Christian Right

Notwithstanding Haiti’s Christian character, the Haitian personality, if there is one, has been nurtured by a Vodou civilization that any responsible treatment of the subject must disentangle from the Western world’s manufactured “voodoo” culture.

Conservatives overlook his support for abortion rights for short-term gains.

Preachers and public figures have often used natural disaster as an occasion to opine about God’s justice, or lack thereof. Or to make the definitive case against a divine order. But Haiti deserves to be addressed on its own terms, and in relation to the needs of those still suffering.

The obsessive “philosemitism” of Christian Zionists is tied to a view of the end times that determines how they should “support” Jews and Israel in fulfilling prophecy. And this obsession has a history of turning ugly.

As people around the world begin to reckon with the scope of the catastrophe in Haiti, we offer a set of responses to what was—for those whose work focuses on American religion—a shameful expression of prejudice and ignorance from a once-prominent evangelical leader.

On resisting the temptation to turn Haiti into a morality play.

20th century Jewish aspirations for a revived national home were supported by three centuries of Christian enthusiasm—bolstered by biblical literalism—for the return of the Jews to “their land.” In this excerpt from the newly-released Zeal for Zion, Shalom Goldman traces the Christian roots of Zionism.

Once again, Pat Robertson has embarrassed the larger Christian community with his comments on Haiti, but the idea of God as a judge is deeply rooted in American religion.

A visit with Barbara Forrest, philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana U. and co-author of Creationism’s Trojan Horse.

President of the Catholic League tries to blacklist Obama advisors…