Search for "how to find cheap airline tickets flexible dates phone number 1-800-299-7264"

Damn You Auto-Correct: Creationist Edition

By Lauri Lebo

…that the provision that permits “supplemental materials” in Texas is more flexible than for textbooks. Rather than meet all the new standards, the material only has to address some of them. Additionally, the materials aren’t purchased by the state, as with textbooks in Texas. Instead, materials approved by the board may be bought by local school districts. Former board member and young earth creationist Don McLeroy made clear the provision’s inte…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…, “Jerusalem,” for Netanyahu and his supporters, seems to be an infinitely flexible term. As a recent Forward editorial put it: But which Jerusalem does Prime Minister Netanyahu refer to? Before 1967, most of what we now consider Jerusalem was not part of the city, East or West, but part of the West Bank. Israel annexed twenty-eight Palestinian villages after the Six Day War, dramatically expanding the traditional footprint, which has expanded fur…

Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

…y are even more important in this 2012 election, where the Republican candidates, in their desperation to be on top, have not hesitated to play the Willie Horton race card—whether it is Newt Gingrich’s ridiculous racist statement that President Obama is the Food Stamp President, or Rick Santorum’s declaration that he doesn’t “want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go ou…

Is ‘Beyond Doubt’ Correct About the Decline of Religion? Yes… Sort Of.

By Lucas McCracken

…studies, which depend on precise categories, we have to keep our language flexible so we can accurately understand what’s going on in the world. We all ask ourselves what’s real and how best to know reality. We all wonder about the good life and what makes things right and wrong. If the word “religion” means belief in supernatural forces, then the authors do demonstrate that people all over the world are increasingly doing these things without “r…

Evangelicals Struggle With the Role of Churches in Society

By Omri Elisha

…teadfast in their faith, socially engaged evangelicals can be surprisingly flexible in their attitudes about things like inner-city development and social justice once they are exposed to new experiences and perspectives. Is there anything you had to leave out? Tons. The beauty of observational fieldwork is you are left with an abundance of observations, memories, and sources, from which you then have to form a coherent analysis. By the same token…

What Does it Mean to Call “God” a White Racist?

By Willie James Jennings

…d quick solution to our fears, and that there is a God-given natural racial order to this world. Anyone who accepts these precepts is following a god who is powerful, flexible and moves around America as if he owns it. That god is, as Dr. Butler pointed out, a white racist….

Want Straight Talk on the Romney-Rosen Mommy Wars?

By Joanna Brooks

…ce.” Economic realities make motherhood, as Butterworth described it, “the number one risk factor for poverty in America.” Pointing out the incredible economic vulnerability of stay-at-home mothers, Butterworth wrote: “We invest time and money and energy and resources into things we truly value. We build museums to house valuable works of art. We build giant sports complexes to house our valuable entertainment opportunities. We build giant road sy…

For Douthat, Church Either Uncompromising or a Secular Den of Promiscuity and Irrelevance

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…f the goodness of her heart because she thinks kids today—with their fancy phones and their Facespace-or-whatever-it’s-called—need to see someone like her. Maybe it will inspire them to something better in life. Of course, it’s not really their fault. It’s the parents. They’re too permissive, and they work far too many hours, and they’re not reliable, and they don’t limit screen time, and even the liberal ones do activism all wrong. She and her fr…

The Corrections: Douthat Edition

By Evan Derkacz

…m,” he makes the following point: Douthat writes the Episcopal Church is “flexible to the point of indifference on dogma, friendly to sexual liberation in almost every form, willing to blend Christianity with other faiths, and eager to downplay theology entirely in favor of secular political causes.” To underscore his point, Douthat links to a Christianity Today piece about a former Episcopal priest who also embraces Islam and a one-time candidat…

May GOP Save Us From Chaos: Mircea Eliade on Election 2010

By Ira Chernus

…er words, a lot of voters see chaos all around them. So they vote for candidates who seem most able to stem the growing tide of chaos? “Seem” is the key word. As Matt Bai wrote about newly-elected politicians: “They find themselves sucked into the capital’s partisan culture, caught up in familiar debates while the people who supported them struggle with a growing sense of chaos. And so the voters rebel again.” That’s why the electorate seems to sh…