Religion Dispatches
…iew that he, “first saw Elvis live in ’54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and first thing, he came out and spit on the stage… I didn’t know what to make of it. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it.” In the immortal words of Butch Hancock, a singer and songwriter from Texas who commented on Elvis in the 1950s, and is quoted in Michael Ventura’s essay on the voodoo origins of rock and roll: “Yeah, that was the dance…
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…in England to a straight couple from the generally conservative diocese of Dallas. And unlike Gene Robinson and Carol Anderson, who both received death threats for their pioneering roles, Glasspool has not been so targeted—yet. When I asked her about any fears, she was hopeful but circumspect that since Gene Robinson was consecrated in 2003 “we have a healthier church and society” so that she “wouldn’t have to deal with wearing a bulletproof vest”…
Read More…irection of our country. Our trust must be in God and we need guidance from Divine Providence. For anyone who has watched the religious right since the 1970s, there’s a palpable sense of deja vu. Or, Robert Wilonsky put it at the Dallas Observer, “Party like it’s 1979.” Except now Robison no longer publicly calls LGBT people “perverts;” he and his cohorts have “disciples” like Marcus Bachmann to proverbially beat the gays with Bibles until they tu…
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…med the program directors of yoga teacher training programs in Houston and Dallas that they may be running career schools as defined by Chapter 132 of the Texas Education Code. They had already sent such letters to directors in Austin. Arguing that the regulation of career schools benefits consumers by monitoring programs, ensuring that they are legitimate businesses, and providing an avenue for student complaints, the TWC requested directors to c…
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…ndustry or Hollywood or Broadway or television—or Wall Street, Sacramento, Dallas, Atlanta, Albany or Washington—are controlled by Jews. I think they are controlled by Americans, and the American Negro situation is a direct result of this control. And anti-Semitism among Negroes, inevitable as it may be, and understandable, alas, as it is, does not operate to menace this control, but only to confirm it. It is not the Jew who controls the American…
Read More…Farrell, originally from Ireland, developed a pastoral reputation while in Dallas. He is now charged with merging and managing the many offices now formed into the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, a central focus of which will be the reception of Amoris Laetitia. He could greatly impact how the church responds to and pastorally cares for LGBT Catholics and their families in the many global contexts in which the church exists. Worth noting, t…
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…us tolerance. One could make a case that the Cairo speech could be made in Dallas, Texas; Louisville, Kentucky; or Liberty University with just a few modifications and replacing the Qur’anic verses for New Testament verses. We need a healthy discussion about religious freedom, extremism, and women’s rights in America. Too often Americans consider the radical and the fundamentalist to be overseas. We have had home-grown terrorists; remember, Timoth…
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…ntly displaying the smiling faces of the three stars of the series: former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current Fox NFL analyst Troy Aikman, and two current players at that position, the Cowboys’ Tony Romo and Ryan Tannehill of the Miami Dolphins. Pastor Ed Young had made a pragmatic move to absorb, rather than compete with, the rival religion: Football is essentially a religion in our country. And historically speaking, the new football season…
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…es” pertaining to sex-abuse in the Boy Scouts were archived at the group’s Dallas headquarters. But unlike the LDS documents, lawyers were successful in getting those files released last year. Clark said that was mainly due to judicial precedent in rulings against the Catholic Church. A database of the Boy Scout files can be found on Clark’s website. While he and Boucher have been involved in cases against a wide variety of religious and nonprofit…
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…ess, one of the president’s trusted spiritual advisors and the pastor of a Dallas megachurch said, there is no way his decision on Syria will lead evangelicals to support a Democratic candidate. “Some evangelicals may disagree with the president’s decision,” Mr. Jeffress said, “but I guarantee you there is not one evangelical supporter of the president who would switch their vote and support Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden over a Syria decision.” Tr…
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