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The Ghost Is More Important Than The Machine: Norman Corwin (1910-2011)

By Peter Manseau

…spell conjuring the sensation of what a “miracle” it truly was: “This microphone is not an ordinary instrument / For it looks out on vistas wide indeed,” he wrote. “My voice commingles now with northern lights and asteroids and Alexander’s skeleton / With dead volcanoes and with donkey’s ears… / It drifts among whatever spirits pass across the night.” Corwin was the first radio scribe who wrote with full awareness of what this new medium meant and…

Hagee and Others See
End Times in North African Revolutions

By Joanna Brooks

…, and Libya,” and “Gomer and Togarmarh” (interpreted as Turkey and Eastern Europe) in war against Israel. “Russia will arm and equip a vast confederacy,” Lindsey wrote. “The territory of Northern Africa is becoming solidly pro-Soviet.” But according to Lindsey divine intervention would save Israel, defeat Gog and Magog, and then hasten the battle of Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ. Millions upon millions of Christians bought, believed, a…

Creationists Try to Claim Scopes

By Lauri Lebo

…ociety. Our Founding Fathers, acquainted with the bloody religious wars in Europe, had written into the Constitution the right of religious freedom and had further provided, by means of the doctrine of the separation of church and state, that no religious group should control or unduly influence any arm of secular government. I believe that had we reached the Supreme Court we would have been victorious on this issue.” The more I read about Scopes,…

CPAC Speaker Admires Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

…ts,” the CPAC audience sits up and listens. And they were also listening to someone who thinks that a far-right nationalist in Europe is someone to admire….

No Democracy in Huckabee’s Orientalist Egypt

By Michael J. Altman

…tudy, aptly titled Orientalism, he wrote, “the Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience.” This contrast has taken many forms in American culture like the image of the mystical and magical Orient represented in popular culture through films such as Disney’s Aladdin; or there’s the ascetic and contemplative East represented by popular images of Gandhi and the popularity of Rumi’s poetry…

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…egislation in accordance with which, as he said, people are being tried in Europe and elsewhere, or whether it takes another form. But the point is it won’t be America if shari’ah is part of our legal code, if it’s allowed as a political reality to take hold in this country. In short, speaking for myself and I think for my colleagues, we’re about trying to keep America shari’ah free. Lamborn, who said he was pleased to co-host the event, called Ok…

What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…c of presidential candidates. In the 2008 campaign, John McCain said, “The number one issue people should make selection of the president of the United Sates is ‘Will this person carry on the Judeo-Christian tradition that has made this nation the greatest experiment in the history of mankind?’” In his recent critique of American religious illiteracy, religion scholar Stephen Prothero sees the political use of “Judeo-Christian values” as generatin…

2010: A Banner Year for Biblical Patriarchy

By Julie Ingersoll

…eedom Tour” led well-heeled biblical, home schooling families on a tour of Europe. They sought to “chronicle and record” the history of the “perseverance of the church” in an effort to remind them that “the gates of hell will not prevail” against it. Celebrating the success of their San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, they reveled in the fact that their keynote speaker’s Christian films are now available at Wal-Mart and that TV and Ch…

Taking the Christ Back Out of Christmas: Secularizing the Season

By C. Joshua Villines

…has nothing to do with it. When Christianity rose to prominence in Western Europe, people took their existing festal activities and whitewashed them with a veneer of the gospel. The origins of those traditions, however, are no more Christian than those of Easter eggs or the Easter Bunny. This was a time of goodwill and generosity long before anyone heard of a baby born in a stable. In fact, the most familiar and heartwarming stories we associate w…

WikiLeaks Strikes the Vatican, a Camel in the Pews, and Luke Skywalker Tolerance

By Michael J. Altman

…on and is responsible for hostilities toward Turkey in its bid to join the European Union. The cable states that “allowing a Muslim country into the EU would further weaken [then Cardinal Ratzinger’s] case for Europe’s Christian foundations.” In Ecuador, a Polish Catholic missionary was beaten to death with a crucifix. And in Phoenix, Arizona, the bishop is threatening to strip St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center of its Catholic status over a…