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London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…emerging as a more pointed political indictment from many less mainstream commentators: …with the complicit support of the government, the banks looted the nation’s wealth while destroying countless small businesses and brought the whole economy to its knees in a covert, clean manner, rather like organised crime… These kids would have to riot and steal every night for a year to run up a bill equivalent to the value of non-paid tax big business ha…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…months is a short gestation even for a newbie pope. But waiting quickly becomes complicity when there is so much at stake—so many lives to be enhanced and spirits to be warmed, so much damage to be undone and suffering to be prevented. As we saw with the rapid exit of Pope Benedict XVI, popes come and go. Older people do not live and cannot work forever. So, while I wish Francis “multos annos,” I am realistic enough to know that what he does to b…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…outline of Barton’s recent show: These lectures are the most theologically complete assessment of early American history available, R.J. Rushdoony reveals a foundation of American History of philosophical and theological substance. This series extends through 1865, the year that marked the beginning of the secular attempts to rewrite history. There can be no understanding of American History without an understanding of the ideas which undergirded…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…d the first counting device in Europe to function digitally—even the first computer. In a chronology of computer history, Gerbert’s abacus is one of only four innovations mentioned between 3000 BC and the invention of the slide rule in 1622. Like a modern scientist, Gerbert questioned authority. He experimented. To learn which of two rules best calculated the area of an equilateral triangle, he cut out square inches of parchment and measured the…

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…evelopers of approved projects the sales tax paid by visitors on admission tickets, food, gift sales and lodging costs. Developers have 10 years to reach the 25 percent threshold. Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says there are concerns over the project, but it’s too early to tell whether the proposed business incentives would be unconstitutional in that it would involve excessive entanglement with r…

Niqab and Short Shorts

By Hussein Rashid

…of protest is to wear the niqab and nothing else. Then, the women will get tickets, not for being nude, but for being clothed. In my opinion, that would show the absolute absurdity of the state trying to control women’s dress. I have written elsewhere that this sort of action, of controlling a woman’s body, is simply male penis worship run amok. These ladies, who call themselves Niqabitches, have done a great service in showing the inherent contra…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…mocratic deficit hawks, insist that any extension be “deficit neutral” and come out of unspent stimulus money. But it’s worse than that: the price Senate Republicans want to extract for helping the jobless includes extending an array of special tax breaks for business while slashing spending at a range of federal agencies. Let it be noted that Congress has never before let unemployment benefits expire while the official jobless rate remains at suc…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…f course Sarah Palin. Catholics and religious right leaders have long made common cause on abortion but the cultural differences between the two groups is strongly discernible. Heroic Media uses television, websites and billboards to promote alternatives to abortion. Compared to much of the pro-life movement, theirs is “soft.” That is, as an organization, they are not explicitly working to end legal abortion (I’m not arguing they don’t support…

New Poll Shows: White Evangelicals Are Still Dancing With the One That Brung ‘Em

By Anita Little

…gave me a modicum of hope that a sea change was happening. https://twitter.com/GraceC_9/status/839954624127840257 https://twitter.com/sofiepearl61/status/839835075785199616 https://twitter.com/PoshPlunder/status/829417751328542720 Though the all-caps invectives provide a healthy dose of schadenfreude, there seems to be a doubling down of sorts happening offline. In a widely circulated story last month, Rev. Joel Tooley of Florida described his un…

Islam is as American as…

By Peter Manseau

…fear so much. In light of yesterday’s attack on Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, three Muslim students in North Carolina, I offered a few thoughts on Twitter about just how American Islam is. Islam is as American as basketball. pic.twitter.com/O6IcSkxvy1 — peter manseau (@petermanseau) February 11, 2015 Islam is as American as dancing with dad at your wedding. pic.twitter.com/HZL7fRzWFC — peter manseau (@peterman…