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Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

…ou do not know Christ as your Savior, I urge you to visit our church’s Web site (www.trbc.org) and click on “Who is Christ?” to learn how you can know Jesus Christ as your Savior. NOTE: Christians wishing to investigate these last days are encouraged to pick up a copy of Drs. Hindson and LaHaye’s Global Warning: Are We on the Verge of World War III? This book is an excellent survey of the final signs that will serve as God’s global warning to the…

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Searching for Sex, Life and Abortion on Catholic Google

…Catholic Church stance on the subjects. Surprisingly, the editors of this site must have forgotten to block out those renegade progressive Catholics (note the sarcasm). When I searched for “women’s ordination” two pro-women’s ordination groups, Roman Catholic Women Priests and Women’s Ordination Conference, were the first sites that came up The same happened with when I searched “LGBT” and DignityUSA, a group working for LGBT rights in the Church…

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Gimme That Old Spice Religion

…oosting her husband’s Art of Manliness-Man of the Year campaign on her Web site Ladies against Feminism and on various homeschooling blogs. Doing Demographic Battle with Nonbelievers When Doug Phillips blogged Chancey’s award campaign in the final 48 hours—he noted the large families of various other campaigners. Matt and Jennifer Chancey themselves have eight children. So far. According to Joyce, this fact is at the heart of the story: [The] Phil…

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Santa Claus Will Take You To Hell

…. Even their Web site at godhatesfags.com looks like a deft parody of hate sites. In fact, compare WBC’s Santa attack to a similar piece over at Landover Baptist, an openly stated religious parody site. If WBC’s goal is to turn America against gays and lesbians, Iraq veterans and now Santa, they have been woefully incompetent. However, they do tend to foster more tolerance, and even some acceptance. Ask even the most virulently anti-gay Christian…

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Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

…password, my student Jonathan offered to log in and allow us to visit the site with his avatar. Unfortunately, his avatar was already wearing a Batman costume. So would wearing the costume on the virtual hajj be disrespectful? And if Jonathan were to guide his black-caped avatar through the online sacred space, who—him or his avatar—was actually “going” on the hajj? And what was actually going on when I programmed my own avatar to wear digital hi…

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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

…he then dwindling, but still active, Israeli peace movement. Arun Gandhi visited the Palestinian Territories and Israel in August of 2004. His sympathies were clearly with the Palestinians, though he also visited Israel. This is consistent with the political position of the Indian Left. In his visit to Israel Gandhi met with peace activists and Knesset members on the Israeli Left and he recalled that visit in his Washington Post/Newsweek blog. Gan…

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‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

…dians were not permitted outside contact after the FBI took control of the site, and were unable to convey their side of the story to the public. During the siege, the FBI did not release a videotape of the wounded David Koresh introducing the children, so the children were largely invisible to the general public, as were the Branch Davidian adults, who were also videotaped. According to the Justice Department report: “The [FBI] negotiator’s log s…

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Religious Freedom Victory in Tennessee

…at Rutherford County violated open meetings laws or illegally approved the site plan. In spite of the plaintiffs’ fiery accusations that Islam is not a religion but a violent political movement looking to supplant U.S.laws, Corlew barely mentioned terrorism or public safety concerns, saying that the county’s planning commission isn’t the proper venue to vet such claims when approving a site plan. “We cannot find that the county erred, acted capric…

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Herman Cain: The Tea Party-Religious Right Candidate?

…our rights and ability to grow as a nation from our reverence to God.” At the tvTownhall website, the “about” link brings you to an extended biography (and beaming photograph) of Cain. There’s not a whole lot of action at the site apart from posting videos (but that hasn’t been updated since before the election). The site does show Tea Party and religious right comraderie: both the Family Research Council and Americans for Prosperity are sponsors….

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Blood and Hammers: Elderly Anti-Nuclear Activists Sentenced to Jail

…nner reading “Trident: Illegal + Immoral,” poured their own blood over the site, and beat on the ground and the fences with household hammers before being apprehended and arrested. “We walk into the heart of darkness,” they wrote in a statement distributed to supporters and media, “as one step up the holy mountain where all nations can unite in peace” (read the group’s full statement here). The five, who call themselves the Disarm Now Plowshares,…

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