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Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…nd or vacation themed. In any case, I like to take note. And, as a special bonus, today my friend, the Pittsburgh poet Ellen McGrath Smith, posted a really wonderful little poem as her status (On the peonies/ants are running errands/Petal by petal they fall off the globe). I burned maybe thirty minutes on all this digital sociality before I saw that the venerable scholar of ancient church history, Rebecca Lyman, had posted a characteristically wis…

Exit Polls on Religion

By Sarah Posner

…they were white born again Christian or evangelical. The exit poll has Romney winning among white Protestants, who make up 41% of voters, 75-25%, among white Catholics (11%), 64-33%, but Obama is winning 89% of non-whites (33% of the electorate). Bonus point of interest in the Virginia exit poll: Obama is winning among voters who attend religious services weekly (44% of voters), 51-49%, among those who attend occasionally (36%), 53-47%, and among…

Meet Wyoming’s Anti-Shari’ah Crusader

By Sarah Posner

…partners of government employees?” with “oppose,” and added the additional bonus of, “I oppose co-habitation of all sorts.” He supports an amendment to the U.S. Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. He supports requiring teachers “to present the evidences both supportive of and contradictory to the theory of evolution.” And in response to the question on abortion, he said it should never be allowed, adding, “Life comes f…

Breivik’s Christianity About Culture Not Piety

By Julie Ingersoll

…ure. The media and academia are “the enemy” and the Marxism he claims they promote is at the root of an impending social collapse of Western Christendom. And he is vitriolic in his Islamophobia. Breivik apparently was baptized a Protestant, and he does use the Bible, though he does not do so in the way fundamentalists do. In fact, he is explicit that sola scriptura leads to “incipient subjectivism:” The Protestant doctrine of Sola Scriptura (by sc…

All Candy, No Jesus: Halloween in America

By Mary Valle

…ies: All Souls’ Day on November 1, and All Saints’ Day on November 2. As a bonus, October 31 marks the kickoff of the Reformation, when Luther posted his theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, in large part to protest the Church’s sale of indulgences. Halloween is a little troublesome to me as well—mostly because it’s just gotten so commercial. I like it as more of a handcrafted, neighborhoody children’s frolic, rather than an excu…

How the Catholic Church Broke the Health Insurance it Advocated For

By Patricia Miller

…h care that humans with ovaries and vaginas use, were some kind of special bonus health care coverage that wasn’t included in “regular” insurance? The culprit might just be the Catholic Church. It was the Catholic Church after all that created the very first carve-out from health insurance when its own lobbyist crafted the Hyde Amendment that prevented Medicaid from paying for most abortions on the grounds that taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for…

Memo To Kathleen Parker on ‘Father Sky’ Reference in Tucson Memorial

By Daniel Schultz

…ally? Really? No no, I can top that: “Brother Fire.” Best of all: “Sister Bodily Death.” Who comes up with this crap? Oh, wait. A major Christian saint came up with that crap (Hint: He died in Assisi). As a bonus, he talked about “Mother Earth.” You may find that it’s helpful to know something about a subject before you start talking about it. Just a suggestion. Hugs and kisses, Pastor Dan …

The Islamophobia Industrial Complex

By Sarah Posner

…will draw strength from a greater power to defeat its enemy. And, for some bonus Islamophobia — remember all of this? Now, while evangelicals might be more likely to watch Fox News, and more likely to fear shari’ah, if Fox is just repeating, recycling, or regurgitating the Islamophobia — dressed up as “speaking the truth” — that they are already used to hearing, are these evangelical Fox viewers learning something, or is Fox just reinforcing what…

A Room Without Rants

By Andrew Pessin

…, in other words, when the conversers are reasonable non-ranters who, as a bonus, often swallow before speaking. Don’t just take my word for it: ask such thinkers as the Jewish Maimonides, the Christian Aquinas, and the Muslim Averroes. (Though taking my word affords you the benefit of dealing with fewer therefores and reductios, not to mention a whole lot less Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic respectively.) Or don’t take anyone’s word for it. Think it t…

Pop Star Ke$ha Punks Westboro Baptist Church

By Evan Derkacz

…hear, WBC members sang: Your hearts are turning hard God smacks this world of ours He’ll tear it all apart You think you’re superstars God hates who you are! Your proud and Bible dumb Your consciences are numb In God’s eyes you are dung You think you’re superstars God hates who you are! Bonus! Turns out the WBC has literally dozens of parodies you can listen to on its website, everything from Rogers and Hammerstein to Miley Cyrus. What strikes you…