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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…r Josephine Keane, 45, is sexually assaulted and stabbed to death inside a storeroom at Lewis-Champlin elementary school in Chicago. Lee Arthur Hester, a 14-year-old student, is later convicted of the murder and sentenced to 55 years in prison. • October 17, 1961, Denver, Colorado. Tennyson Beard, 14, got into an argument with William Hachmeister, 15, at Morey Junior High School. During the argument Beard pulled out a .38 caliber revolver and shot…

I Know Why a Rain Dance Won’t End The Drought

By Johnny P. Flynn

…west. The biggest fire in Arizona history is slowly burning itself out and Colorado has seen fires devastate the fringes of urban areas south of Denver. The American consumer is looking at higher prices as corn crops across the Midwest are dying in the fields. This is the context in which Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack recently said: “I get on my knees every day… and I’m saying an extra prayer now. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I co…

All Candy, No Jesus: Halloween in America

By Mary Valle

…de la Torre, Professor of Social Ethics at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, relayed a story told to him by a Protestant pastor. This man was in Mexico doing missionary work and had, for many years, refused to participate in annual Day of the Dead celebrations. He complained about the money that the people spent on candles and lamented their engagement with what he saw as “evil.” However, the year his father died, he reluctantly we…

How the Religious Left, or Whatever It’s Called, Failed at the Budget Big Game

By Sarah Posner

…emocrats, once again, celebrating a Republican idea: that the Establishment Clause is a petty inconvenience, especially when you’re positioning yourself as the one swooping in to rescue the needy . . . from the recklessness of your political party. Speaking in Colorado, DuBois said, according to the Denver Post, “If your focus is first and foremost serving people in need, then there’s not a tremendous amount of time left to debate the finer points…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…e rally-goers, and it also urged attendees to bring food donations for the Denver Rescue Mission. At the rally itself, there was no sustained talk about the spiritual or political effects of the global financial crisis, but there was a call to support something called the Hatikvah Project, which works to alleviate poverty among Messianic Jews in Israel (who, we were told, are poor because their families and nation reject them as apostates). Americ…

Focus on the Family’s Conversation Starter a Non-Starter

By Sarah Posner

…s say they want abortion to be legal, safe and rare, Daly said, and so his Colorado Springs-based media powerhouse will try to walk that common ground with them — lessening demand for abortion. The “let’s talk” offer to reproductive-rights groups signals a sea change in Focus’ uncompromising approach to the abortion issue. It is bound to engender controversy about whether detente advances or hinders Daly’s ultimate goal of making abortion illegal….

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…. The first time I encountered it was at Ted Haggard’s New Life Church, in Colorado Springs. When I asked for a restaurant recommendation, I was warned to steer clear of downtown, no matter what I did; urban areas, New Lifers told me, are rife with demons. It was no accident, one New Lifer told me this past spring, that Pastor Ted’s downfall occurred up in Denver, surely a sister city of Sodom. That view, it should be remembered, is very much a mi…

Goodbye, (Mythic) Columbus

By Ira Chernus

…ade is the nation’s largest. It surely has been the most controversial; as Colorado’s large Native American rights movement often confronts the paraders. When I watched the proceedings a few years ago, though my sympathies were certainly with the protesters, I was surprised to find a different kind of sympathy for the paraders, too. They were all white folks, mostly Italian-Americans, riding in cars and on cheaply-made floats, trying to create an…

Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting

By Jeffrey Scholes

…pressed after scoring low on exams in his PhD program at the University of Colorado. Or he must have had a rough upbringing. Or the common refrain: he’s simply psychotic, and no verifiable reason for the shooting will ever be discovered. The responses from religious commentators, scholars, and pastors have a similar range. Shootings like this will continue because of our increasing desensitization to violent images, one Patheos blogger argued, whi…

The Angel of Death and Pam Tebow

By Sarah Posner

…fetus to be a person and ban some types of birth control) on the ballot in Colorado, has cut a shocking two-minute video in which President Obama morphs from himself to the Joker to the Angel of Death (via Kyle at Right Wing Watch). Remember when we were told that there was a new movement afoot, a softer, gentler kind of anti-choice activism exemplified by the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad? Pam Tebow has endorsed Personhood Colorado and Amendment 62. So…