Search for "cheap airline tickets from alexandria louisiana to nashville tennessee phone number 1-800-299-7264"

Attacks on Science: Predictions for the New Year

By Lauri Lebo

…supplemental materials is one of his proudest achievements. Meanwhile, in Louisiana, creationists, led by members of the fundamentalist Christian organization Louisiana Family Forum, have lost their battle to defeat science textbooks that include legitimate science. It’s doubtful that its creationist supporters are just going to accept defeat. So, look for them to try to sneak in anti-evolution supplemental materials into local local school distr…

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…age. His 2012 book, The Buddha Walks into a Bar, has sold widely. Over the phone, I asked Rinzler why he and Burrows had chosen to establish the studio as a for-profit company. “We really wanted to make sure we had all the resources we need for supporting people who are trying meditation for the first time,” Rinzler explained. Because they’re a business, there’s more professionalism. The teachers they’ve hired show up on time, and, as Rinzler put…

Scopes Redux DOA Pending Expert Input

By Lauri Lebo

…recommendations of, well, some experts. Science faculty from University of Tennessee-Chattanooga had urged Watson, who earned his B.A. in Biology from there, to reconsider the bill’s wording. Watson’s decision to heed the advice of actual scientists (at least until he can gather more information) is a refreshing change from the way it’s otherwise been going in Tennessee. In debating the House version earlier this month, supportive lawmakers decrie…

Richard Land Steps Down, But Not Out of the Culture Wars

By Aaron Weaver

…-sitters. Instead, Land and his old mentor Paul Pressler flocked to former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, an infrequent churchgoer with a spotty “pro-life” record. Before Thompson even made an official announcement, Land was appearing on cable news networks trying to sell the Law & Order star to the masses calling him a “Southern-fried Reagan.” Once Senator John McCain secured the GOP nomination, Land fell in line, reasoning that a “third-rate f…

RDBook: Wifely Submission and Christian Warfare

By Kathryn Joyce

…“accidental” women’s ministry, there was Nancy Campbell. In Primm Springs, Tennessee, a point in a web of barely paved country roads southwest of Nashville lined by hay bales festooned with American flags and notices to “Vote Yes on 1 to Protect Marriage,” I met one of the grande dames of American Christian womanhood, Nancy Campbell, author of books such as Be Fruitful and Multiply and The Power of Motherhood, and the self-titled “editriss” of the…

Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel

By Peter Laarman

…I fervently wish that Mr. Obama would say a bit more about the problem of cheap grace. Reminding us that people who work very hard for very little are not the abusers of cheap grace, but that others in well-feathered nests who are preaching sacrifice might be in real trouble on the cheap grace front. Obama cannot and should not condemn those in the electorate who buy into Romney’s “there will be showers of blessing” message, but he probably does …

Swift-Boat Veterans of American Jewry Charge Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street

By Jay Michaelson

…es ECI’s leadership – knows this to be the case. Which makes ECI’s video a cheap lie — yet another in a long litany of desperate efforts by the far right to convert the largely liberal American Jewish community to neo-conservatism, hawkish policies on Israel, and the belief that “Barack Hussein Obama” is a Muslim. That said, there actually are two interesting forms of antisemitism going on here. First is the antisemitism of ECI itself. To tug at…

The Problem with the Latest Predictions for ‘the Rise of the Religious Left’

By Hollis Phelps

…sees in such prominent figures such as Lady Gaga and junior congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Catholic who isn’t afraid to pull out a few biblical references against the current administration, the future of Christianity in the United States. Hence Graves-Fitzsimmons’s contemporary interpretation of Jesus’ claim of the prophet Isaiah’s mantle in the Gospel of Luke “to bring good news to the poor.” He writes: “Jesus announces h…

Prisoners In the Hands of an Angry God: A Conversation About Religion and Reform

By Andrew Aghapour and Stephanie Gaskill

…al rehabilitation, which is the subject of a faith-based reform program at Louisiana’s Angola Prison. You must have a different sense of how religion and criminal justice interact “on the ground.” I’ve been fascinated by the fact that so many people could share very similar theological views, but then come to different conclusions about what that theology should mean for people in prison. As I’ve talked with people, it has become clear that a numb…

Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…, a white church in a conservative Presbyterian denomination in Nashville, Tennessee. I spoke to her at the start of 2017 and at its close. The following is an edited and condensed version of our conversations, which took place over phone and email. FEBRUARY 2017 Since the election, how has your relationship with white evangelicalism shifted? Sundays are hard. The last few months, as the temperature has turned up, I just get angry when sermons don…