Search for "Delta Airlines 1800-299-7264 Customer Service Center"

‘I Don’t Buy It’: The Gospel According to Frank Underwood

By Cathleen Falsani

…ter, but he’s still a human, if only just. Perhaps worried that his Secret Service guy Meechum or the bishop might see what he’s done, Frank takes out his handkerchief and reaches up to wipe away the spit from the crucifix, which suddenly detaches from the wall and crashes to the ground, barely missing the spitter. Meechum rushes to the aid of his president, who says, “I was praying and it just fell,” before exiting the church. On his way out of t…

The Culture War of the Future

By Ira Chernus

…s called the “culture wars,” beginning in the late 1960s, at first did not center on issues of religion. He notes that the issues currently dominating US political debate have little or nothing to do with religion. Nevertheless, he warns, divisive religious issues “will remain ready to flare up at the least provocation.” Yes, they might. But why believe they will? Steinfels’ only substantive answer comes in his closing paragraphs, where he specula…

Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?

By Christopher Douglas

…e surprised by this turn of events. After all, the prophetic figure at the center of Christianity was a master critic of moral hypocrisy, a sensibility that now seems all but lost on his white evangelical followers. Jesus questioned those who sought to morally discipline their fellows while themselves falling prey to greater sin: “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your nei…

Islam, Essential to America?

By Scott Korb

…s the most important take-home message for readers? For the Muslims at the center of this book—and all those who identify with Zaytuna’s purpose—America is home. Is there anything you had to leave out? There was. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? Where to begin with misconceptions about Islam? Light without Fire was built on the misperception that Islam is essentially violent. In the title is my answer: The students and…

Texas Faith Leaders Say Governor’s Use of Pandemic to Ban Abortion is an Attack on Religious Freedom (Updated)

By David R. Brockman

…se they’ve already passed the 10-week limit by the time they arrive at her center. Robinson and Rabbi Freedman also noted that the continuing ban on surgical abortion forces women to make lengthy trips out of state, where they and their family members could potentially be exposed to COVID-19 and then bring it back to their communities. That “totally undercuts the moral argument” behind the ban, Freedman said. Besides the hardships the ban places o…

Court Rules Against Texas Education Employee Forced To Resign Over Forwarded Email

By Lauri Lebo

…agency e-mail account in late 2007 to forward a message from the National Center for Science Education, under the subject heading “FYI.” An official, outraged over the email, demanded that Comer resign from her position. The issue? The email was about an upcoming talk by Barbara Forrest, a philosopher of science and one of the creationists’ most hated enemies. Forrest wrote, along with her co-author Paul R. Gross, Creationism’s Trojan Horse, a da…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…ds) In a 2022 Facebook Live video Carrie Sheffield, the director of AFPI’s Center for American Values offers a version of the standard yet misleading explanation of Christian Right politics, claiming that they seek to “leverage churches” by educating them on the America First agenda, through their Biblical Foundations initiative. While their goal “whatever your industry,” is to implement state level policies that are based on the Bible, she nevert…

Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine

By Katherine Kelaidis

…It was also in 2016 that the Russian Orthodox Church opened its “spiritual center” in the heart of Paris, which is widely suspected of serving as a base for Russian intelligence. And in Finland, where the Orthodox Church of Finland (an autonomous church under the authority of the Patriarchate of Constantinople) enjoys the status of being one of two national churches, there are whispers that a church under the jurisdiction of Moscow was recently tu…

Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party

By Michelle Goldberg

…tions,” said Scott Loveless, Executive Director of the World Family Policy Center. “It appeared to be a pretty concerted effort to shape customary international law into, essentially, the Equal Rights Amendment.” Soon, Wilkins began working with conservative activist Allan Carlson to stage a series of large global gatherings under the banner of “The World Congress of Families,” and as producers of the recently released documentary Demographic Wint…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…A National Call for Moral Revival and Union Theological Seminary’s Kairos Center, which jointly sponsored the conference. Nosie, who now leads Apache Stronghold, an organization that seeks to “battle continued colonization, defend Holy sites and freedom of religion,” thanked Campaign co-chairs Rev. William Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis for what he called “the opportunity.” “The reason I say opportunity is because I believe we have never be…