Tags: proselytizing
WWJD Or The First Amendment?

Sarah Posner.

The real problem with the scripture-encoded rifles.

Travolta Airlifts Scientology, Supplies, to Haiti

Becky Garrison.

Representatives of Scientology have had trouble with prosyletizing in the past.

Proselytizing the Pros: Christianity in Big-Time Sports

Tom Krattenmaker.

Mark McGwire gives thanks to “the man upstairs” as he confesses his steroid use, Tiger Woods is publicly urged to find Jesus—but that’s just the tip of the iceberg, or the football, as the case may be, when it comes to the link between sports and evangelical Christianity.

Unforgiven: Brit and Tiger and the Problem of Speed-Cycle Grace

Peter Laarman.

Tiger could take Brit Hume’s suggestion and get Jesus for his troubles but nobody should pretend that anything Christian is going on here.

Religious Right Leader Claims Hasan Motivated By “Animus Toward Christians and Jews”

Sarah Posner.

Rick Scarborough uses occasion to claim hate crimes law persecutes Christians.

The Defense Department Gospel and America’s Desert Crusade

Nathan Schneider.

Bush-era intelligence briefings featured cover pages subtitled with decontextualized and misunderstood scripture in deference to the piety of the administration. Where were the Christian and Jewish moderates, and why didn’t they denounce this extremism?

Religion Poll Proves that Liberals Are Not Conservatives

Candace Chellew-Hodge.

A new Barna poll plays off of the tarnished "liberal" label and seems to push the idea that conservative religion is the real religion.

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

Bill Berkowitz.

In an exclusive interview, investigative reporter Mike Reynolds uncovers the special relationship between Iraqi Kurds and a group of American evangelicals that practices “spiritual warfare,” harbors a deep animosity toward Islam, and views the region as the evangelistic final frontier.