Search for "= Copa Airlines Reservations 800-299-7264 Copa Airlines Official Site Copa Airlines Flights"

Romney Prepping for Evangelical Dance

By Sarah Posner

…other prominent evangelicals, has supported Romney since his 2008 run, is copacetic about the prospects of evangelical support for the first Mormon GOP nominee. “I’m optimistic that things are coming together nicely behind Mitt Romney and could do so fairly quickly,” he told Gibson. But DeMoss is a PR professional; it’s his job to put the happiest gloss on the situation. The pressure is on Romney to satisfy the base that he’s sufficiently anti-ab…

Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?

By Daniel Schultz

…ws. Others were even more over the top. The self-described “polemical news site” Protestia declared: “Tim Walz’s Lutheran Church is a Trainwreck of Heresy and Blasphemy.” In this case, the focus was on Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul—the congregation that Walz sometimes refers to as his “parish.” These attacks reflect a conservative pattern of delegitimizing opponents, both political and religious. Barack Obama famously faced intense scrutiny…

Evangelicals and Newt: Love Him or Hate Him?

By Sarah Posner

…The open letter, written on a blog that bears no names or footprints (the site registration is private), lambasts Vander Plaats not only for his association with Gingrich, but for accepting Gingrich’s help in securing $200,000 in “seed money” for his campaign to oust judges who had ruled in favor of gay marriage. There’s something odd, though, to my eyes, about the phrasing in the Iowans for Christian Leaders in Government materials. Like it wasn…

Akin and the God Factor

By Sarah Posner

…UPDATE: In case you had any doubts, check out this lengthy list of pastor and Christian activist endorsements on his site.) …

Is Covid-19 Introducing a New Generation to Fears of ‘Jewish Contagion’?

By Amanda Furiasse

…Young Israel of New York.” Even leading journalists questioned the health officials’ decision. USA Today journalist Joseph Spector observed that “the same mandates have not been applied to other neighboring communities where some cases have been found.” In stark contrast to New Rochelle, a week earlier when a New York City woman who lived in Manhattan tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from Iran, health officials assured residents of Ne…

The Dark Side of Our Obsession With Trapped Thai Children

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…e can substitute our feelings of abhorrence and, dare we say, guilt at the site of caged children here in the United States, for an obsession with the trapped Thai children. They threaten no one. They are victims of nature. Their entrapment is not our fault. Our feelings are safe with them. We have room in our hearts for all of these children. But the question facing us as an American community is whether we will make room in our country for the k…

Taking On The Religious Right…In Kansas? Yes.

By Daniel Schultz

…m I so excited by it)? Let me count the ways: It’s true. Check the Holland site for the citations, which are difficult to refute. Lou Engle has horrible politics. Brownback should have his judgment questioned for hanging around with him. More to the point, whether you like it or not, hanging a bigoted person around your opponent’s neck is an accepted and efficient political tactic. Fred Phelps has even more horrible politics. More to the point, he…

Updated: Response to the New York Times on Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…lso responded to the Luttwak’s piece in letters published on the Times Web site —ed.] Edward Luttwak writes in a May 12 New York Times Op-Ed that Senator Barack Obama is an apostate from Islam and will therefore harm our relations with the Muslim-majority world. His entire piece is predicated on an ignorance of fundamental issues of Muslim legal thought and apparent misunderstanding of how people think. Sen. Obama is an exceptionally charismatic s…

Well, It Would Have Been a Good Religion Question…

By Sarah Posner

…ll, which fights for the right of women to pray aloud at Judaism’s holiest site. “At the coercion of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox religious establishment,” Menachem Z. Rosensaft writes in the Forward: women are forbidden to read from the Torah or to wear prayer shawls or tefilin in the plaza in front of the Wall. Women who defy these prohibitions, including Hoffman, are routinely harassed. Earlier this year, during the summer, Hoffman disclosed that, “…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…their social distancing practices, filming words of remembrance at varied sites of significance to the deceased: a back porch rocking chair, a local fishing pond, a beloved hiking trail, the site of a first date or a family vacation or a long-held job. This could draw together in the space between the physical and the non-physical a deceased person and a community of human and more-than-human others sharing a cyborg mourning space. Then, via what…