Religion Dispatches
…never consider inserting anti-evolution language into a textbook to make a sale to creationists. “We simply wouldn’t do it and our authors wouldn’t tolerate it,” he said. However, he said that the smaller college textbook market isn’t subject to the same kinds of pressures as the high school publishing houses for which state and regional standards have long required specific editions. So, a company might customize 8,000 copies for Texas, but still…
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…lthy profit for Planned Parenthood. They cashed in over $50 million on the sale of abortion and birth control to teenagers just last year.” MTV’s inclusion in the Pledge is a direct reference not only to popular culture’s role in the creation and support of a culture of death, but recognizes MTV’s position as an influential youth media outlet. Rock for Life cites MTV’s College Invasion Tour, which included safe sex information, as “another example…
Read More…Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was in the line of the dreaded Judge Hathorne of Salem witch trial fame (and whose notoriety was the reason for the author’s addition of a “w” to his own name), said that he was proud that the Puritans once existed, and relieved that they no longer did. And yet during the horrors of the Civil War, the pilgrims took on a new symbolic role, as Yankee historians conceptualized the origins of America not in Jamestown, Virgini…
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…Palin threw in a good line here and there, as when she addressed her poor numbers: “Polls? They’re for strippers and cross-country skiers!” While the media continues to focus on whether or not she’s going to run, Palin is pulling a classic populist move, solidifying her base of Teavangelicals making sure that they’re 100% on board with her program to oust President Obama and wreck shop with the Republican Primaries. The question isn’t is she or i…
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…ions that resulted in the three bombs. Hofmann’s inability to finalize the sale of the Oath of the Freeman document, which would have solved all his financial woes, and his struggles to produce the complete “McLellin Papers,” which he had promised a number of Mormon collectors, left him scrambling. News clips from those long October days captured the heightened animosity after a first death, and then a second, launched Salt Lake City into a panic….
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…embrace again: their church. And then Moore moves to close the apologetics sale: To one I said, ‘If you look at Jesus and the Gospels and you decide you cannot follow him, that’s one thing. But it would be a shame to avoid even looking at the claims of the gospel because you want to avoid at all costs what a church that hurt you said they believed. That’s even more the case when your problem is that they didn’t seem to believe what they said they…
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…atholics may well decide the election. But I daresay it won’t be because they line up behind the bishops. Religious liberty is simply not for sale even if the currency is threats to eternal salvation….
Read More…rld: Turkey (87%), Egypt (71%), and Pakistan (50%), and of course rates of sale. How does an Islamist pamphlet compare to fiction or poetry in the same region? Finding the man on the street who screams “the West” is the great Satan is great for proving what one person thinks. How about what a billion Muslims might actually think? This smear is predicated on guilt by association and on the assumption that an “Other” is by definition different. The…
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…ions of religion with commerce and race in a fascinating discussion of the sale of “authentic” Native American artifacts at Pathways New Age Books and Music. Like the American Religious Sounds Project, (discussed in a previous column on the possibilities represented by digital mapping and remapping of American religion), the Arch City Religion Project allows a visitor to follow chance connections, visit virtual places never heard of before, and ex…
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…life. US public opinion hasn’t changed since the fall of Roe; if anything, numbers in support of reproductive rights have risen. Indeed, the issue of abortion rights has remained a losing strategy for the Republican Party since the end of Roe, even in deep-red states. In every major election since, where abortion has been an issue, Republicans have lost. In ballot initiatives and local elections up and down the country—Kansas, Kentucky and Virgini…
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