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Bipolar Faith, an Autobiography of Race and Mental Illness

…r of the book. When the publishers presented the idea to me, I gave them a list of all the memoirs without the author’s face on the cover. They gave me a comparable list of memoirs that have the author’s face on the cover. Between the Atlanta-based photographer Anne Simone and cover designer Brad Norr, I felt confident that they could put together something appropriate and poignant. The photo on the cover was caught between posed pictures when I g…

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Bad Karma: Life Lessons From Earl

…e will use this principle to turn his life around. He puts together a long list of wrongs committed and begins the process of correcting for past, harmful behavior. The numerous awards won over four seasons suggest something of the show’s appeal. Earl, an unlikely convert to ethics of reconciliation, stumbles through various attempts to reconcile self-interest and the needs of others. The line between sacred and profane, “right” and “wrong,” is bl…

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Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born

…on personal rights is contrary to the spirit of Christ”; and, in a pronatalist turn of phrase that recalls the rhetoric of the Quiverfull conviction, their willingness to “receive children as a blessing from the Lord.” Finally, in a reference to the importance of woman-to-woman mentoring within the conservative church, they affirmed that “mature Christian women” are obliged to disciple the next generation of Christian wives, training them in matt…

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Evangelical Stephen Baldwin’s Imitatio Christi & “Reality” TV

Over the last year or two, I’ve become an unironic, unapologetic fan of reality TV. I know the criticisms—they dumb us down, they elevate public humiliation—but what I’m really interested in is the way shows like Spike’s Joe Schmo Show or VH1’s I Love Money turn into morality plays about the value of friendship and loyalty. In the best reality shows, the initial rush of schadenfreude is gradually replaced with a genuine affection for the “good gu…

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Breivik’s Religious Pluralist Vision: A COEXIST Bumper Sticker Without the Crescent

…every civilization and religious identity was united against the two. In a list of “Future Military Service Medals,” for his new Europe, Breivik describes the “Multi-Cultural Force Medal” that would be awarded “for military cooperation with nationalist Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and/or atheist forces (non-European) on Hindu, Buddhist or Jewish territory. These efforts must be directed against Jihadi or cultural Marxist forces, personnel or interests…

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C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

…if at least half didn’t mention Coe, don’t include him. Well, Coe made the list, at number four, pictured with Bush, Sr., under the headline, “The Stealth Persuader.”  The secret to his stealth is simple: In a city where everybody wants to be in the news, Coe isn’t seeking publicity. Way back in 1966, when he first began assuming leadership of the organization he’d come to re-brand as the Family, he sent out a memo declaring that the time had come…

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Israel Claims Holy Sites, Reignites Religious Flashpoint

…s would be renovated, but that they were included on a “national” heritage list, suggesting that they will become a part of Israel. “Listen, no one can argue that Cave of Patriarchs is not a central heritage site to the Jewish people,” said Rabbi Arik Ascherman, executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights. “Now it is up to the government to prove that this is not a statement of intent that this will be held forever by Israel.” But the rabbi of t…

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AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: A Graphic Retrospective

…el’s Defense Line: Her Friends and Foes in Washington. Panel 7: For a full list of its offices, go here. Panel 8.1 For more information on the differences, go here. Panel 8.2 3 page comic below, “Lunch on K Street,” depicts the lobbying process in DC. Panel 9: Paraphrased from an actual lobbying firm’s Web site. Panel 10: For more info, visit Open Secrets here and here. Page 2 Panel 2: (top, horizontal): More info here. Panel 3: More background on…

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Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?

…t levels.” This does not answer the question why they are both in the same list. — ed.    While Protestant churches like the Presbyterian Church USA have their annual gatherings in the summer, the institutional Roman Catholic Church, with no such meetings to worry about, uses the season to issue documents from on high. According to published reports, the Vatican is soon to release new norms that govern matters of sexual abuse by clergy. (Ho hum—bu…

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Bringing the Senate Back to Decency: An Election Day Morning After

…Byrd’s Senate seat. And he is a Democrat. Regrettably we have a very long list of names from which to trade out for Adams’ list of victims of overheated rhetoric and political assassination: John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy… As I look out over the wasteland of current political speech, and the difficult terrain lying before this Republic in the next two years, it is Adams’ final line to which I keep returning. It offers a conc…

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