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.
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 ...
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 ...
Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel
WEBJul 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 ...
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and …
WEBApr 2, 2018 · In his new book, The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll, historian Randall J. Stephens documents the turbulent relationship between Christian faith and popular music in the twentieth century United States. How did Christians inspire rock ‘n’ roll? I focus quite a bit on Pentecostalism; especially in chapter one, which focuses on the origins ...
Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?
WEBJul 29, 2010 · Homosexuality is unnatural, a perversion, a disease, an abomination. Yet a close reading of the term toevah suggests an entirely different meaning: something permitted to one group, and forbidden to another. Though there is (probably) no etymological relationship, toevah means taboo. The term toevah (and its plural, toevot) occurs 103 times in ...
A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation
WEBMay 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.
Fact-checking Scripture: “Those who do not work should not eat.”
WEBMar 31, 2017 · The biblical passage, 2 Thessalonians 3-10, was a rebuttal to one of the hearing’s expert witnesses, a representative of the Jewish anti-hunger group MAZON. (He .) It is also a familiar refrain to anyone who has watched past debates about SNAP. House Republicans have historically cited the verse — “if a man will not work, he shall not eat ...
Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine …
WEBApr 5, 2010 · Not only do the Sisters redefine sainthood, but they redefine Easter as well. This Easter, April 4, 2010, they will celebrate their in Dolores Park in San Francisco—with the traditional Hunky Jesus and Easter bonnet competitions. On Easter Weekend, during the time of the “Castro Clone,” three men went out into the streets to challenge the ...
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.