Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — …
Nov 14, 2024 · With Trump’s second presidency, Christian Zionism may be returning to the White House stronger than ever before. His recent nomination of Mike Huckabee as US ambassador to Israel and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense mean that militant, hardline Christian Zionists stand to be in control of the Pentagon and US military — and, of course, at the helm of the US-Israel relationship.
Is Putin a 'Real' Christian? To Understand This Conflict We Need to …
Mar 15, 2022 · Sarah Riccardi-Swartz and Robert Saler. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is a postdoctoral fellow in the Luce-Funded Recovering Truth: Religion, Journalism, and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era project in the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. Her work is also supported by her participation as Senior Fellow in the “Orthodoxy and Human Rights” project, sponsored by ...
Phoning It In: 'Heathen' Isn't a Neutral Religious Description — It's ...
Nov 20, 2024 · ¹ n.b. The style guide for Public Research Associates, Religion Dispatches’ parent organization, also capitalizes White. As per the guide: “We capitalize ‘White people’ because it describes a socially constructed ethnic group not a skin color; just as ‘Black people’ and ‘Brown people’ describe a socially-constructed ethnic group not a skin color.”
Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by …
Aug 13, 2024 · Almost as soon as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, attacks focused on his association with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) started to roll in. Harris herself is a Baptist.. Christianity Today played things safe, noting that Walz had upset conservative Christian leaders during his time in ...
Teflon Antichrist: How Did a President Who Fit the Role So Well …
Mar 30, 2021 · One of the more unexpected developments of Donald Trump’s presidency was his metamorphosis into an evangelical hero. American Christians didn’t just like his policies, they venerated him as a near supernatural being — the last hope against Antichrist.. Such a response, to any political leader, is unusual.
Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel
Jul 1, 2011 · When actor, producer, and director Michael Landon died 20 years ago today, many in Christian America thought they had lost one of their own. After all, this was the man responsible for Highway to Heaven, the weekly extrusion of spiritual melodrama that first convinced network executives that American viewers would enjoy being touched by an angel.If further proof were needed, Landon appeared on ...
A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation
May 23, 2024 · The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is one of the most important Christian religious and political movements of our time. To see this one need look no further than the role of NAR leaders in the electoral campaigns of Donald Trump and Trump-aligned figures, from school boards to statewide elected offices, and as a dynamic part of the Christian Right.
Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?
Jul 29, 2010 · If by “abomination,” we mean a cultural prohibition—something which a particular culture abhors but another culture enjoys—then the term makes sense. But in common parlance, the term has come to connote something contrary to the order of nature itself, or God’s plan.
Statement on NAR & Christian Nationalism Answers Few …
Oct 21, 2022 · Some of the leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation —the dynamic edge and fresh movement of much of neo-charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity in the 21st Century—have revealed their movement to be in disarray. Over 60 leaders have signed a statement distancing themselves, not only from the movement they lead, but from some of its main principles and many of their longtime fellow NAR ...
‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an ... - Religion Dispatches
May 10, 2017 · Although Black Jews and Hebrew Israelites are a diverse collection of congregations and groups there are underlying beliefs that bind this fragmented religious tradition together. The Israeli School of Universal Practical Thought (ISUPK), founded in 1969 by a figure known as Abba Bivens in New York, has often courted controversy and condemnation through its use of highly confrontational street ...