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Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…aking in tongues; their concentration unbroken by a persistently ringing cell phone left in a purse at the back of the room. One by one, the speakers lower themselves into a chair facing Bethlehem (where Bourland also runs a house of prayer on Manger Street), and rest their feet in a disposable aluminum pan now half full of murky water. As Bourland washes their feet, one by one, about a dozen people watch, pray, and lay on hands. As she finishes e…

“Japan Gave Us Pokemon, God Gave Them an Earthquake”

By Anthea Butler

…purported 2012 “end of the world” to explain the seismic activity. I’ve collected a sample of these below for you to see through Google’s real-time twitter feed. From the small sample, it’s safe to say there is a “fatalistic” understanding that natural disasters are about sin or God’s wrath. Even insurance companies think so, placing the phrase “Acts of God” as a catchall for everything unexplainable and destructive. Disasters seem to bring out s…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…d an amicus brief in the case, immediately denounced the court’s ruling, calling it “outrageous” and “shameful.” Perkins said that “This radical redefinition of marriage will have severe consequences for children, families, religious liberties, businesses and every facet of society as we know it.” Perkins added that the “decision puts marriage at risk all across the nation and highlights the need for a Marriage Protection Amendment to the US Const…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…s, and he has echoed that language. Some of us continue to dream that he will roll out a major abortion-reduction initiative. All too familiar. Such an initiative has not been offered. But what has occurred are a series of disappointingly typical Democratic abortion-related moves… Frank Page, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and a member of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships’ council, told the…

The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

There’s an oxymoron embedded in one of the model bills in the Christian right’s state legislative campaign called Project Blitz. Their model resolution for Religious Freedom Day celebrates a day devoted to something they oppose: religious freedom. Yes, the authors mouth many of the right things, including boilerplate platitudes and cherrypicked historical artifacts as recommended by Project Blitz. But what’s omitted illuminates the intentions of…

#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni

By Megan Goodwin

…r local ranchers. Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan and their supporters are rallying behind two members of the Hammond family—who have, by the way, asked them to please stop. Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr., 73, and Steven Dwight Hammond, 46, were indicted on federal arson charges and recently remanded to federal prison to serve mandatory minimum sentences under the 1996 federal Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. Ammon Bundy received testimon…

Colbert v. Stewart: It’s On! 10.30.10

By Julie Ingersoll

…ewart made his “big announcement” last night. Stewart and the Daily Show will host the “Rally to Restore Sanity,” 10.30.10 on the Washington Mall. In a hilarious parody of Glenn Beck, Stewart urges moderates to join him for “a Million Moderate March,” suggesting that a small minority of Americans have taken the public discussion hostage because the “rest of us have s**t to do.” And that we should just step up and “take it down a notch for America….

Pretty Girls Like Trap Church: A Movement at 2 Chainz’s Atlanta Pink House

By Anita Little

Last week in Atlanta, Georgia, an unassuming house on 1530 Howell Mill Road that had been painted bright pink in promotion of rapper 2 Chainz’s latest album, “Pretty Girls Like Trap Music,” was whitewashed back to its original eggshell hue. For the past several weeks, the Pink Trap House installation had been a lot of things to different people. A quick search of the #PinkTrapHouse hashtag on Instagram shows it was a major tourist attraction to f…

Pseudo-Historian David Barton in the Times and on The Daily Show

By Julie Ingersoll

…tea party, Barton was the subject of a fluff piece in the New York Times followed by an interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show (video below, after the jump). Barton’s slipperiness was evident in both, though only Stewart seemed plainly frustrated by it. Those of us who write about Barton have been busily dissecting his appearances and Right Wing Watch has posted a great multipart analysis here. Rather than explore the disagreements between t…

War on Christmas, War on Schmistmas, Happy Holiday

By Julie Ingersoll

…t a season in which we reflect on our lives and how we live in the world. All religions (and the cultures in which they exist) have such seasons and, I would conjecture, they are evolutionarily valuable. It’s a time of taking stock. I’m not a Pagan either but I would think that the Pagans might have a legitimate gripe with the Christians; after all, the holiday was theirs first. (Imagine those billboards!) For better or worse, in our culture, that…