Religion Dispatches
…have noticed there is not much difference between what I just got from an online order in the US and what I got from a shop in Indonesia. Both are white, cotton, light outfits, people talk a lot about the desert heat, so that is a universal consideration when these outfits are made, I guess. Both have long, opened sleeves, no cuffs; either for convenience of making ablutions before rituals, or for simplicity sake. I can’t tell that either since t…
Read More…aggressive attempt at outreach, federal agencies, in conference calls and online seminars, instructed faith-based groups on how to apply for the grants, and federal officials sometimes stepped in when the state officials who distribute the money were reluctant to spend it on groups associated with churches and other religious establishments. I wouldn’t say that this effort was unpublicized, at least for reporters who covered Obama’s Office of Fai…
Read More…ed as a homogeneous whole. For the sake of simplicity, I will refer to the online quiz at this point only. However, the pattern I am suggesting for the shorter quiz easily maps out onto the larger survey. Question 2 asks about Mother Teresa’s religion, and two options are “Catholic” and “Mormon.” Pew is either entering a theological debate here, suggesting that Catholics and Mormons are two different religious traditions, or that there is such fam…
Read More…is part of his Pastafarian religion. A Catholic bishop in Chicago had his online identity stolen by email scammers. The scammers used the Bishop Joseph Perry’s email address and a fake Facebook page in his name to scam victims out of money for an orphanage in Africa that had supposedly burned down. The Catholic Church has canonized the first Australian-born saint. Some are calling Mother Mary MacKillop the Patron Saint of Whistleblowers for her b…
Read More…iments in Guatemala carried out by the US in 1946. The paper was published online on the Wellesley website at 9 a.m. EST, October 2, 2010, while President Obama called Guatemalan President Àlvaro Colom Caballeros to apologize. Sixty-four years ago, as the Nuremburg trials investigating Nazi abuse of people in the name of science were going on in post-WWII Germany, the United States Public Health Service was intentionally exposing Guatemalans to th…
Read More…ion leader and founder Judson Phillips is calling for the defeat of Congressman Keith Ellison because he is a Muslim. Tea Party Nation claims 30,000 online members — and no one has called for him to retract the statement….
Read More…my daughter-in-law, discovered this because she makes tutus and sells them online to customers around the country. One day, Ayden wanted to model one of her creations and she let him. He looks fabulous in his tutu, and even wore a rainbow colored one for the Pride celebration this year. He rocked that tutu. Fortunately for Ayden, no one has yet to ridicule this beautiful boy in a tutu — but a boy his mom calls “Boo” on her blog was not so lucky. T…
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…s Crusade for Christ, now boasts 400 students and is hoping to double that number within a few years. The college proclaims that it “educates students to lead with principle as they aspire to make America better. We prepare students for principled leadership. And nothing else.” But King’s made headlines in September after its new president, the conservative writer and pundit Dinesh D’Souza, argued in a Forbes cover story that President Obama is mo…
Read More…rief in the Michigan case, which is headed to the Court of Appeals, via an online petition for its “Committee to Declare Pro-Abortion ObamaCare Unconstitutional.” If anti-choice groups can’t succeed in challenging the law in court, at least on the abortion question the new chair of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, Rep. Joe Pitts, one of the most virulently anti-choice members of the House, plans to try to attempt a legislative rollb…
Read More…refusing to negotiate with terrorists. Doritos yanked an ad entered in its online Super Bowl commercial contest because it substituted Pepsi and Doritos for bread and wine in the Eucharist. Evangelical leader Frank DeMoss has decided to shut down his Civility Project—which sought to keep political discourse, well, civil. Despite asking every member of Congress and every state governor to take his civility pledge, DeMoss could only convince three p…
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