Religion Dispatches
…ica * Foundation for American Veterans * Gateway to a Cure * Noah’s Wish * Ohio Troopers Coalition * Road to Responsibility Inc. * United States Public Policy Council Another option would be for the duo to to team up with fellow performance artists Joel and Victoria Osteen and support Feed the Children, Osteen’s Charity of choice that received a grade of F from the American Institute of Philanthropy. While Beck & Palin will rake in the cash promot…
Read More…x of them — Jason Altmire and Tim Holden of Pennsylvania, John Boccieri of Ohio, Jim Marshall of Georgia, Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, and Gene Taylor of Mississippi, all Catholics, voted for the Stupak-Pitts amendment and then against the bill. Is there going to be a lot of hand-wringing about how these good Catholics voted against Catholic teaching? Or did they sufficiently fulfill their duty by helping to ensure that Stupak-Pitts was in the b…
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…earth that had contained them and, from Ariel Ticona (miner #32), the telephone receiver that allowed him to talk with his wife Elizabeth after she gave birth to their daughter, Esperanza (Hope)—an event he was able to watch by live video feed in the mine. As we all watched the event unfold, Guardian UK writer Sam Wollaston compared it to an episode of the reality show Big Brother, which features a group of people under continuous video surveilla…
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…r includes the battles brought on by the birth of the Mormon religion, the Ohio Bible wars, the Pledge of Allegiance cases, all the way up to the court’s last term. Rakove isn’t one to waste words, so Beyond Belief is neither exhaustive nor exhausting. Rather, its 187 pages are packed with fascinating history told with Rakove’s familiar verve. For instance, when learning about the evangelical reform agenda of the nineteenth-century, which include…
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…ce curricula and lesson plans in various states—most notably in Kansas and Ohio. Each time they were defeated after scientists and educators exposed what they were trying to do. Sometime in the mid ’90s, the Discovery Institute refocused its efforts. Instead of pretending to put forth any positive scientific arguments for anything like intelligent design, it switched tactics (again based on Johnson’s wedge strategy) and merely tried to present neg…
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…thodoxy. While the Neo-Nazis and Neo-Confederates may be relatively few in number, there is increasing evidence that Orthodoxy has become an integral part of the ideological and recruitment apparatus within some segments of the white supremacist movement. Importantly, these ideas and the converts to them are being tolerated, and frequently exploited, by much more powerful voices. This growing attachment to Eastern Orthodox Christianity among a seg…
Read More…ntucky, the state’s second-largest city. –Nickie Antonio’s election to the Ohio House. Antonio will be the first openly LGBT person to serve in the state legislature. –Marcus Brandon’s election to the North Carolina House. Brandon will be the state’s only openly gay state legislator and one of just five out African Americans to serve as state lawmakers. Brandon even won the endorsement of Rev. Cardes Brown, pastor of New Light Missionary Baptist C…
Read More…opulation, but they are mostly concentrated in the states with the highest number of delegate and electoral votes (New York, California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois), they contribute financially to politicians disproportionately to their percentage, and they are often in key roles as opinion shapers in the communities where they work or live. Democratic Party appeals to the Jewish vote are not much different than appeals to other con…
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…is now well-known: not only did Clinton lose swing states like Florida and Ohio, but three dependably blue states in the Midwest flipped unexpectedly red to hand Trump victory. Voter turnout, key to both of Obama’s victories, fell to its lowest level in two decades, with Black voter turnout dropping sharply after twenty years of steady rises. As one African-American non-voter told the New York Times: “Both of them were terrible. They never do anyt…
Read More…re were other notable theologians who held the same view and allowed for a number of other exceptions. Nor did the hierarchy object. Rather, the humble and very gifted Antoninus was appointed Archbishop of Florence in 1446 before being canonized a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in 1523. There are Catholic parishes named for this pro-choice saint in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Newark, New Jersey. St. Antoninus was not a pro-choice loner in the Roman…
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