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The Purpose-Driven Wife

Posted on March 3, 2009 · Add Comment

New article at Mother Jones: 

I first encounter “teacher and exhorter” Martha Peace at a Sunday-school hall on the campus of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro, an 8,000-person megachurch in this verdant Atlanta suburb. Spacious enough to host its own congregation, the hall is flanked by embroidered banners bearing shields, birds, and crowns. [...]

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Review: Political Research Associates

Posted on March 3, 2009 · Add Comment

The Rise of Biblical Womanhood, by Gillian Kane

There has been little study of this tiny but growing pronatalist movement, but with Kathryn Joyce’s Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarch Movement, we now have an excellent resource. Joyce tracks Quiverfull’s genesis and doctrinal roots to untangle the various strands of this complex [...]

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New article at Religion Dispatches: No Conspiracy Theories Needed

Posted on February 25, 2009 · Add Comment

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Antiabortion Foes Cry Racism
In order to attract a different demographic of supporters the antiabortion movement has adopted the theory that reproductive freedom is actually a plot to rid America of its black and brown citizens.

On February 19, Rev. Walter Hoye, executive elder of the [...]

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New review at Christianity Today

Posted on February 20, 2009 · Add Comment

Deconstructing the Quiver: “[I]sightful….The issues Joyce’s book raises are fundamental to our identity as human beings, and as Christians. Perhaps they could stand some reexamination.”
–Elrena Evans, Christianity Today

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New article at Babble: God’s Army

Posted on February 20, 2009 · Add Comment

In late January, when Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, parents to eighteen children and stars of a TLC reality show about their twenty-member family, came onto The View with their newborn daughter, Jordyn, Barbara Walters asked the couple what their motivation was in having such an immense family — was it their religion?

The camera-seasoned [...]

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Eight Is Not Enough? The Big Families We Love to Hate

Posted on February 19, 2009 · Add Comment

It’s often a funny thing when right and left agree, as did many vocal commentators across the ideological spectrum this week in condemning Nadya Suleman, the mother of the California octuplets conceived by in vitro fertilization and delivered last week by a team of 46 doctors and nurses. Such a large number of multiple births [...]

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Missing: The ‘Right’ Babies

Posted on February 14, 2008 · Add Comment

New cover story at The Nation:

Steve Mosher is telling me about wolves returning to the streets of European towns. Not as part of some Vermont-model wildlife-recovery scenario but as emblems of a harsh comeuppance mankind is due–they’re stalking out of the forests like an ancient judgment, coming to claim [...]

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Hillary’s Prayer: Hillary Clinton’s Religion and Politics

Posted on September 7, 2007 · Add Comment

New story at Mother Jones with Jeff Sharlet:

It was an elegant example of the Clinton style, a rhetorical maneuver subtle, bold, and banal all at once. During a Democratic candidate forum in June, hosted by the liberal evangelical group Sojourners, Hillary Clinton fielded a softball query about Bill’s infidelity: [...]

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‘Arrows for the War’

Posted on November 9, 2006 · Add Comment

New story at The Nation:

When the Gospel Community Church in Coxsackie, New York, breaks midservice to excuse children for Sunday school, nearly half of the 225-strong congregation patters toward the back of the worship hall: the five youngest children of Pastor Stan Slager’s eight, assistant pastor Bartly Heneghan’s eleven [...]

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