The Theological Roots of Akin’s ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment
The Senate candidate is proud of how his Masters in Divinity shaped his politics.
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Is Norway’s Suspected Murderer Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?
If Anders Behring Breivik isn’t a Christian terrorist, then the same can be said of Osama bin Laden and many other Islamist activists—whose writings show that they were much more interested in Islamic history than theology or scripture and imagined themselves as re-creating glorious moments in Islamic history in their own imagined wars.
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Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate
The New Apostolic Reformation has been in the news a great deal since Rick Perry first announced his prayer rally, The Response. Sarah Posner has an investigative journalist’s view of this movement, its place in religious movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in politics. Here she is in conversation with Anthea Butler, a scholar of American religious history.
Santorum and the New Catholic-Evangelical Alliance
A political, not theological, co-belligerence.
Read MoreBreivik’s Manifesto on Islam vs. “Christendom” as “Demographic Warfare”
Confessed shooter wrote that “politically correct elites” made Europe soft to Islam.
Read MoreNeo-Confederates and the Revival of “Theological War” for the “Christian Nation”
The theological underpinnings of GOP presidential candidates’ ties to neo-confederate groups.
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God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann
At the May “First Friday” lecture hosted by the Institute on the Constitution at the Heritage Community Church in Severn, Maryland, IOTC founder Michael Peroutka presented the evening’s guest speaker, attorney Herb Titus, with a “Patrick Henry Award” for “his tireless and fearless telling of God’s truth to power.”
Read MoreWhy Tea Party (Hearts) David Barton
Christian nationalism finds harmonious home with smaller government anti-tax crusade. What a coincidence.
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Why All the Silly Devil Talk Should be Taken Seriously
Conspiracy theories ebb and flow in waves associated with how confident people feel about their social environments. When times are hard and unemployment rates are high, individuals get creative in where they look for explanations. It is no accident that talented, powerful, popular, and rich African American male rappers, along with female artists, are being targeted by these claims.
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Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time
Last week it was discovered that several powerful republicans at the heart of two sex scandals—Sens. John Ensign and Tom Coburn and Gov. Mark Sanford, among others—are members of The Family, reputed to be an “aggressively anti-democratic” Christian movement quietly steering us toward a “theocentric” state. Three scholars discuss The Family with the author. Sparks fly.
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