Search for "VIPREG2024 one x bet promo code New Zealand"

New Report: Angels & Aliens in Texas Schools

By Mark A. Chancey

…ed that they provide it with their course materials. TFN then asked me to examine the accumulated boxes of syllabi, tests, handouts, lecture notes, and PowerPoint presentations for academic quality and evenhandedness toward diverse religious sensibilities (full disclosure: I was compensated for my efforts, though I’m otherwise unaffiliated with TFN). I was interested in the extent to which schools succeeded in meeting the bar set for them by feder…

Masculine Christianity, Praying Ballplayers, & Satanist Discrimination

By Michael J. Altman

…cilities, this will be more attractive to young people.” The building of a new mosque near New York’s Ground Zero is becoming a political football in that state’s governor’s race. Discrimination is also a problem for Satanists—or, for one particular Satanist, at least. Irving Davis, a convicted murderer, argues that his conviction be thrown out because his foray into Satanism should not have been revealed to the jury. Hearing the appeal, Judge Mic…

Spinning But Not Religious: Inside the New Economy of Spiritual Fitness

By Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst

…ave any thoughts about how race factors into the realm of the business of exercise. What do you make, for example, of the appropriation of “Eastern” traditions like yoga, meditation, and the Color Run? I dealt more with socio-economic aspects rather than race, and I do think that this [is] a very affluent trend. One of the [topics] that I explore is how the fitness boom is happening at a time [when] we’re also seeing the highest obesity rates in h…

New York City a Glenn Beck Radio Free Zone (for now)

By Joanna Brooks

…dboiled conservatives in the City? Beck’s television ratings have reportedly taken a tumble for overall viewership, as have Fox News ratings in general….

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…him win the Republican nomination and the presidency by vouching for the Nixon/Agnew ticket to other former Southern Democrats. It was Reagan, who later cemented the alliance between White Southerners and the GOP. This so-called “Southern Strategy” would not only remake the GOP but the entire political landscape of the U.S. And, as was emphasized in a recent town hall event, Thurmond’s efforts are echoed, albeit in a subtler way, in that of anothe…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…elpful for those who truly want to know. And the knowledge gives them context. For example, Christians really want to know about the very early days of Christianity; they want to learn something about what we can know about the historical Jesus and what we can’t, and what words he said and what words he didn’t say. And this kind of knowledge about religions can be abused. People will quote scripture out of context, and having that knowledge of wha…

Unauthorized Catholic Immigrants will Renew a Christian America, Archbishop Says

By Marie Friedmann Marquardt

…etails with many of their own sensibilities, Archbishop Gomez may win over new—and, frankly, unexpected—recruits for the battle over immigration reform, reaching the very Catholics that so readily dismissed Cardinal Mahoney’s brave (and, for readers of RD, probably more easily digestible) tactics. But that remains to be seen. If they do join the battle, let’s hope they bring along a few bottles of good wine. The Catholics in the trenches, who h…

Gays Punked by New UCC Ad

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ncing two women married – the women turn to one another and … cut to the next scene. Wait! What? I get to see two hot young heterosexuals kiss, but when the moment comes for two women to celebrate their union I get … a quick cut away. Avert your eyes, people … the lesbians might kiss! You’re welcome here, just don’t do THAT! Oh, UCC … how you have disappointed me. Was the kiss in the original cut and then left out because someone said, “Oh, we can…

Queer [Theory]-Bashing by Georgia Republicans; The New Know-Nothingism Creeps

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…risk are undertaken far more casually. A study of the sociology of oral sexual expression thus possesses the very greatest public health significance; it is not offering students a chance to “talk dirty” on the public dime. Next, we learned about an important study first published in the New England Journal of Medicine, one examining the role of male prostitution in rates of HIV transmission, a study bearing enormous significance in a state like…

Tyler Perry’s Museum of Blackness

By Sevonna Brown

…t were not prepared for the terrible taste it would leave in our mouths—I expected to see a new plot with old messages but instead I was perplexed by a painful glimpse of Perry’s money-making machine. To describe Perry’s enterprise as a financial force in its own right is not at all an oversimplification. To date, Perry’s thirteen films, which include Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005), Madea’s Family Reunion (2006), Why Did I Get Married (2007), a…