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Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…waste American money to buy their expensive oil when we could have our own cheap oil?” “Why is he trying to make rich people poor?” “How is it right to punish rich people for working hard and realizing the American Dream?” It was late on a Friday night and I was tired, so I half-heartedly responded by explaining that there are other factors to consider in every charged question she’d been armed with. But I wondered, “Why the hell was the Salvation…

Fight to the ‘Death’ and Go ‘Hungry’ at Hunger Games Camp

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…se imprisonment and torture have also been hidden. We have not literally witnessed their suffering. We have witnessed a simulacra, a video capture of Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) voluntarily undergoing (part of) the forced feeding procedure in a disturbing YouTube short that went viral. This drew some public attention to the practice, though it continues. Yet in Florida, children are frolicking in a green field, focusing on weapons, not hunger, a…

Palin Goes ‘Hopey-Changey,’ But Don’t Call it Political

By Julie Ingersoll

…icker to platform, her examples became increasingly, explicitly political. Florida had introduced “Choose Life!” vanity license plates whose revenue would go to organizations that promote adoption—but only those that do not discuss abortion as an alternative. She lauded Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice, and former member of congress, Charles Canady for “shepherding the ‘partial-birth abortion’ bill through Congress,” and called for better leade…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…diom of the culture in order to communicate the gospel. While a student in Florida, Graham felt a divine call to preach and began doing so on street corners and, later, as a supply preacher. Several months before completing his studies at Florida Bible Institute, Graham was ordained a Southern Baptist minister. Feeling he needed still more education, however, he enrolled at Wheaton College in the western suburbs of Chicago. There he met, and event…

Jeb Bush Is Confused About Religious Freedom

By Sarah Posner

…low for people of faith to be able to exercise theirs.” Bush is wrong that Florida’s RFRA and the federal RFRA have laws “like” Indiana’s. As I explained yesterday, a crucial difference between the Indiana law and a state law like Florida’s (and the federal RFRA) lies in statutory definitions. The Indiana law provides that a “person whose exercise of religion has been substantially burdened, or is likely to be substantially burdened, by a violatio…

Evangelicals Struggle With the Role of Churches in Society

By Omri Elisha

…ected the culture of civil society. However, as I began doing fieldwork in Knoxville, I was quickly drawn to a different angle on the story. The suburban evangelicals I observed kept talking about their deficiencies when it came to social outreach. Pastors and churchgoers complained that their congregations didn’t do enough to serve poor and distressed people in their community, or to address societal concerns such as urban poverty and racial ineq…

Compassion for AZ Shooter?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…shooting is still unclear. It’s not like the shooter who opened fire in a Knoxville, Tennessee Unitarian Universalist Church. He had books by Sean Hannity and other right-wing talkers in his possession and was clear he was out to kill liberals. The motives here are not so clear – but what is clear is that the tenor of our national dialogue is toxic and dangerous. No matter the motive, the outcome is the same – the shootings strike fear in all our…

Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation

By Frederick Clarkson and Cloee Cooper

…and appointed Shea as his successor in order to plant a Patriot Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, he explained, “This is God moving generals around.” There are now Patriot churches in Lynchburg, VA and Spokane as well. Shea’s Covenant Church in Spokane is an “affiliate.” Peters pioneered the tactic of staging events they call The Church at Planned Parenthood which takes the form of worship services in front of the PP centers that are obviously inte…

King Witness’ Story Undermined By Reality

By Sarah Posner

…m in late 2004. This is what King said yesterday, of Bledsoe and another witness who said his nephew was radicalized: Their courage and spirit will put a human face on the horror which Islamist radicalization has inflicted and will continue to inflict on good families, especially those in the Muslim community, unless we put aside political correctness and define who our enemy truly is. I’m not holding my breath on a correction from him. UPDATE: My…

Anti-Science Bill Passes Tennessee House

By Lauri Lebo

…ngths and weaknesses” bill introduced by Tennessee State Rep. Bill Dunn, R-Knoxville, passed overwhelmingly in the House last week by a 70 to 23 vote. While Dunn insists that the bill is not anti-evolution, but merely about improving teaching in the public schools, comments by the bill’s supporters reveal a stunning hostility towards science and education. Andy Sher writing for the Chattanooga Free Press, quotes bill-supporter Rep. Richard Floyd,…