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The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…ed only on matters of grammar: while Newsweek spoke of his “triumph”, Time praised his “triumphal return.” In return, he provided both with endless opportunities to feature the kinds instantly iconic images upon which newsweeklies had been built. As wholeheartedly as Time and Newsweek endorsed the “triumph” of John Paul II, the weeklies’ born-again fondness for religious authority has not endured until today. Since the explosion of the clergy sex…

This Year in Satanism

By Joseph Laycock

…vowed to charge Greaves with grave desecration, but no arrests were made. APRIL In April, the Satanic Temple announced its “Protect Children Project,” which opposes the use of corporal punishment in schools. It encouraged students to assert their religious conviction that their body is inviolable and cannot be subjected to abusive punishment. The Satanic Temple offered to put school boards “on notice” if they violate the religious rights of studen…

More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s

By John Wigger

…own, Shaken Together, which comes from one of the favorite Bible verses of prosperity preachers at the time, including Jim Bakker. But my editor thought that it was too obscure for most readers and I’m sure she was right. How do you feel about the cover? It nicely evokes the look of 1980s television and captures some of Jim and Tammy’s appeal. PTL was all about images so there were any number of options. Too bad books can’t come with a dozen diffe…

What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe? Easter Reflections from a Non-Christian

By Gary Laderman

…structive for individuals, families, and the nation; on the other side are progressive Christians who believe President Obama should do even more to work for social justice and the betterment of humanity through governmental action. Yet both sides look to Jesus Christ for guidance about health in American society. What do the Christians believe? For many, rap and hip hop are the devil’s music with no redeeming features. But the growing number of a…

Holy Father, You’re Not Helping: The Problem with the Pope’s Plan to Consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

By Katherine Kelaidis

…e fact that consecrating Ukraine and Russia at the same time, because of a prophecy about Russia, is probably less than ideal in the midst of a war in which the independence of Ukraine is at issue. To be clear, there’s almost certainly no ill intent on the part of Pope Francis, the Vatican, or all the well meaning Catholics cheering this on. They all probably believe they’re doing a very good thing. But that’s the problem of making other people—pa…

Glenn Beck’s Salvation Army

By Peter Montgomery

…’s a dichotomy. Walker is careful to draw a line between what he sees as appropriate public evangelism, like Beck’s rally, and getting the government involved. “Where I see the contradiction is advocating for religious liberty and trying to co-opt the government to do your bidding.” Which brings us back to America’s Divine Destiny, the Friday night event at the Kennedy Center. One of the speakers, Professor Patrick Lee of Franciscan University in…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…anczer comes at a time when federal agencies are taking a more proactive approach to prosecuting abuse in the Orthodox community. In Brooklyn last year, about 25 Orthodox men were arrested on sex abuse charges. This year in Lakewood, New Jersey, a predominantly Orthodox community, the local prosecutor has launched 29 sex crime investigations. According to law enforcement officials in New Jersey and New York, more Orthodox abuse victims are coming…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…xample, in addition to the tragic, but all too familiar, wave of blasphemy prosecutions in Pakistan, this year saw prosecutions for allegedly atheist comments on Facebook and Twitter in Bangladesh, Bahrain, Egypt, Indonesia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Turkey. In some of these cases, the governments even threatened to prosecute those who commented on, or “liked” or re-tweeted, the offending comments. In May, the Pakistan government went so…

My Business, Myself: Piercing the Corporate Veil

By Howard M. Friedman

…rgoing a reevaluation. However, in addition to objections by religious non-profits, more than a dozen for-profit small businesses have filed lawsuits objecting to furnishing coverage for some or all contraceptive services because of the owners’ religious beliefs. That’s the case with Annex Medical. Annex’s owner, Stuart Lind, is a devout Catholic. In 2001, he made a formal commitment to operate his business in accordance with the teachings of Jesu…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…ip-Hop—with Country and Top-40 which, we were taught, were wholesome and appropriate. It was never lost on me that Rock n’ Roll was God’s favorite music, that straight blonde hair was His select style, and that Liberty or Bob Jones University were his schools of choice. My blackness seemed nothing more than a speck on the pristine framework of white evangelicalism. My skin tone was something to be tolerated as a transgression that I had chosen or…