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Biblical Patriarchy Activists Name Michelle Duggar Mother of the Year

…to have a lot of kids; in one episode we see their resourcefulness as they shop for baby clothes at a thrift store. Absent from the screen, and smoothed over in the public representation of the “Baby Conference” (as well as in much of the homeschool movement in which the Duggars work with Phillips and Vision Forum) is the specter of biblical patriarchy, which is completely at odds with contemporary notions about the roles and the rights of women….

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An Unholy Holy Week: Is the All-Male Rule of the Roman Catholic Church Self-Destructing?

…in Essen sent him to Munich for treatment and trusted the office of Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger to make sure this predator was not around children. No one challenged the code of deference to those higher up and obedience to the rule of secrecy. Now we have “the largest institutional crisis in centuries, possibly in Church history,” declares the National Catholic Reporter in an editorial. The New York Times, which broke the story of abuse at the d…

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Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

…hived on the “Retirement Gig” page of The Ziggy Stardust Companion, http://www.5years.com/Retire.htm. 3Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (New York: Anchor Books, 2007), pps. 221-2. 4See “Motivation and Mental Health” section of the Wikipedia entry on Mark David Chapman, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman#Motivation_and_mental_health. 5Lester Bangs, “Notes for Review of Peter Guralnick…

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Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

Imagine standing in a copy shop, running off copies of a book you wrote. You have to distribute it yourself, and you cannot keep up with demand. Sometimes you get paid for the labor of copying and mailing. That was Michael Muhammad Knight before his novel The Taqwacores found a publisher. In 2003, Knight was pushing out an underground novel that spoke to a generation of Muslim-American youth who had no cultural home. There were pot-smoking, prayi…

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Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

…nto daily life. The ubiquity of consumer culture represents a cataclysmic “Shopocalypse.” Mickey Mouse is the Antichrist. Such language has the imaginative scope to reach outside the here and now, while also the familiarity to make it feel like it might, in fact, be true. “If Bloomberg wins in New York City, it is the triumph of corporate capitalism in New York City,” says Durkee. But, with his collar on, Reverend Billy describes the mayor more bl…

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Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

…n two distinct realities. Leaving the parking lot that day, I spied a junk shop for tourists across the road. When the traffic finally cleared, I noticed flying side by side were the American and the Confederate flags. Greatest Idea Evah Darwin revealed so much of who we are, even though about half of Americans refuse to accept those roots. He has been demonized by religious fundamentalists, who absurdly have attempted to link him to eugenics and…

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Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

…site. Neither! In fact, they come from the keyboards over at Lou Sheldon’s shop, the long-lived Traditional Values Coalition. So here’s a troika of recent stories from the TVC : “Obamunist Nominee Gave U.S. Port To Communists”—How Leon Panetta, Obama’s appointee to head the CIA, “is the greatest gift Obama could give to Islamic terrorists around the globe”; “‘Czars And The Obama Administration”—“These czars will be accountable to him alone and no…

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RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody

…pters are devoted to holding himself up as the representative of those who shop at Wal-Mart and not Neiman Marcus; of those who eat at The Waffle House rather than Ruth’s Chris Steak House; of those who watch Touched By an Angel and not Desperate Housewives. He expends several pages rehashing old campaign attacks on his record from the Club for Growth and several more pages striking back at National Review for their opposition to talk that John Mc…

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Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

…self-described ex-hippie named Herb who frequents the East Atlanta coffee shop where I often study. Perhaps noticing the text on Buddhism sitting beside me, he asked, out of the blue, something like, “So do you know about the cataclysmic event that’s gonna happen tomorrow night?” “Which one?’ I responded, thinking he was referencing the economy, or the election, or the environment, or just about anything else that has been in the news recently. I…

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“I ‘Came Out’ For Marriage Equality”: An Anti-Gay Activist Changes His Mind

…mewhere in the United States. Not sure exactly where we’re going to set up shop, but we’re looking at all the options. It’s pretty much an open field; see what happens and play it by ear, and hope for the best. We’re not going to give any Chamber of Commerces your address, because they might want to talk with you. Listen, I’ve got one other question: let’s say you run into someone on the street, or have a seat by someone on the plane, and they say…

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