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RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy

By Tom Davis

…nd charities and lives on the remaining 10 percent. Unlike flashy televangelists, he has no interest in large homes, yachts, cars; in fact, he won’t even go on television because, he has said, he wants to support local ministers, not compete with them. He has provided “purpose-driven” curricula and other materials to over 25,000 churches, and hundreds of thousands of pastors have attended seminars or conferences with him and other Saddleback Churc…

Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…as crucified by the Jews,” back in 2001, nevertheless had an extraordinary list of accomplishments: He “started out as a newspaper and radio reporter, then worked as an aide to Colorado’s Republican senator, Gordon Allott, before plunging into politics,” James Ridgeway and Alicia Ng wrote of his background in a September 2006 interview with Weyrich that focused on his opposition to The Patriot Act. “He set up the Heritage Foundation by persuading…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…y anti-gay and anti-abortion—was provided by a new media outfit called The Judeo-Christian View. Dr. O’Neill Dozier, the General Publisher of JCV, claims to have an initial print circulation of over 325,000 and an e-mail list of approximately 5,000,000. Dozier, a former National Football League player is the founding and current pastor of The Worldwide Christian Center, a non-denominational community church in Pompano Beach, Florida….

Progressive & Religious

By Robert P. Jones

…ices will contribute to a healthier public square and a more vibrant, pluralistic democracy in America. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? If there are two groups I’m taking aim at, it’s the Christian Right that has distorted religion into a partisan agenda on the one hand and the raft of neo-atheist authors that are asserting—largely in (over)reaction to this first group—that “religion poisons everything…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…ter woman for GOP politics, or will she be returned to the frozen tundra?* —- *There has been a surprisingly vibrant discussion surrounding the potential redundancy of the phrase ‘frozen tundra.’ The New York Times’ sports pages reported on Lake Superior State University’s eagerly awaited List of “Words Banished From the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness, 2003 edition,” which banished ‘frozen tundra’ for being redundant (…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…et traders gyrate between exultation and despair as corner-office titans enlist the administration’s Objectivists to refill the trillion-dollar cookie jar they’d raided and stocked with imaginary cookies. Has anyone counted the dead in Iraq? Lapel pins, real Americans, water-boarding and what the frak is a credit-default swap anyway? A wise old Zen master boiled the Dharma down to this: Don’t deceive yourself, don’t make excuses and take responsib…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ite supremacist websites and blogs, hundreds of comments have been posted “promot[ing] centuries-old stereotypes and conspiracy theories alleging Jewish control of the economy, banking and the government,” YNetNews recently reported. The ADL noted that a number of posts “have gone so far as to resurrect Nazi-era propaganda with threads such as ‘The Jewish Problem’ or comments such as, ‘The Final Solution 2?.’” ++++++++++ Christian Professor Concer…

Catholic Bishops Do Siskel & Ebert

By Kate Childs Graham

…; two same-sex kisses; some rough and crude language; and two uses of profanity.” In addition to their reviews, the USCCB Office of Film and Broadcasting also offer Top Ten Lists from each calendar year beginning with 1965. It is probably safe to say that Hamlet 2 will not top the 2008 list….

Inauguration: An Evangelical And A Gay Bishop—What’s Missing?

By Robert V. Thompson

…udes Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, employed and unemployed—the list is endless. What if the opening prayer at the inauguration were a call to recognize that we are all a part of each other in the deepest and most profound way? What if the invocation to the inauguration served as a profound reminder that unless we learn to live together, everything will fall apart. It is true that the majority of religious devotees in America identify t…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…id Horowitz, and Laura Ingraham, most of which have made it to best-seller lists. In a 2002 essay in The American Prospect titled “Hillary Was Right,” journalist Nicholas Confessore characterized Regnery as the “lifestyle press for conservatives, preferred printer of presidential hopefuls, and venerable publisher of books for the culture wars.” Since the advent of the Iraq War, Regnery has added defense of the Bush administration, promotion of the…