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Sinner, You Better Get Ready…

By Lauri Lebo

…e years back in a bar packed with young 20-something hipsters, all of them in awe over seeing this gospel icon in person. Who says young kids today don’t appreciate great music? Video after the jump….

Muslims Need Not Apply—To the White House or Congress

By Julie Ingersoll

…ument is the prohibition against a religious test for public office. The structure of loose affiliation among Tea Party groups (and the “herd of cats” style of the tea partiers themselves) allows tea partiers to say all kinds of distorted and extreme things which can then be denied by other tea partiers. The result for those of us trying to follow the movement is that every time we write about something extreme, it’s dismissed with “well, every mo…

All Americans are Fat!

By Jan Visser

…t across, right? Perhaps, but I apologize for saying something that isn’t true. Santorum’s Euthanasia Claims You know what else isn’t true? That in the Netherlands 5% of all deaths are cases of ‘involuntary euthanasia.’ This was just one among several staggering claims made by Rick Santorum in an interview with James Dobson at the American Heartland Forum earlier this month. In the video [below, right] he claims that it’s common practice in the Ne…

Polling Place as Sacred Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…anity and/or Fear, came ringing in my ears. Stewart spoke these words as a video of cars merging in traffic was being shown on the jumbo screens: These cars – that’s a schoolteacher who probably thinks his taxes are too high. He’s going to work. There’s another car — a woman with two small kids who can’t really think about anything else right now. There’s another car, swinging, I don’t even know if you can see it — the lady’s in the NRA and she lo…

Gay Marriage Supporters Rally People of Faith for Washington’s November Vote

By Nicole Neroulias

…working with us now.” Discussions during the phone bank covered the Golden Rule, whether the Leviticus view of homosexuality as an abomination also extended to eating shrimp, and how civil marriage licenses are distinct from religious weddings. Most of the calls lasted mere seconds, with people not home or not interested. After an hour working the phones, Scott Holley, 33, cheerfully noted that he had become “unfazed by rejection” during his two-y…

Will Religion Solve the Obesity Crisis?

By Andrew Aghapour

…o an existing theory that self-control can be “depleted,” and affirms our frustration with friends who won’t stop offering seconds. The ACC/DLPFC divide also contributes to the finding (reported by The New Yorker’s Jonah Lehrer) that simple mental tricks can dramatically improve our ability to delay gratification. If we pretend that the chocolate cake in front of us is made out of plastic, for example, we can trick our ACC into assessing and evalu…

Rehabilitating McCarthy: Doug Phillips’ Festival Award

By Julie Ingersoll

…dealization of pre-1960s America invoked by the use of old photographs and video (including comments from a young Ronald Reagan) and hints of some cold war style conspiring, ominous dark cloud-filled skies and black and white photos of people persecuted by 20th century communists. There are also documents from Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee in a context that seems to suggest we should return to the era in which “real Amer…

Meditation is the Multi-Tasker’s Answer

By Andrew Aghapour

…is a great way to get more work for the same pay. In study after study, meditation is getting drawn into both of these goals. Perhaps the lotus position is coming to a training video near you. In related news, I have a business idea for meditation cushions made out of recycled power ties. Any investors?…

The Truth in Transgender: Will the Episcopal Church Amend Its Rules?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…people’s lives day-to-day. Transgender folks, as they walk down the street today, in major cities, in America, are at risk for significant violence. The Episcopal Church has an opportunity to help lift that burden.” If past experience is any indicator, Bishop Gray-Reeves is almost certainly right that the delegates to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church will likely put the brakes on any decisive changes to the Church’s rules for partici…

Conservative Republican Muslim Condemns Fox Report on Congressional Staffers as “Anti-Muslim Bigotry”

By Sarah Posner

…ited after he went to Yemen and became an al Qaeda leader.” The reason why video of the events exist, Khan said, is that as a community the staffers decided the prayer events should be open to the public. Reporters from all over the world have attended the prayer events, he said, and during both the Bush and Obama administrations, the State Department has regularly sent delegations of foreign visitors because “they want to showcase religious freed…