Religion Dispatches
…Ig Publishing, May 2008). Feldman is a member of RD’s Advisory Council. On August 23, 2004, James Dobson appeared on Hannity and Colmes to discuss his controversial book about training young children The New Strong-Willed Child. Pro forma for his interviews on FOX, Dobson started off with a compliment to his hosts. Colmes then cut immediately to the question of violence as a “tool” in childcare, which was Dobson’s defining issue as a professional…
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…se tactics as a recourse against employers who exploited farm labor. On 28 August, 1988, Chavez terminated the fast—his longest ever at thirty-six days, a duration trumping even those undergone by Gandhi, his Indian guru. Like Gandhi, Chavez staged three public fasts, including the “Love Fast,” begun on February 14, 1968, which ended twenty-five days later with an ecumenical mass in which he broke bread with Robert Kennedy. Each of Chavez’s three…
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…sed on the recommendations, and present them to the Board of Education. In August, the board members will begin the first round of hearings to review the proposed changes. “I don’t see at all that we will divide into factions,” said new board Chairwoman Gail Lowe, seemingly rather disingenuously, in a recent newspaper interview. Lowe was one of two board members who appointed Barton to the panel of experts. A Young Earth Creationist like her prede…
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…ns that they might be associated with the Gulen network. Within weeks, the numbers had swelled to the tens of thousands. The vast network of Gulen-related schools was closed. All university professors, regardless of the institution in which they taught, were constrained from traveling outside the country. Every university dean in the country was arrested or suspended. Ordinary prisoners were set free in order to make more room in the jails for any…
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…he book supposedly authored by Flew to be highly suspect. They contained a number of Americanisms that would have been unnatural for the British-born professor, as well as contradictions of his public statements elsewhere. Flew himself told the New York Times Magazine that the book was “Roy’s doing.” The truth, which has been tracked doggedly by The Secular Web, is that he never embraced belief in a personal deity or an afterlife. In the end, Anto…
Read More…self-styled turn to the prophetic last summer and fall—which included forays into the world of Black theology and the mysteries of the Bat Creek Stone, as well as his lachrymose and prayer-scented DC Rally in August —didn’t go over so well with hardboiled conservatives in the City? Beck’s television ratings have reportedly taken a tumble for overall viewership, as have Fox News ratings in general….
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…ple in the country.” Lithuania: Anti-Gay Legislation Moves Forward Back in August, American anti-gay activist Scott Lively penned a gushy fan letter to Vladimir Putin praising his anti-gay efforts and saying “Already Lithuania, Moldova, Hungary and the Ukraine have begun to follow your principled example, and you have engendered real hope in the international pro-family movement that this destructive and degrading sexual agenda might finally begin…
Read More…l, they gave their leadership award to their choice of recipient and their August annual conference will go ahead as planned. They put Müller in the position of having to threaten to pull their canonical status, a confrontation that surely can’t be desirable to the Vatican from a PR point of view. But now the LCWR will have Sartain sitting on their shoulder reviewing everything they do and attempting to purge their materials of “feminist” themes….
Read More…e federal judge who ruled the 2008 ballot measure unconstitutional back in August. The ruling means gay and lesbian couples must continue to wait for marriage rights. The state court won’t take the issue up again until September, and then it may take three more months for the case to get back to federal court. The Courage Campaign points out that time could run out for some couples. “Ed and Derence of Palm Springs, a couple that has been together…
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On August 1st, Denise Mosier, a Benedictine nun out of northern Virginia was killed in a car accident by Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, an illegal immigrant and serial drunk driver. Mosier’s death has highlighted serious tensions between those who demand order at the border, and those insist our Christian duty includes welcoming the stranger. Is it even possible to conceive of an immigration system that is both just and generous? The day after the…
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