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Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.

By Daniel Schultz

…eceived a vaccine A nearby religious congregation serving as a vaccination site Religious communities providing vaccine appointment assistance. Responses to the individual approaches might not seem like much at first. Each item on the list makes between 10-13% of hesitant respondents and 2-3% of the resistant say it might shift their thinking. But it adds up quickly, with nearly half of Black Protestants saying one or more approach could change th…

What Does Anti-Christian Even Mean?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…freedom (especially Christian religious freedom), Dr. Gary Cass at the web site Defend Christians has come out with his top ten “Anti-Christian Acts of 2010.” Coming it at number one on the hit parade is the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that ended employment discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans. Cass warns that the new law “would force ministries to hire people who oppose the beliefs o…

In the Story of the New Testament We Are the Romans—No Matter Who Wins the Election

By Stephen Hinerman

…ved back to the White House. They’d never even asked permission to use the site for this clearly political display. My thought, watching it, was simple: Rome just did what Rome does. Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders I couldn’t help but also think of a few of the paintings depicting the Crusades centuries after that invasion by Europe of the Middle East. There’s one in particular called “Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, 15th July 1099” by…

Conservative Christians Disgusted With Palin’s Religious Talk

By Sarah Posner

…ism rather than means of God’s grace. In fact, that’s exactly what the web site of Wasilla Bible Church says. But I would hope that even these traditions wouldn’t take it so lightly as to joke about it in the context of waterboarding. Or even if it is considered OK to joke about waterboarding being baptism by these folks, I’d hope they recognize how blasphemous it sounds to the ears of Christians who retain the historic and high view of the sacram…

Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

By Frederick Clarkson

…ic killings of Nuban civilians. White body bags were also seen at a second site containing two apparent pits, where, according to the SSP report, a witness saw men “unloading dead bodies from the trucks and depositing them in the open pits” including some that appeared to be in bags that were ‘white’ and ‘plastic’; others were in light brown bags made of a different kind of material. Some bodies were not in any type of body bag or wrapping.” No on…

How Israeli Military Intelligence Cooks the Books

By Richard Silverstein

…it warned that in light of the religious and political sensitivity of the site, “violent confrontations are liable to develop with our forces.” Three days later the intelligence researchers stated: “Arafat is not interested in an all-out confrontation, which is liable to pull the ground from under him.” A 2004 investigation…conducted by MI’s Palestinian desk, found unequivocally that the second intifada erupted as a “popular protest” because peop…

Beinart’s Naivete about the Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…es being raised now in defense of building the center near the ground zero site. For the religious right, religious freedom is about “defending” Christians against anti-Christian bigotry. That sort of supposed “discrimination” includes letting gay people get married, not allowing prayer in public settings, and the like. In other words, the religious right not getting its way. The right is so dedicated to this narrative that it has succeeded in ref…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…B-A-M and another A you get o-BAMA. That’s a link. I’m just saying. Lowe’s = Obama = Socialism. Think about that, left-wingers. RM: I think Lowes’ ill-conceived PR decisions of late are even mind-boggling to my Canadian Socialist self! In your role in taking over our entertainment industry, you’ve appeared in some of America’s best-loved shows. You are even versatile enough to play brown, Muslim, American terrorists. But don’t you find your role i…

Pastafarian Rights, Israeli Rosa Parks, Orthodox
Jewish P.I.

By Michael J. Altman

…econd-generation Indian Americans are working to Americanize Hinduism. The Hill Cumorah Pageant wraps up this weekend in New York. The festival takes place on the site where Mormon founder Joseph Smith discovered the golden plates that became the Book of Mormon….

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…d have been ripped from the headlines of the sensationalistic conservative site World Net Daily, but the setting was far more staid. The speaker, David Noebel, part of The King’s College Distinguished Visitors series, was introduced by outgoing King’s Provost and World magazine editor Marvin Olasky as “one of the long-lasting stalwarts of fighting for a lot of things we’re for here at King’s: religious, political, and economic liberty.” King’s, a…