Freedom Federation Summit: A Sleepy Awakening
With the firepower of the religious right behind it, could this “multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-national” revival get off the ground?
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Mauled by an Angel: Why Do Americans Need “God’s Secret Agents”?
In the 1990s angels became a spiritual accoutrement for prosperous yet troubled baby-boomers adrift in a suburban wasteland of McMansions and Lincoln Navigators. Do the angry angels of the new film Legion, with their roots in angelmania, mean that for many Americans God is absent? And do these creatures, heavenly and horrific, fill the vacuum?
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Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane
Did Williamsburg’s Hasidic community have Mayor Bloomberg close a major bike lane simply because they were offended by the immodestly clothed hipsters biking through their neighborhood, as most of the press has reported? Was a topless protest the best way to respond?
Read MoreReligious Right: God Should Kill Health Care Reform to Save America from Herod
Christmas story spurs new theocratic fantasies to defeat health care reform.
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Heresy, Bad Taste, or Capitalist Adventure: Is it Still Pentecostalism?
In this chronicle of mutations within the Pentecostal movement, we learn to distinguish among the Prosperity Gospel, Word of Faith, and New Apostolic Movements—and we learn why it matters.
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Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited
The movement that promised to make men into warriors for Christ is back, with a huge rally in Colorado. But this time it’s all about including women, and preparing in good Christian Zionist fashion, for the conversion of the Jews.
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Prosperity, Spiritual Warfare, and the ‘On-Demand’ God
Given that so many powerful Pentecostals and Charismatics, like Senator John Ensign and Sarah Palin, are embroiled in high-profile scandals, one might expect to hear more about the movements that unite them. Anthea Butler, a leading scholar on Pentecostalism and American religious history, traces the various movements and their theologies of wealth, healing, and dominion.
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The New Christianity: What the Mainstream Media Has Missed
To cover a new religious movement, you have to know that the movement exists. An interview with Bruce Wilson.
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Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World
Is this still Christianity? Bruce Wilson offers a primer on what has been called “Third Wave Christianity,” a global movement now almost 300 million-strong whose adherents believe they can abolish evil from the world by hunting witches, chasing demons from city limits, and getting Sarah Palin elected.
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What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?
In an exclusive interview, investigative reporter Mike Reynolds uncovers the special relationship between Iraqi Kurds and a group of American evangelicals that practices “spiritual warfare,” harbors a deep animosity toward Islam, and views the region as the evangelistic final frontier.
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