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Will a Video Game Make Sense of Qaddafi’s Death?

By Rachel Wagner

…nd make sense of. Typically, this is accomplished by vastly reducing the variables and historical contexts involved and effectively transforming lived events into games with predictable rules, defeatable “bad guys,” and the hopeful celebration of an “epic win.” Part of the problem with representing an event like Qaddafi’s capture in a game is the widespread degree of ignorance that contemporary media allows, especially in hyper-wired places like t…

White House Position
on Exemption from Contraception Coverage
“Not a Done Deal”?

By Sarah Posner

…ation, which had representatives at White House meetings on the topic, described the tenor of such meetings as “listening and not giving a sense of where the administration was leaning.” The Washington Post reports this morning that Democratic Senators, on a phone call yesterday with White House senior advisor David Plouffe, argued against adopting the Bishops’ position. My source says it’s “not a done deal” yet, but expected action from the Whi…

Is Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?

By Anthea Butler

…an lie his way through this, sacrificing his family on the altar of his hubris. Even Gingrich knows how to pull a repentant face when questioned about his past affairs. But Cain’s arrogance won’t wash with the many white voters who he believes “can’t pretend” to like him. Cain’s inability to acknowledge his foibles speaks to very deep pathology on his part. His love of the media spotlight may cost him his wife and children, yet he continues to use…

“Guerilla Warrior of Judeo-Christian Political Commentary” Stars in Anti-Newt Video in Iowa

By Sarah Posner

…ers Institute and pastor of Sioux City’s Cornerstone Church, calls “the guerilla warrior of Judeo-Christian political commentary.” Mitchell is an edgy independent filmmaker whose Illuminati Pictures delivers something akin to an animated political cartoon weekly at WorldNetDaily. Gordon also announced today that 832,897 text messages went out to Iowans last week bearing a link to his own video endorsement of a proposed GOP ticket, less than a mont…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…urches. In 1986, the Rev. Carcaño was the first Hispanic woman named a District Superintendent in the Methodist Church. She served in West Texas, New Mexico, and Portland, Oregon, where her ministry always focused on the marginalized. In 1992, she organized the Southern Albuquerque Cooperative Ministry, an ecumenical venture with emphasis on services for immigrant families. Such efforts were rare at that time, but the success of her leadersh…

A Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…all of our hearts. I get that. I know you must shake your head if someone brings my name up or grimace at an old photograph you run across and say something like, “Oh, it’s Carolyn. She was such a believer, so strong. She was sold out to Christ, a handmaiden of the Lord. Remember the way she’d study scripture, her zeal?” Yes, you nod. Yes. But she has returned to her vomit like dogs do. Her filth—does someone say that? That I’m a pig wallowing in…

“Symbolic” Personhood Bill Could Kill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…thored by Republican Brian Crain of Tulsa. This law would grant all legal “rights, privileges and immunities” to fetuses at “every stage of development.” The bill contains no provision for rape or incest. The Oklahoma State Medical Association opposes it. And according to Senator Jim Wilson, a Democrat from Tahlequah, the bill could criminalize in vitro fertilization and potentially make doctors liable for treating a woman who faces a life-threate…

To: Discovery Institute;
Re: Creationist Tactics Pre-Dating the Exposure of ID as a Fraud

By Lauri Lebo

…on any side of a controversy when there really is no controversy to begin with—not for the roughly 99.95% of scientists with relevant expertise, anyway. That’s in fact the whole point. In any case, he then recounts a rather nasty disagreement that we had on the phone during the Dover trial back in 2005. I have to admit his recollection is pretty accurate. At one point he said, “How dare you say that we’re stupid.” I told him that I wasn’t calling…

“God Created You”: Bishop Supports Gay Ugandans, Defies Death Threats

By Jocelyn Edwards

…ghtened Senyonjo to the extent that he almost didn’t want to go to the memorial for his friend and former colleague. “At first, I thought I did not want to go out of doors today but then I thought I wanted to get to the funeral,” he said. Senyonjo received a call informing him of the murder at around midnight the day the activist died; the news kept him awake almost all night. “I hardly had slept, but I was determined to be at the funeral of David…

It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…/socialist/radical agenda. The “deep history” behind the latest round of Christian right polemics can be followed back through a long tradition of worries about the decline of a Christian America. Ultimately, these can be traced back to the founding of the Republic. More directly, they emerge from the rise of Christian apocalyptic conservatism from the early twentieth century forward. Matthew Sutton details a similar assault on the FDR administrat…