Religion Dispatches
…y as Distinguished Senior Fellow and director of the Program for Faith and Service at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR). Hein had headed the White House Office from August 2006 until September 2008. TVC’s last ditch slam against Obama: If the past is prologue, then one of the final anti-Obama e-mails sent out by Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition possibly sets the stage for what is to come from the religious right…
Read More…ffect on any of the indicators of military capability,” adds Belkin, whose center has thoroughly studied the impact of having lifted the gay bans in Britain, Israel, Canada and Australia. Perhaps the most striking thing that Belkin and his group found was that in Canada, sexual harassment of service women fell 46 percent when the gay ban disappeared. Would-be harassers realized women were now “free to report assaults without fear that they would b…
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…erals are up in arms about that.” I just quoted no less than MSNBC and the Center for American Progress on this very point above, and you’ll find much more at such liberal bastions as The Nation and Mother Jones, and other outlets. So who exactly are these liberals that Prothero is talking about? It’s anybody’s guess. This is an especially confusing aspect of the op-ed; at a certain point in the piece, his “liberal friends” (whoever they are) get…
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…ldview, but as a series of false claims of God-given pronouncements in the service of political and other opportunities. (Hume and others think that this is more grift than the gift of prophecy.) Hume’s purist approach is not only intolerant of charismatics, but much of what passes for modern conservatism. He writes that “these movements and personalities,” including ReAwaken America, MAGA, Julie Green, and Sean Feucht, “present an extremely shall…
Read More…ia, Uganda, Qatar, Belarus, China and Bangladesh. The ‘controversy’ at the center of the resolution concerned the intent of the resolution itself. Was it to protect the family, or was it to use the language of protecting the family to actually target those who were vulnerable to abuse within families including children, women and LGBTI persons? More from Narrain’s analysis: It is possible to surmise that the resolution at its heart was premised on…
Read More…ty of this hurried vote may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and Service members.” Blomberg continued, “We hope that our nation’s leaders will work to ensure that none of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines are ever made to choose between serving their country or obeying their God as result of this damaging policy decision. And ADF stands ready to defend Service members if they are ever unconstitutionally required to make that cho…
Read More…, I would remind that Teilhard envisions humanity brought together through center-to-center unions. In terms of mysticism, this means you cannot dissolve the self in union because the self, the center, is the very substance of the union. And if every individual is the very substance of union, then over-emphasizing hierarchy or exclusion in Teilhardian thought is a mistake. Teilhard calls racism “collective egoism.” This egoism works against progre…
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…, Angela Kelley, Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, described the National Association of Evangelicals and its Latino affiliate, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, as “two of the most powerful voices” from the faith community on immigration reform. Mary Giovagnoli, Director of the Immigration Policy Center, who at one time worked for the late Senator Ted Kennedy,…
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…my senior year plastering every dorm we could with fliers for the Islamic Center at NYU’s first event of the year. We slipped into the dorms we couldn’t get signed into, and posted hundreds of cheap notices printed on 8.5 x 11 paper. We’d invited a prominent imam to speak and ordered a delicious dinner, convinced that the perpetually elastic undergraduate stomach would be the gateway to the soul. The next morning, the World Trade Center and the P…
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…i law that rape victims are because SNAP is not, they claim, a rape crisis center. What they said, you’ll see in the deposition, is “Mr. Clohessy, we’re not trying to find out who gives to your organization or who your organization helps or who you’ve been in touch with. We’re not trying to get victims names.” And yet they spent a huge chunk of the deposition trying to eviscerate SNAP’s protection under the rape crisis law. Have there been compara…
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