Religion Dispatches
…everywhere: Night 2- The story of the Maccabees as told by the Rugrats, complete with pop-up scrolls… Night 3- Elmo learns all about Hanukkah Night 4- The Nanny tries to keep her family together for the first night of Hanukkah: Night 5- Southpark’s Mr. Hankey sings a Hanukkah song: Night 6- The Holiday Armadillo brings Hanukkah to Friends: Night 7- Hanukkah Harry saves Easter on Saturday Night Live: Night 8- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart offe…
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…Rowling succeeded in creating an alternative world that is so real, and so compelling, that it makes you want to become a part of it. J.K. Rowling’s creations have taken on new life as they are embraced by fans that make them their own. Fans joined together to create Harry Potter social network sites such as The Leaky Cauldron, and Mugglenet, which also features extensive archives of fan fiction and fan art. In addition, Harry Potter has also insp…
Read More…d, “I know the cast of characters and their highly dubious reputations and complete lack of expertise when it comes to Islam, Muslims, and national security.” “What I would assert is really at play here is good old fashioned bigotry,” he continued, and “some are making a decent living on this,” referring to the Tennessean’s revelations about Emerson. As to the particular assertions in the Fox piece, Khan noted that the CMSA didn’t exist when peopl…
Read More…untry’s economic future is dependent upon the United States’ retaining its competitiveness in science, it is vital that students have a sound education about major scientific concepts and their applications. We strongly urge that the Louisiana Legislature repeal this misguided law. Louisiana students deserve an education that will allow them to compete with their peers across the country and the globe. The law is based on intelligent design-promot…
Read More…torm as hip-hop music. Later, during an era of music videos and mainstream commercial rap, less and less that Scott-Heron produced made the transition to a mainstream lingua franca or commercial success. For a long stretch between the mid 1980s and 2010 he released only one record, and he battled drug problems. In 2005, on the record Beautiful Struggle, Talib Kweli commented on “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” in this way: I’ve heard it said…
Read More…Aqua-Buddha college pranks notwithstanding, Rand Paul embraces Buddhist notions of the interconnectedness of everything and the illusion of difference; “nothingness” is The Word. Thanks to my colleague Jon for sharing. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Nothingness www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive…
Read More…efeat of the Equal Rights Amendment and threatened Mormon feminists with excommunication. It was the Salt Lake Tribune’s award-winning religion reporter Peggy Stack who first told the story in 2008 of Bishop Romney and his interactions with Boston-area Mormon feminists. (The New York Times’s Sheryl Stolberg followed Stack’s trail of sources for her solid piece on Romney as bishop last month.) The Post’s story adds nuance through in-depth interview…
Read More…eek” Easter Sunday in 2011, when host Christiane Amanpour interviewed him, complaining that he couldn’t understand why President Obama had not produced his birth certificate. He also took the opportunity to brag about his own Christianity and to question Obama’s definition of what a Christian is against his own. Moreover, he continued to repeat, and he did on Morning Joe, that Obama’s Muslim heritage was conferred because his father was a muslim….
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…a nationwide billboard campaign dubbed “TooManyAborted.com” that targeted communities of color with billboards characterizing abortion as “black genocide.” Mother Jones recently reported that a House Bill advocating the prohibition of “race-selection abortions” has been proposed to Republican lawmakers. The Bill argues that “abortion is the leading cause of death in the black community.” Protecting Minority Life Along those lines, the current fur…
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…te (38%) in Florida is virtually the reverse of South Carolina, where they comprised 65% of voters, and which is why, in part, Romney is headed toward victory here tomorrow. At the Romney rally, the verdict on Gingrich was mixed. Liz Reiman, a Romney voter from Jacksonville, said she had been “intrigued” with Gingrich, whom she called “stunning and sometimes disturbing.” But, she concluded, he was “too volatile.” Catherine Baum, who said she was n…
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