Search for "cheap airline tickets to houston tx phone number 1-800-299-7264"

In Convention Event Democrats Embrace the ‘Nones’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ds, Chair of the Black Humanist Alliance and founder of Black Lives Matter Houston; Dr. Monica Miller, Associate Professor of Religion and Africana Studies at Lehigh University; and Robert P. Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute and author of the newly released White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Miller noted that “we tend to separate out whiteness from its religion of Christianity, and the o…

If By “American” and “Religious” You Mean “Republican” and “Conservative Christian,” Then Yes…

By Eric C. Miller

…look no further than this to see how “overhyping” works in practice. These numbers sound impressive until you recall that only about a quarter of the U.S. population is registered with the Republican Party. With that context, the “dramatic” numbers should read like this: 59 percent of 25 percent of Americans said… 53 percent of 25 percent… and 72 percent of 25 percent… etc. By my calculation, these figures equate to 14.75%, 13.25%, and 18% of the…

McCullen v. Coakley and the Meaning of Protests

By Sarah Posner

…ofessionalization of the anti-abortion strategy, which has led to a record number of legislative abortion restrictions at the state level. But these changes have not made violence and intimidation disappear. During the so-called Summer of Mercy in Witchita, Kansas, in 1991, news coverage described Operation Rescue protesters “flinging themselves under cars, sitting by the hundreds at clinic doorways and blocking women from entering as they read th…

Will Declining Numbers of White Evangelicals Change the Senate?

By Sarah Posner

…d look no further than Congress to recognize that there may be strength in numbers, but numbers alone do not automatically translate into strength.” And numbers alone do not automatically translate into weakness. The religious right spent decades building get-out-the-vote operations and candidate recruitment and training grounds. Those efforts do not vanish with demographic changes, particularly if evangelical turnout is outsized compared to other…

QAnon isn’t a Cult — a Problematic Term — But Michael Protzman’s Q-Adjacent ‘Negative48’ Certainly Is

By Thomas Lecaque

…he Trump rally in Arizona, and ramping up as they head to Trump’s rally in Houston, that feels very Second Coming-esque, between Tenner’s “Jesus is coming” and his new video that “There will be a king in attendance.” Protzman’s group heading to these rallies has revitalized his clique, bringing people back to Texas from out of state to join him. And all the while, the rhetoric is maintained—secret codes in the numbers, the dead are really alive, a…

Marianne Williamson and Me

By Diane Winston

…gie, divorcée, single mother, cabaret singer), the little Jewish girl from Houston, Texas was profiled by everyone from Psychology Today to the New York Times. Some stories zeroed in on Williamson’s celebrity connections (BFFs with Oprah Winfrey and David Geffen, officiating at one of Liz Taylor’s weddings) while others sniggered at her “New Age teachings.” But few mentioned the social activism that had been a continuous thread through her career….

Sotomayor, Evangelicals, and Racism

By Michael J. Altman

…egular basis. The “there’s no racism just racists” argument doesn’t fly in Houston, TX like it does on Capitol Hill. The Evangelical understanding of racism as has its own internal logic. If evil is an individual problem and a personal relationship with Jesus can change a person and make them holier than clearly we don’t need government programs for minorities, we need people to accept Jesus. But Evangelicals have over-emphasized the individual to…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…or having a child out of wedlock in a speech to the Commonwealth Club). In Houston, Pat Buchanan gave a primetime speech in which he declared a “cultural war” for the “soul of America.” I was appalled by the speech, but I had siblings who thought it was great. So my initial interest in the topic was that “family values” could provoke vastly different reactions—I found it exclusive, but others found it inclusive. A few years later, I went to gradua…

A Libertarian Split Over the Hitching Post Case

By Sarah Posner

…able panic about dangers to religious liberty (see also, last week, on the Houston pastors subpoena). In this instance, those efforts amount to something very akin to hiding the ball, including (as cited by Sullivan) the quiet legal revamping of the business onto a religious basis in recent weeks and the silent removal of extensive language on its website that until earlier this month had promoted the chapel as a venue for civil, non-religious wed…

Bobby Jindal Hypes His Christian Cred at Liberty U.

By Murali Balaji

…established itself in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago, the reality for many Hindu immigrants—and their children—was that they were alone in a new country without much of a support network. My story is somewhat similar to Jindal’s. I grew up in small towns in New Jersey, New York, and Ohio before my family settled in the Philadelphia suburbs in the 1980s, and I was subjected to the worst types of bullying an…