What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’? - Religion Dispatches
WEBFeb 15, 2011 · With the swing to the Right of the 1950s, American conservatives began to deploy “Judeo-Christian” in the fight against “Godless Communism.”. Senator Barry Goldwater contrasted “Judeo-Christian understandings” with “the communist projection of man as a producing, consuming animal to be used and discarded.”. Since then, “Judeo ...
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WEBSep 13, 2024 · Religion Dispatches | Religion Dispatches. Church Attendance is (Once Again) Correlated with Authoritarianism — So Why Do We Refuse to Acknowledge It? Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’. We Would Be Wise to Pay Attention to Trump’s Apocalyptic ...
My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in …
WEBJul 14, 2009 · In the last week of June, two different circles of blogs invested in the Quiverfull movement—both as critics and supporters of the pro-natalist, patriarchal, conservative Christian lifestyle—focused on the sad news of the death of one Quiverfull mother’s child shortly after birth.
Biblical Battered Wife Syndrome: Christian Women and Domestic …
WEBJun 18, 2009 · In Andersen’s reading, the story of Adam and Eve is that of Adam’s deadly betrayal of his wife: offering her up for punishment—the wages of eating the apple were death—rather than owning his blame for sin. Women have been responding in a sort of biblical battered wife syndrome, the “Eve Syndrome,” ever since.
Netflix’s Carlton Pearson Biopic, “Come ... - Religion Dispatches
WEBApr 17, 2018 · What's the message, Bishop? That question, asked by the church's closeted gay music director, Reggie (a convincing Lakeith Stanfield), provides the hinge for the whole Carlton Pearson story in the acclaimed new Netflix biopic, Come Sunday. It's a question that lingers still. When Reggie put
Who Are the Waldensians and Why Did the Pope Ask for Their …
WEBJul 9, 2015 · In his address Pope Francis asked not just for forgiveness but said that wider Christian unity “does not mean uniformity.”. The Pope’s namesake, St. Francis, was a contemporary of the Waldensian founder Peter Waldo, and in many ways they shared a similar theological perspective. Early Franciscans were …
A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John …
WEBJun 8, 2010 · And let us thank God for the life and teachings of John Wooden. , a Canadian Muslim, teaches theology at Loyola Marymount University, the Jesuit university in Los Angeles. His book, (Kelowna: Copper House, 2006) is an introduction to Islam for a North American Christian audience. He is currently the editor of the.
Fact-checking Scripture: “Those who do not work should not eat.”
WEBMar 31, 2017 · Fact-checking Scripture: “Those who do not work should not eat.”. 609. Occasionally, a bit of scripture will float into public discourse, often in the context of politicians and civilians sorting through the implications of some bit of policy. The citations are as a rule fairly shallow, as one side or the other tries to leverage the moral ...
The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel
WEBJul 28, 2009 · The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel. Many of the notes sounded by the eclectic soul-seekers of the New Age in the 1960s were sounded by the Romantics in the early nineteenth century. You might think of the idealization of Nature, of the upbeat and dancing portrait of human embodiment, human …
When the 'Biblical View' for Evangelicals Was That Life Begins at …
WEBSep 27, 2019 · The novel translation of Exodus 21:22-23 allowed the founders of the evangelical Right to neutralize previous, Bible-based reservations about Catholic pro-life activism. By 1980, Jerry Falwell was off to the races. “The Bible clearly states that life begins at conception,” he declared in his book Abortion “is murder according to the Word ...