Religion Dispatches
…it “a much needed look at the ideas that made America great.” According to website archive, the Minnesota Summit Project was formed in 1994. Its 2001 mission statement declares it was intended “to follow God’s command to teach our youth a Christian worldview; to teach them how to love the Lord with all their heart and soul; to show them how their faith is validated by the world around them; and equip them with the reasoning tools required to survi…
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…humanity itself”. And here’s what the Pope said, straight from the Vatican website (emphasis mine): In addition to a clear goal, that of leading young people to a full knowledge of reality and thus of truth, education needs settings. Among these, pride of place goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman. This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society. Consequently, policies which underm…
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…des list other religions that are either polytheistic or non-theistic. The website Task & Purpose aptly summarized the issue: “The [USNA] has a message for the burgeoning satanists in its ranks: you can study Satan as a midshipman, but you sure as hell can’t hail him.” The reasoning behind denying TST their rites appears to be political. According to the USNA, TST cannot hold services because they are “a non-theistic religious and politically acti…
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…s the oldest American monastery still in use. Both represent the dwindling number of Catholic monastics in the US. But while Lorettans have been leading organizing efforts, Gethsemani is the more historically noteworthy order. From 1941 until 1968, the monastery housed contemplative monk Thomas Merton. Merton is remembered for his urgent activism against another potentially catastrophic force: nuclear war. In the early 1960s a time of Khrushchev…
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…he nightmare over.” Piderit’s biography at the San Francisco archdiocese’s website, however, mentions only that he “induced significant cost-cutting at Loyola.” Cordileone also announced in 2014 that the seminary would be the home to the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music, where lay people could be formed for ministering in the church, with a special emphasis on the Extraordinary Rite and Gregorian chant. However, the institute’s website two…
Read More…san legal advice to a full spectrum of the state’s religious groups. VCA’s website reported on the event, warning that “Virginia Pastors are Losing the Culture Wars.” VCA’s website lists its heroes, several of whom have Christian Reconstructionist ties, including David Barton, the late D. James Kennedy, Ken Ham, Roy Moore, and Pat Robertson. The other event sponsor, Fredericksburg Christian Schools, (FCS) claims that parents bear the God-ordained…
Read More…s as a fake news article, or “advertorial,” on Newsmax, the semi-fake news website. Hyman in fact seems to work for the website, although his actual role is unclear—a recent bio says that he is part of its “Financial Brain Trust.” “A wise man looks well into a matter,” Proverbs, and Hyman, reminds us. While I wouldn’t make any claims to wisdom, I will say that I have looked into it and conclude that it would be foolish to give Hyman any of your mo…
Read MoreA new website, and a new robocall in Ohio, is claiming that Christians and Jews are against Mitt Romney and for Rick Santorum, mostly because Romney is for your kid’s male teacher wearing a dress and heels to school, and Santorum is for “social sanity.” Here’s the text of the robocall, via the website JewsandChristianstogether.org: Hi, my name is Brian Camenker; I’m a Jew from Massachusetts. And, this is Darcy Brandon; I’m a Christian from Califo…
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…on. And, much like its UK cousin, TP Australia has a resource problem. Its website is all of two pages—a contact information page and a homepage that makes claims about its 2022 election efforts in Victoria, which is home to Melbourne, the country’s most populous city. Despite a lack of chapters, Turning Point Australia has become an “increasingly common” fixture on “the fringes of Australia’s conservative movement,” according to Crikey, an indepe…
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…peaking to strangers is not only permitted, but expected. According to the website: “There is no better day to choose. October 31st presents us with a unique opportunity to spread the gospel….You don’t even have to go out of your way; people will come to your doorstep, anyway.” The whole thing has “Ned Flanders” written all over it. Maybe that’s why it seems to be having trouble catching on, even among Christians with a hexed—I mean, vexed—relatio…
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