Religion Dispatches
…st discriminated against group in the contemporary United States. A recent CNN poll confirms Pew’s findings, yet unsurprisingly 71% of Hispanics oppose Arizona’s law. You don’t need a Ph.D. to realize that those individuals who will not be terrorized by this law seem to have no problem with it. Faith-based groups were active last week in publicly protesting Arizona’s law. Religious leaders evoke compassion, the dignity of the human, the imago Dei…
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…I know the the popularity of punk, amongst other genres, outside the Anglophone world. I think Mike’s book clearly speaks to a lot of people, but as fiction there is a comfortable level of distance. You are actually making the music, and that’s really the tension I want to explore. It’s one thing to utilize the genre, it’s another to inject it with themes related to Islam. I will be honest and say that I am surprised at how well your lyrical cont…
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…e split on this issue,” they tell RD, “almost down the middle.” Indeed, as CNN recently reported, many fear the UMC will schism into two separate Methodist denominations: one conservative and one liberal. What will that mean for the future of the Methodist tradition? “It’s too soon to say,” Rebecca says. “But I have doubts that the UMC, as is, will ever become fully affirming. The path to full affirmation will likely involve a schism of some sort….
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…for actual stunt raids. A celebrity self-promoter, obsessed with his poll numbers, his brand (all that was iconic at his “in-tents” jail—exposure to the elements, pink underwear, garbage food paired with televisions locked to the Food Network—was iconic of him), his solipsism was on display in a pre-interview clip from CNN where he fusses about his makeup and complains that he can’t even go out for pizza in New York without protestors complicatin…
Read More…NC convenes for its winter meeting, it will take up a proposed resolution, CNN reports, “urging GOP candidates to speak up about abortion and respond forcefully against Democratic efforts to paint them as anti-woman extremists.” The “Resolution on Republican Pro-Life Strategy” calls on the party to only support candidates “who fight back against Democratic deceptive ‘war on women’ rhetoric by pointing out the extreme positions on abortion held by…
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…tasy rhetoric that fills what follows. The Washington Post quotes nothing. CNN wonders whether he has sufficient administrative experience. (Is “none” sufficient?) Politico worries what the lobbyists will think. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War Jeff Sharlet W. W. Norton & Company March, 2023 I want to be careful here—I don’t think any of these journalists, some of whom, at least, are otherwise strong reporters, is secretly rooting for fa…
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…epared to be a shelter once other city and county shelters have filled up. CNN reported on Tuesday morning that at least three people arrived at the church seeking shelter, and were subsequently sent to a convention center downtown. However, by Tuesday afternoon, multiple network and cable news reports were showing evacuees arriving, as the downtown George R. Brown Convention Center was at capacity. In a city with dozens and dozens of churches, so…
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…t with God anything is possible. At 11 p.m. Eastern time, 4 November 2008, CNN and other networks called the election in Obama’s favor. What had seemed so unlikely just a few months before had come to pass. I paused then to consider my colleague’s question, and was momentarily convinced that nothing fundamental was different. But I had to reconsider my position the next morning as I drove to work listening to the public radio station for New York…
Read MoreIn the CNN presidential debate last night, moderator Anderson Cooper asked the candidates about Pastor Robert Jeffress’ diatribe against Mormonism. “Should voters pay attention to a candidate’s religion?” Cooper asked. That question should be easy for Republicans, right? Here’s a summary (full quotes below the fold): Santorum (Catholic): Examining the tenets of someone’s religion tells you how they will govern. But don’t judge their road to salva…
Read More…notes: There’s little data on the disparate tea party movement. One small CNN survey of self-identified tea party activists found that 68 percent identify themselves as Protestants or other non-Catholic Christians, as opposed to just 50 percent in the general population. Only 9 percent of the activists say they’re irreligious, as opposed to 14 percent in the broader sample. But an in-depth study of 49 tea party leaders by the free-market oriented…
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