Religion Dispatches
…on a national level of what is happening and who is responsible. Whether the first anniversary of Jan 6 will bring further violence is unknown, but what is knowable is that without accountability, there will be no peace….
Read More…testified in her deposition that Ingersoll “came in and we were just chitchatting and he said that he was going to get married. Wanted something really simple, khaki I believe he said. And I just put my hands on his and told him that because of my relationship with Jesus Christ I couldn’t do that, I couldn’t do his wedding.” In other words, Ingersoll didn’t ask Stutzman to “help organize” his wedding, nor did Stutzman tell him she loved him. He a…
Read More…get a hold of some of their to-do lists which should give you an idea of what they’re up to these days. Jim Wallis 1. Keep digging until hit common ground 2. Give Glenn Beck a noogie 3. Clean up donkey dung in Senate chambers 4. Register God to vote 5. Email Bono that just joined R(ED) Glenn Beck 1. Give Jim Wallis a wedgie 2. Order assclown costume 3. Bring cotton candy to the media circus 4. Conduct taste test to find best chalk 5. Buy extra-st…
Read More…this video. Peterson, who appeared in a cowboy hat and boots and claimed that President Obama “hates America,” led Dave Weigel to tweet, “This episode of “Hee-Haw” was brought to you by WorldNetDaily.” Peterson made clear he was invited here by the Family Research Council’s Tom McCluskey. Peterson not only thinks Obama hates America, he also doesn’t believe Obama was born in the United States. I asked him that after his appearance, and here’s his…
Read More…ut 11% of working Americans, compared to roughly 20-25% of the population that is evangelical—but as we know, religious practice is on the decline in the US*, and boy, it sure looks like organized labor has been mightily energized by the events of the past couple of weeks. What’s more, the strongest correlation with voting is racial, not religious. Not only do blacks vote overwhelmingly Democratic, but Hispanics—the fastest growing demographic in…
Read More…o I made my way out and retraced my steps back to my spot. Well, at least that is what I needed to do—but this is where those instructions on how to keep yourself sane would have been useful. Try to place yourself somewhere and note with markers where you are so you can retrace your steps. The mosque is gigantic, full of beautiful and elaborate designs, with an immense number of repetitions to them. The stairs and the escalators are deceiving, tak…
Read More…adio show was on illegal immigration. Barton donned his “biblical scholar” hat to inform us that, “its God, not man, who establishes the borders of nations.” Citing Deuteronomy 32:8, he said: When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he’s the one who set up boundaries for the nations. National boundaries are set by God; he is the one who drew up the lines for the nations. If you have open borders you say,…
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…h you will feel instantly happy and at home. No, not at home. Better than that. So that you will feel like you are in paradise. Such utopias are rare. And the kind of utopians who devote themselves to their sustenance and care are rarer still. I had the supreme good fortune of meeting one such utopian, an old and dear personal friend, for cocktails at the Veggera, as the Ionian sun drifted lazily into the sea. It was the sort of scene before which…
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…might fear is the pleasure, but then we want to rationalize it by saying that what we really fear is its effect on our health. Should we respect that fear, even if the evidence doesn’t always back it up? I feel like its acceptable right now to critique New Age eating habits, but I would never do the same about, say, kashrut or halal diets. I have no problem with religious diets. What I have a problem with is religious diets masquerading as scient…
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…scientists were also casting their “faith in things not seen.” It’s just that what they “saw” was perceived to run counter to the Roman Catholic faith, and its more traditional way of making sense of the world of the senses. Whether the Church’s problem was ultimately the new math, the new science, or the new Protestants, is an open question that these volumes are content to leave open. What they propose to look at instead are the Church’s proced…
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