Spring 2006

Both Right-wing religionists and Left-wing GLBT activists have called for a boycott of the film, End of the Spear. The film presents the true story of the murders of five evangelical Christian missionaries in the jungles of Ecuador a half-century ago. Their widows stayed on and eventually reached out to their husbands’ killers who, along…

Winter 2006

Same-sex couples in the United Kingdom are now entitled to full legal benefits under the Civil Partnership Act that went into effect in December. Evangelical Alliance UK warns that the new legal provisions will morph into a marriage law in the near future. And EAUK is outraged over the Government’s allowing a reference to God…

Fall 2005

Hurricane Katrina proved to be an even bigger “blame game” inkblot for the projections of preachers than for those of politicians. Though he made his fame decades ago with end-of-the-world predictions in his The Late Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsey said (on the Trinity Broadcasting Network) that Katrina shows that “the judgment of America has…

Summer 2005

“Ex-gay” leader Frank Worthen and his wife Anita led a workshop on “Making Your Marriage Work” at this summer’s Exodus “ex-gay” conference in Virginia. Frank Worthen discussed the problem of “ex-gays’” same-sex fantasies while they try to make love with their wives. He said it would be prudent for the couple to wait a year…

Spring 2005

“I’m not going to kick gays,” he said, complaining that the Religious Right “uses gays as the enemy. … I think it’s bad for Republicans to be kicking gays.” These were the words of George W. Bush while planning his run for the Presidency. He did not realize that Doug Wead was secretly recording his…