Religion Dispatches
…y contrast, just 10% of Romney’s support comes from non-Christians (8% unaffiliated, 2% non-Christian religious). How many points does Obama really score by burnishing his evangelical cred? Does it outpace the losses of those put off by it? As his opponents gin up conspiracy theories, he could just let the religion card drop. It really wouldn’t be the end of the world….
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…become the latest “sinful” activity. Perhaps Rev. Miller should get on the phone to Sarah Palin, and counsel her about her kids’ activity on Facebook. Bristol Palin found time from her “Dancing with the stars” practice to get on Facebook with her sister Willow to ride on a friend who had the chutzpah to say “Sarah Palin’s Alaska is failing so hard right now.” Willow’s response was to call the poster a gay slur, and Bristol jumping in the fray to r…
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…d been ordered, and that the message was coming not just through this diminutive woman but from someplace far beyond. After the breakfast, Emily Belz, a reporter for the evangelical magazine World, grew curious about what ever happened to the “home for babies” and the adoption plans Clinton described. Belz found that it had closed years ago, and that the nuns who’d staffed it wouldn’t talk to the press. According to a pastor at the church next doo…
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…st simultaneously: This is the best moment in my lifetime, politically. Shout out to the ancestors who r rejoicing with us 2night! Oh yeah. President Obama! A new day is on the way! Yes GOD can! Yes we can! They didn’t want to give us 40 acres and a mule so dammit we will take 50 states and a white house! OBAMA 08! We NEED to PRAY for this president the most!!! And a most provocative email from a close friend: I hope that Mr. Obama can bring the c…
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…vement is giving voice to all of our previously silent reservations and shouting out a very loud non serviam! It really leaves the establishment with very little to say. What’s their response going to be: domination is good for you?? It was a little more than three decades ago when Margaret Thatcher proclaimed that “there is no such thing as society—there are only individuals.” I think it’s possible that acquisitive individualism is nearing the e…
Read More…r is Molotov Mitchell, whom Cary K. Gordon, president of PeaceMakers 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…
Read More…increasingly unique ways, giving respect to both tradition and individual preference. “Duality is one of the main characterizations of the Jew in postmodern existence,” says Rabbi Bachman. “One can make the non-Jewish decision to cremate at the same time as making the decision to put out a shmear when sitting shivah. As much as I might disagree with cremation, I disagree even more with denying people the right to experience Judaism in the way tha…
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…nk all over his office, to intimidate young patients, and he was anything but a neutral practitioner. He was also the top opposition to California’s life-saving law, banning conversion therapy, and he wrote letters to the supreme court of CA to fight for the right to allow LGBT kids to continue being subject to dangerous and abusive conversion practices. If you truly love your child, or family member, do not bring them to this monster. ‘Please DO…
Read More…she said. Participants in a “Straight Lives Matter” rally in Sydney were outnumbered by police and counter-protesters. Meanwhile, ballots have reportedly been stolen from people’s mailboxes. In other news, the Tasmanian Parliament approved legislation to allow people convicted under pre-1997 laws against homosexual activity to have those offences stricken from their records. Philippines: Anti-discrimination bill gets final House approval; legisla…
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…me with questions as a pastor, I’d have answers I could share with them about their doubts. But the answers led to more questions that led to more research. I even called myself a progressive Christian for a while, but slowly realized I couldn’t hide from the answers any longer. In the summer of 2011, I knew the faith I held to for all my life was gone. Tell me about your connection with the project for clergy who no longer “hold supernatural beli…
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