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Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…o the life of the community—has been displaced by the public school as the center for activity, the center for what goes on in the community. It is certainly our hope that churches would continue, no matter what the environment—whether there’s government funding through tax credits or vouches or some other mechanism, or whatever it may be—that more and more churches will get more and more active and engaged through education. We just can think of…

Battlestar Galactica and the Future of American Religion

By Nick Street

…has struck off on her own with a restive crew in search of Earth. Will the center hold? When the time is right for initiation and rebirth, it must not. [For a pithy and witty 8-minute video primer on the Battlestar story arc through the beginning of the current season, click here.] [For more data from recent religious identification surveys, check out the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the American…

DeSantis is More Polished and Less Bombastic Than Trump — But is He Less of a Threat to Democracy?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…s but limited provocation, followed by a deft, just-in-time retreat to the center (…) the Florida governor has figured out that Republicans love a culture-war brawl, but that overdoing it can alienate a general-election electorate.” It’s unclear just what “center” DeSantis has ever returned to—he has a clear track record of implementing culture wars rhetoric into actual legislation that discriminates against LGBTQ people, he’s spread hate and lies…

A Palin Pastor Primer

By Esther Kaplan

…as elected governor, she affiliated with a third church, where she attends services while in the state capitol, the Juneau Christian Center, another Pentecostal church. In March 2009, Juneau Christian Center is scheduled to host a prayer evening organized by Christians United for Israel, headed up by Pastor John Hagee (yes, the one McCain had to distance himself from after a sermon surfaced in which Hagee said Hitler was a tool God used to force J…

Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots

By Max Zahn

…ither case, is proper citation. That’s what Ikeda, the East Bay Meditation Center teacher, wants, demanding of Western Buddhists “not only awareness” of source cultures “but attribution and acknowledgment.” Such attribution comes sparingly from teachers of corporate mindfulness, many of whom stress the secular nature of the practice. Kabat-Zinn, for instance, chooses not to identify as a Buddhist despite his decades of experience as a student of t…

What Liberals Want: A Response to Susan Thistlethwaite

By Frances Kissling

…ange. For liberals social transformation occurs at the margins, not in the center of power. The center has no stake in real change which challenges their privilege. That does not mean we hate the powerful; it just means we are more satisfied when we work with the powerless. It also does not mean that no one should work with the powerful but it is important to remember how seductive that place can be. This is not to say that there is not a place fo…

Polls Not Reflective of Readiness for Mormon President

By Joanna Brooks

…e same. And what do these groups have in common? One takeaway from the Pew Center survey is that if we’re interested in understanding public feelings about Mormonism, we need better data. The Pew Center survey did not ask “why” people hypothetically oppose a Mormon presidential candidate. If it did, I’m betting that liberals and conservatives would have very different reasons, and a good chunk of voters would have no reason at all. Detailed data i…

Muhammad and the Blind Man: A Lesson in Sensitivity

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…ium. It is all too easy for those entrenched in their views on the Park 51 center to ignore the telling examples of the founder of Islam himself, the Prophet Muhammad. Having now reached an age and level of maturity in my life to finally appreciate my father’s frequent musings about who Muhammad was, I am reminded of one particular example my father would often share with me — an example that the Qur’an itself makes reference to. Once during the e…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…han other medical providers,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The Center, a global legal advocacy organization dedicated to women’s reproductive health, is filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of two other Kansas abortion doctors affected by the new requirements. “The regulations in Kansas are extremely rigid and have nothing to do with medical safety. Neither hospitals nor ambulatory surgical centers are…

Swiftboating Obama’s Health Care Reform?

By Bill Berkowitz

…eralist Society, the Manhattan Institute, L. Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Bozell’s Parents Television Council, Regnery Publishing, and Phillip Anschutz’s Walden Media. As I reported late last year for MediaTransparency, SourceWatch , a project of the Center for Media and Democracy, pointed out that CRC was involved “in an attempt to hold [New Yo…