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Monday, May 30
 
The May issue of Harper's has some great cover stories:

First, Soldiers of Christ I, by Jeff Sharlet (he also wrote Jesus Plus Nothing, and edits The Revealer, a weblog about religion and media), about Colorado Springs and the gigantic New Life Church (mentioned in the same article, check out The Mill, New Life's ministry for college students and twentysomethings (they've got Starbucks coffee at their 'cafe-style' meetings), the Royal Rangers, an evangelical alternative to the Boy Scouts, and Thomas Blackshear, a painter who is, I'm told, very popular with fundamentalist Christians).

Second, Soldiers of Christ II, by Chris Hedges (who also wrote War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and What Every Person Should Know About War) about the National Religious Broadcasters conference--even better than the time Jello Biafra visited the same conference. And when Hedges attended, Richard Kiel probably wasn't also in attendance, trying to get funding for his born-again-Bigfoot movie (not to be confused with Legend of the Desert Bigfoot, which has Focus on the Family money behind it (and did you know that James Dobson has a son who's also in the Jesus biz? Let's just say that he's no Jay Bakker).

And, partially to hit the trifecta, here's the third story: Gordon Bigelow's "Let There Be Markets: The Evangelical Roots of Economics" (some links via Metafilter).
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