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

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…th local churches. In addition to Graham, the Association also sponsored a number of “associate evangelists,” including Howard Jones, Ralph Bell and Leighton Ford. The Association published Decision magazine, and Graham’s syndicated column, “My Answer,” appeared in newspapers across the nation. Politics By his own account, Graham enjoyed close relationships with American presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama (even though Graham met wi…

Clarion Fund Claims Times Square Bombing Attempt Proof of “Coordinated Jihad Against Western Values”

By Sarah Posner

…toon.” At the web site Jews On First, which follows the religious right, a number of analysts contributed to Rebutting Obsession, which as the name suggests, cuts through the film’s ahistorical, conspiratorial, and propagandistic claims. Writing around the same time in the London Review of Books, Adam Shatz described the Clarion Fund as: a front for neoconservative and Israeli pressure groups. It has an office, or at least an address, in Manhattan…

Repentance on Wall Street?

By Nathan Schneider

…f the day, all at once, a sea of suits pours out onto the streets of Lower Manhattan. With them come as many somber faces, cast down, but bearing a glint of tranquility not often seen in that neighborhood. No press conference was scheduled, but reporters descend, and something like one materializes out of the crowd, centered around the chief executives of the top investment banks. They, we learn, arranged this together the night before in lieu of…

$upport Our $ister$

By Marian Ronan

Last night I attended an event at a Catholic parish in Manhattan to support US Catholic sisters in response to the Vatican’s recent statement about them. First we viewed a new documentary about the sisters, Women and Spirit which tells the amazing story of Catholic sisters’ work in the U.S. since the first of them arrived here in 1727. It’s produced and marketed by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the primary target of Vatican…

Christ is Pissed, Again

By Hollis Phelps

…ed. Beginning on the 27th of this month, the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery in Manhattan will open an exhibit titled Body and Spirit: Andres Serrano 1987–2012. The exhibit, which runs for a month, features a range of works from the controversial artist, including the infamous Piss Christ (1987), a work that consists of a photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in what is supposedly a jar of the artist’s own urine. The gallery’s press release descri…

Religious Belief = Mental Illness: A More Venomous Response

By Alana Massey

…number of mental health professionals in the world. I don’t know the exact numbers but the people are legion, even if you only count Manhattan. If a case can be made for the religious as mentally ill, don’t you think that community would have made it? Like, even a fringy one? Or are the angry Internet commentariat and atheist comedians just better informed on what constitutes psychosis? With the exception of Sam Harris—who is a neuroscientist and…

Clinton on “A Syndicate of Terror”

By Peter Laarman

…en tribal leader, say, needs to be totally for us or else we will treat him as totally against us. And note that it is always about “us.” That is the other thing that rightly inflames the locals. We are still seeking to avenge a trauma that took place eight years ago in Lower Manhattan, and we appear willing to inflict any amount of trauma on any number of others in order to work out our own issues. Yes, Af-Pak continues to be a stew of strategic…

The “Good Guy With a Gun” Myth

By Carlos Wilton

…the consciousness of millions. In quick succession, the raw, unedited smartphone videos gave America something Hollywood has never shown us: a man’s actual death by gunshot. It wasn’t epic. It wasn’t honorable. It was simply horrifying. Far more shocking than even the exploding fake-blood packets of a Quentin Tarantino film. Hollywood’s cinematic carnage is carefully scripted. The peculiar horror of Diamond Reynolds’ smartphone video, capturing th…

A Link to Jewish History, RBG’s Iconic Collars Were a Beacon for the Marginalized

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…kly in photographs. A collar graced the neck of the Fearless Girl in Lower Manhattan. Other young girls, made of flesh, not bronze, wore collars as they paid tribute to her on the steps of the Supreme Court. If you want to get in on the crafting, then you too can download and cut out a paper dissent collar to wear, or knit up this Dissent sweater pattern on Ravelry. Lace and yarn and fabric are also a link to Jewish history. In Europe, the Middle…

Alarming New Report Shows Attacks on Public Education Are Coordinated by Right-Wing Think Tanks

By Hialy Gutierrez

…ring over and over again. Think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute are two really big and prominent think tanks on this particular issue. They have tens of millions of dollars (and, in the case of Heritage, more than $100 million) and are very, very influential in right-wing libertarian policy circles. They’re heavily influential in some of the worst legislation of the last few decades. Then the final group that we look…