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30Jurors in faith-healing trial say evidence overpowered a weak defense
Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 30-09-2011
Jurors deliberated less than four hours and their verdict sent another resounding warning to the members of the Hickmans’ church, the Followers of Christ, that failing to provide medical care to critically ill children is unacceptable and will be punished.
Sep
29Aimee and Apocalypticism; or The 3 Days of the Sutton
Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 29-09-2011
Paul Harvey
Send lawyers, guns, and money,
The s*** has hit the fan
(Warren Zevon)
(Warren Zevon)
Sep
29Woman accused of luring teenage boy to his death claims to be member of vampire cult
Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 29-09-2011
A Florida woman jailed in the slaying of a 16-year-old boy says she and her cohorts were members of a vampire cult and that she loves drinking blood.
Sep
28Including "Religious Others" in the Christian Nation "Debate"
Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 28-09-2011
by Edward J. Blum
Amid the culture wars of the 1990s, Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore published a slim volume. It had a provocative title and a silly subtitle: The Godless Constitution: The Case against Religious Correctness. Thankfully, the subtitle was later changed to A Moral Defense of
Sep
28TEXAS FAITH: Is it ever right to divorce a spouse with Alzheimers?
Filed Under (Reigion Gossip) by Admin on 28-09-2011
When Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson told a caller on his TV show that a married man dating another woman because his wife was suffering from Alzheimer’s “should divorce and start all over,” it caused a predictable reaction. Even his co-host reminded Robertson that couples vow to remain together “for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer.” But Robertson did not back off: “I hate Alzheimer’s. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They’re gone. They are gone.” Alzheimer’s, he said, “is a kind of death.” And he said he would not put a “guilt trip on someone who divorced for such a reason.”
Sep
28Police inquiry over Jehovah’s Witness magazine ‘mentally diseased’ article
Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 28-09-2011
An official magazine for Jehovah’s Witnesses that described those who leave the church as “mentally diseased” is at the centre of a police inquiry, it has emerged.
Sep
27Why the AntiChrist Matters in Politics
Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 27-09-2011
by J. Michael Utzinger
Matthew Sutton’s reflections on the antichrist and American politics can be found in today’s New York Times under the title “Why the Antichrist matters in Politics.“ There is some great food for thought here including how dispensational premillennialism (Sutton wisely didn’t use this term in an op-ed) feeds anti-government sentiment. He also suggests that a power vacuum among politically oriented evangelicals have allowed libertarians and Tea Party activists (like Bachmann, Perry, and Paul) to exploit evangelical energies without the type of religious leadership (previously seen in individuals like Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell) who tempered the tendency toward apocalyptic excess. Perhaps a throw-away line, but I appreciated the analogy with Marxism to explain apparent tensions within the evangelical between expectation and action. After all, to those of us who study apocalypticism historically, it is easy to see Marxism as a secularized form of Christian apocalypticism (albeit a this-worldly type). The whole piece can be found here.
Sep
26American History Now, American Religious History Now
Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 26-09-2011
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