The Friday Video: Vernon Parker: Meet Kyrsten Sinema Web Ad

When newly elected Democratic Arizona Representative Kyrsten Sinema was sworn in this week, she became “the first explicitly religious ‘none’ elected to Congress.” She took the oath of office with her hand on a copy of the U.S Constitution. Among other “Historic Religious Firsts in the 113th U.S. Congress”: Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [is] the [...]

Free Speech, Religious Speech, Tolerance, Etc.

I didn’t pay much attention when Kirk Cameron made anti-gay remarks last week. After all, he’s a sad dweeb who used to be on a popular TV show–or that’s what I hear. I never watched “Growing Pains.” I didn’t pay much attention when he defended himself this week: “I should be able to express moral [...]

Countdown to Spiritual Warfare

The DC40 prayer campaign launches today in Hawaii: state by state the “40 Days of Light and Fire over D.C.” intends to change the District of Columbia into the “District of Christ.” The 51 day prayer guide is available for download on the DC40 website. The Dominionists intend to focus their will on the statue [...]

DC40 Leaders Write an Open Letter to Pagans

The Minnesota Bureau of the Pagan Newswire Collective has published the contents of a newsletter written Prepare the Way Ministries in New Baden, IL. It is addressed to the Pagan Community: To the pagans, we write: We are well aware of the websites and blogs rallying to try and curse our effort and counter it. [...]

Yes, It’s Still Black Magic if Christians Do It

This has been a difficult post for me… Recently Terry Gross, of NPR’s Fresh Air, interviewed author Rachel Tabachnick on Dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation. Contrary to the title of the news segment “The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare,” Tabachnick stressed, Having the Southern Baptist background and growing up in the Deep South has [...]

Rick Perry’s “Response” and The Next Big Thing

It’s official: Texas Governor Rick Perry is running for the GOP presidential nomination. Pagans were alarmed by his Evangelical prayer event “The Response” which took place in Houston on August 6th. Thirty thousand people attended in person; more tuned in by streaming video. The event was even covered on Twitter. Right Wing Watch has the [...]

Dangerous, Crazy Politicians

I can’t seem get away from the subject. Right Wing Watch is reporting today on another official endorser of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s The Response prayer rally in August. According to Wikiepedia, John Hagee is founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, TX. Cornerstone is a non-denomination megachurch with more than 19,000 [...]

Full Moon, Crazy Politicians

Thursday I wrote about Governor of Texas and Presidential Wannabe Rick Perry and the God-awful company he keeps. On August 6th he is appearing a big prayer event along with the likes of David Barton who filed a “friend of the court” document with the California Supreme Court, claiming that “paganism and witchcraft were never [...]

Rick Perry’s pastor problem?

“On Faith: A Conversation on Religion and Politics with Sally Quinn” is a blog on WashingtonPost.com. On July 13, Quinn posed the question: Rick Perry’s pastor problem? Texas Governor, and possible GOP presidential candidate, Rick Perry has endorsed ‘The Response’ a prayer event scheduled for August 6 in Texas. “As a nation, we must come [...]

Your 4th of July Video

For me Lady Liberty has always been one face of Hecate, who stands at the crossroads with a torch.