Protestantism

Dis Grace

God, guns, and handy coincidences in Florida

Birth Control Buzz Kill: HHS Contraception Mandate Comes Under More Fire

American Protestants apparently want to be just like American Catholics. According to Religion News Service, they too are pissed about Barack Obama's Health and Human Services Mandate, which requires that insurance companies provide birth control coverage.

Ask What Rick Santorum Will Do to Your Country

In 1960, during his Democratic campaign against Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy made his views on the First Amendment's establishment clause known to a group of Texas ministers by saying he supported an "America where the separation between church and state are absolute." That tidbit of jurisprudence ... More >>

Blake Mycoskie, TOMS Founder, Comments on Involvement With Focus on the Family

​As we reported this week, Blake Mycoskie, the founder of philanthropic canvas shoe company TOMS, has been working with Christian anti-gay group Focus on the Family. He spoke at a Focus on the Family event in June. Mycoskie has commented to us on the issue, via a representative:

Blake Mycoskie, TOMS Shoes Founder, Working With Christian, Anti-Gay Focus on the Family

​Today, the internet noticed that Blake Mycoskie, the founder of the philanthropic slip-on shoe company TOMS, which donates a pair of shoes for every one bought (and has expanded greatly and now includes a wedding collection), has been working closely with Focus on the Family, which does not e ... More >>

Hip, Edgy Evangelicals Come to Godless East Village

​The East Village isn't a neighborhood one would normally associate with Bible-thumping evangelical Christianity, but here we are. The Times has a feature on Trinity Grace Church, a "hip" church that just opened up a new branch in the godless, immoral wasteland of the East Village. Trinity Grace i ... More >>

Study: The Least Religious People Know the Most About Religion...and Other Things

​A new Pew Forum study about religion informs us that many of us actually don't know what we're talking about in that arena, including many of us who actually purport to be religious. A range of religious and general questions were given to atheists/agnostics, Jews, Protestants, Catholics, and ... More >>

Cordoba House Poll: New Yorkers Oppose, Staten Islanders REALLY Oppose Mosque Near Ground Zero

Quinnipiac University released a poll this morning showing that the majority of New York City voters are opposed to Cordoba House's plan to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. The poll of 1,183 registered city voters showed 52 percent in opposition, 31 percent in favor, and ... More >>

Meet Nutty Mainstream Christians in Waiting for Armageddon

Chatting with a signer of the 'Manhattan Declaration'

​This week, 150 Christian religious leaders unveiled the Manhattan Declaration: A Call to Christian Conscience, named after our very own borough. It's a manifesto signed by prominent Christian leaders that calls for staunch opposition to things like abortion, gay marriage, and other satatanic ... More >>

Cancer: Cured! McCarthy: Crucified! Jews: Demonic! Studies in Crap Digs Up The Defender

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ The Defender Magazine Date: Issues from January, February and September, 1955 ... More >>

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band+Disappears

This Beautiful City, Our Town, and Winter's Tale

Plays about place oddly displaced

Robert Forster's Long Goodbye

A Go-Between re-emerges with maybe the best song his dearly departed bandmate ever wrote

Clip Job: Uniformity Can Be Fun

There Might Not Be Blood

The apocalyptic comfort of the Arcade Fire

Believer Or Not

Urban Buttgirl Meets Rural Right

And the holidays won't be the same

On Call

Mike Jones wasn't the only one to get regular visits from "Art."

Salvation Army

Jesus is my co-pilot: two new books hit the road with evangelicals

Harriet Miers, We Hardly Knew Ye

Battered Bush accepts withdrawal of flagging Supreme Court nominee

Sanctifying the Evangelical Vote

Culture Clash

'86–'95: From Evangelicals to Trannies, the First Gulf War to Tupac Shakur

Boring From Within

Harriet Miers: This is your life

The Two Minutes Hate

NY Mirror

Dear Bush Beat: 'We Are Fed Up with American B.S. About The Great Bush Government … '

Under The Revival Tent

Beyond the aging Billy Graham, some new faces on the Christian right

Summertime in a Small Town: Nowhere Girls in an Idle Idyll

Morning Report 4/14/05
That's Right Christian of You, Tom

Bush Places U.S. Under Cardinal Law

The Bush Tapes: Hitting the Erase Button

Morning Report 2/22/05
The Zelig of the Religious Right

Morning Report 2/21/05
The Tangled Roots of Doug Wead

Film

The Protestant Wet Blanket

The Bush Family Gospel

Numb and Number

And a Puppet Shall Lead Them

The End of Democracy

Losing America's birthright, the George Bush way

The Christocrats

Post-Pentecostal Boogie

A Rock Match for White Southerners Speaking in Tongues

Turn the Other Sheikh

It's the Christian Thing to Do

Southern Baptists OK Dancing (on War Victims' Graves)

Bush Is Their Shepherd

Two-Story 100-Year-Old Wooden House

God Save the Teens

Local Kids Seek a New Kind of Church Through Hardcore and Hip-Hop

Straightness 101

Christian Conservatives Take Their Antigay Campaign to the Schools

The Gospel According to the A.G.

Ashcroft to Christian Crowd: Use Government to Sell Jesus

Pat Jumps

Third Party Lock & Load