Inauguration 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.
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Warren 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 MoreGay Bishop’s Prayer Is Cut From Broadcast
Bishop Gene Robinson’s prayer at the “We are One” inaugural event is silenced by technical difficulties, and cut from the broadcast. If you pray and HBO doesn’t cover it, can God still hear it?
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Not Easily Broken, Not Easily Viewed
Dallas preacher T.D. Jakes’ latest foray into film features staid sermonizing, rigid gender constructs, and a whopper of a racial subtext.
Read MoreDoll Says “Islam Is The Light”: People Freak Out
Protesters claim that a toy is summoning young girls to join Islam. We just wonder what’s going on at the Mattel factory…
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Revelations from Family of Secrets (an addendum)
Bush connections to JFK, the Bay of Pigs, and the Saudi royal family are investigated by renowned journalist Russ Baker in his new book, hot off the press.
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RDEpistle: Open Letter to Sean Hannity
Bestsellers by the stars of conservative media were found amongst the belongings of the Knoxville killer. Here is a plea for sanity to the author of “Let Freedom Ring”…
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The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency
Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.
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Left, Behind on Obama’s Warren Strategy
Expecting the not-yet-commander-in-chief to attend to each of my parochial concerns is a little, well, precious.
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Happy Kwanzaa! I Guess….
Don’t hate me because I prefer stories about my father butchering The Temptations’ version of Silent Night to dressing my kids in kente cloth.
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