Insert Provocative Title Here: The New Media Landscape
As online media supplants traditional publishing quantity is often mistaken for quality, some say. Especially where religion reporting is concerned.
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President Receives Mixed Messages from Catholic Hierarchy
In a jolly pope-a-gram, Benedict welcomes the new president; the head US Cardinal is not so friendly in his welcome.
Read MoreRick Warren and The (Necessary) Narcissism of Faith
Warren’s prayer began with all of us, narrowed itself to the Judeo-Christian monotheist, then more narrowly still on the Christian, then more narrowly still on that faith as experienced by Rick Warren himself. A stunning rhetorical achievement.
Read MoreHe Changed Bush’s Heart, Yet Destroyed the Faith of a Nation!
The outgoing president’s much-vaunted faith may have given religion a bad name.
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Heteronormativity: A Discussion
Louis Ruprecht responds to a reader: is gay marriage really a religious issue? Maybe not. But that doesn’t make the issue any less tangled.
Read More“I Am Pro-Choice and Pro-Life”
While the decision for any individual to abort or not is a delicate and fraught one, the desire for state control women’s bodies comes down to good old fashioned misogyny.
Read MoreCardinal Warns Women Against Marrying Muslims: Would Bring “A Pile of Trouble”
The Portuguese Cardinal’s warning manages to be a cocktail of Islamophobia, racism, sexism, xenophobia…
Read MoreInauguration Captures US Patchwork
The door is not just open to Muslim Americans; we are not sitting in the living room; there is a room for us in the house now.
Read MoreWarren Continues “Aggressively Christian” Tradition
While calling for all Americans to unite and work together, Warren used his “aggressively Christian” prayer to perpetuate and deepen the religious divide in our country.
Read MoreEqual Opportunity Apocalypse or: Our Psycho-Sexual Brouhaha
What can the strange juxtaposition of Warren and Robinson teach us about the current state of the religion-and-culture wars?
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