Religion Dispatches
…the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, who planted Beacon Hill Church Plant in south Seattle. This grassroots community and initiative has stated to serve as a resource for Episcopal dioceses, parishes and leaders for emerging/fresh expression mission with an Anglican ethos. So that interested parties can connect with each other, she’s planned events in Portland (June 10-12) and Baltimore (September 24th-25). Concurrent with these developments, in fal…
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…” said Perry, “but a salvation agenda.” Hallelujah, and onward to Iowa and South Carolina. “Only The Lord Has All The Answers” Not everyone at Saturday’s event was convinced Perry is presidential material, but what matters is that The Response has put a glow around him. Rachel Robbins, who had traveled with her family from Fort Worth, told me she didn’t know much about Perry, but that she decided to make the trip because “the government tries to d…
Read More…ongress to do so and attempt to “block” (his word) the Supreme Court from reviewing the constitutionality of such a law. Gingrich is apparently the only one of the presidential candidates to run with George’s proposal. At a similarly styled forum in South Carolina in September, George befuddled the other candidates with his questions about his personhood idea. UPDATE: Fertilized eggs should have equal protection, but children should work as jan…
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…icant uptick in searches for one-way flights to airports near towns in the South of France and Turkey (both of which are rumored to be safe havens from the apocalypse), so everyone from scholars to journalists to NASA—even the Vatican—continue to quell worries and debunk myths. Well before we began to approach the actual date, the Maya apocalypse hysteria inspired Mark Van Stone, an expert in Mayan hieroglyphics, to write 2012: Science and Prophe…
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…jority of African Americans support safe and legal access to abortion. And African American women have the highest rate of abortion amongst all groups of American women. The reasons are not mysterious—Black women are disproportionately poor, under-employed, single and living in highly segregated communities with limited health care access which have borne the brunt of the economic depression. Due to slavery and the violent legacy of Jim Crow, Blac…
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…shment and compiles annual statistics, reports that for the most part only Southern states resumed executions. Ohio, which carried out two, was the only state outside the South to impose the death penalty in 2008.” (See the DPIC’s “The Death Penalty in 2008: Year End Report” for more information). “2008 can only be characterized as yet another rollercoaster year for the death penalty in Texas,” said TCADP Executive Director Kristin Houle. “The sta…
Read More…” its priest “alarmed.” Rev. John Echert, pastor of Holy Trinity Parish in South St. Paul, Minnesota, told LSN that he immediately broke his church’s ties with the Twin Cities group, and announced the rupture to his congregation, after learning the group had permitted open homosexuality “for years.” Although the split was amicable, he said, he was alarmed not to have known about the Council’s divergence from national policy earlier. While LifeSite…
Read More…d-country songs, prayer, and speeches about the causes their organizations promote. Liberty Counsel, the Christian right legal group headed by Liberty University Law School Dean Mat Staver, was the lead co-sponsor. Others included the Florida Family Action, which spearheaded the anti-gay marriage measure that passed here in 2008; the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, an offshoot of the American Principles Project, founded by Manhatta…
Read More…nd attitudes” of each state, I can guarantee that residents of my state of South Carolina would continue to hold slaves—never mind having separate drinking fountains. No matter how scholars like Perry want to spin it, the role of the Supreme Court is to uphold the Constitution. For any legal scholar, no matter how long his resume or how distinguished his career, to argue otherwise is to reveal an agenda that undermines the very Constitution the Co…
Read More…We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost… When attempting to sort through the controversy over Wright’s remarks, there seems little reason to linger over the comments about September 11, which do not differ greatly from those offered by a noted whi…
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