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Amazing Grace: Obama Hits a Blue Note in Charleston

By Peter Manseau

…hymn will ever be the spiritual national anthem that “Amazing Grace” has become. All of which makes it particularly striking to consider that “Amazing Grace” is not one song, but many. More than most pieces of music, its meaning is dependent upon the context in which it is sung or heard. The American “Amazing Grace” spectrum runs from the painfully stilted (for example, when sung by Tom Netheron of the Lawrence Welk’s “Musical Family” ) to the eff…

Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”

By Chrissy Stroop

…rominent evangelical speaker and author Tony Campolo generate some buzz by coming around to full LGBTQ affirmation, including here on RD, where senior editor Cathleen Falsani heralded Campolo’s move as “evangelicalism’s tipping point.” You’ll have to forgive me if I’m not ready to break out the champagne just yet. Well, make that a bottle of non-alcoholic sparkling grape juice, not only as that’s what my evangelical family used to drink on New Yea…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…day found that residents in ninety percent of 52 surveyed countries have become more accepting of homosexuality over the past 20 years. From a Daily Beast analysis of the report and another, “The Relationship between LGBT Inclusion and Economic Development: An Analysis of Emerging Economies,” produced by the Williams Institute in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development: What factors correlate with acceptance of sexual divers…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al Conference for a Pastoral Care with Homosexual and Transsexual People, took place in Rome today, October 3, in advance of the upcoming bishops’ synod on the family. America Magazine, a Catholic journal published by the Jesuit Order, published “Towards Global Inclusion of LGBT People Within Catholic Communities,” remarks made by James Alison at the conference. Alison recounts the biblical story of Peter visiting the house of Cornelius, a Roman C…

Jews and Christians for Santorum?

By Sarah Posner

…ause Romney is for your kid’s male teacher wearing a dress and heels to school, and Santorum is for “social sanity.” Here’s the text of the robocall, via the website JewsandChristianstogether.org: Hi, my name is Brian Camenker; I’m a Jew from Massachusetts. And, this is Darcy Brandon; I’m a Christian from California. If you believe as we do that marriage and sexuality should only be between a man and a woman, please help us stop Mitt Romney. As Go…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rora, Colorado movie theater, The Telegraph published a “history of mass shootings in the U.S. since Columbine”—a list of nearly 30 shooting sprees with lethal results. Ne’er-do-wells who merely wounded didn’t make the cut. Thus, not included on the list was a shooting spree in an Alabama bar with a multiple arson warm-up just two days earlier. There, enraged after having been fired from his job (only the latest in a string of personal and financi…

Prosperity Gospel and Foreclosure

By Sarah Posner

…est churches in the country. According to an investigation by the NWITimes.com, a paper covering northwestern Indiana, the judge presiding over the foreclosure proceedings told attorneys in court, “When I saw some of the expenditures being made in this church when there was a mortgage not being paid, I was astounded.” NWITimes reports that even as the church owed close to $100,000 a month in mortgage payments (not to mention mortgage payments on c…

5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video

By Joanna Brooks

…ted making the rounds again late last week, and now, according to Politico.com, it has gone “viral.” Prickly and irritated, Romney pushes back when Mickelson challenges him on his view of the end-times and whether Jesus Christ will reign from Jerusalem or a New Jerusalem in the Americas. “I understand my faith better than you do,” says Romney. “I’m not sure,” Mickelson says. Also pressed on LDS doctrine on abortion, Romney says, “You don’t unders…

Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

…leaders would like you to consider. Jesusween. The folks at www.Jesusween.com are hoping to turn Halloween into a “Christian gift-giving festival” and a time for evangelizing. And actually, in spite of the headline on this post, the Jesusween FAQ says it’s OK to give out candy along with gospel tracts or inexpensive Bibles. Just be sure to respond to “Trick or Treat” with “Jesus loves you.” The Hell House Experience. Plenty of evangelical churche…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…of contemporary American evangelicalism, and the Christian Post, a smaller competitor. At the center of the storm is David Jang, a popular preacher in East Asia but a relatively unknown figure in the United States, who has ties to the late Rev. Moon’s Unification Church and, according to sources in a recent Christianity Today article, may have led his followers to conclude that he is a “Second Coming Christ.” The story begins, publicly at least, i…