey

…Christians worship only between sunrise and sunset. The disruptions of the American revolutionary era, when many slaves ran for freedom or fought for the British side, made the American whites in the region suspicious of independent black religious activity. Jonathan Bryan, Andrew’s owner, licensed Andrew Bryan to preach and vouched for him; after his master’s death Andrew Bryan won his freedom. Andrew Bryan eventually became a slaveholder himself…

Taking (Public School) Teachers to Church, and the Mosque, and the Temple…

By Lisa Webster

…ores lived religion in much the same way the teachers might do it in their classrooms: by inviting people into the classroom to speak about their faiths, and by visiting local sites that are important to faith communities—all the while focused on keeping to an academic, “outsider” (and not devotional, “insider”) perspective. To those of who report on religion and its role in society and culture, it seems clear that a solid education should include…

The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

By Shane Burley

…ted with antisemitism—two constituencies that aren’t just prevalent on the American Right, but central to the National Populism that now serves as its motivating ideology. Because of its volatility and bigotry, the frequency of right-wing violence (up to and including lethal violence) outpaces the Left by such a wide margin that in a healthy media environment there would be no temptation to compare. Just as antisemitism and “eliminationist” rhetor…

Two Wars and No Peace in Sight: The Role of Faith-Based Pacifism

By Richard Ricketts

…ot necessarily knowing what my position was, and through the course of the class I watched a couple of films that profoundly shaped my thinking. One of them was a film that showed a lot of footage of Vietnam War victims and the effects of Agent Orange and napalm; the other one was a film about Hiroshima and what happened after we dropped nuclear bombs. And when I watched those films, it was clear to me that this is not a morally acceptable way to…

Without Bev Shea, No Billy Graham

By Douglas Harrison

…squarely planted in the post-World War II booming Christian entertainment business, Shea modeled what it looked like for a man of God to be fully in the modern world of getting and spending on a vast new scale—to stand bestride the world of Christian music in the age of mass-market reproduction, at least as much as a single man singing traditional gospel songs and hymns could—without being of it. It’s not that Shea was part of something entirely…