pat robertson

Alright evangelical and/or fundamentalist pundits* opposed to the Ground Zero mosque, whom art thou? Are thee the faithful praying/hoping/waiting for the imminent return of Christ or are thee like the believers in Ephesus who forsook their first love in the name of zealotry (Revelation…

The consequences of fusing the sacred and the secular.

“It’s part of the show.”

At the Fathers’ House International church in Henderson, Kentucky, Pastor Lisa Bourland is seated on the floor of the altar in the prayer room washing the feet of speakers for that evening’s Women, Weapons of Warfare (WWW) conference. Behind her is a blank movie screen—the…

The following video was shot and edited by RD associate editor Sarah Posner to accompany her feature, Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe.

Also: Sarah Palin’s, the Pope’s…

Herb Titus, a lawyer for the far-right Gun Owners of America, is jubilant over last week’s Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, in which the Court held that state and…

UCC minister Chuck Currie is campaigning for a seat on a $1 billion legislative body in Portland, Oregon. In this interview with the man whose candidacy may inform our thinking about the role of religious progressives for years to come, the pioneering blogger takes on church/state issues point blank.

A veteran analyst of right-wing militancy notices a creeping maturity in the media’s ability to talk about the religious elements of terrorism—even when it’s Christian.

Threats of right-wing violence have doubled in the past year. What is behind the latest upsurge in the movement to create a Christian theocratic state?