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 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?
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?
Read MoreFarewell, Mr. Bush
The final legacy of the second Bush presidency is the profound sense of a nation and its civic institutions set morally adrift.
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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 MoreSenior Saudi Cleric Supports Child Marriage
Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh says if it was good enough for preceding generations it is good enough for contemporary folk.
Read MoreHow Israeli Military Intelligence Cooks the Books
An Israeli reporter documents the ways in which Israel’s military intelligence has spread disinformation going back to the failure of Camp David and the beginning of the second intifada in 2000.
Read MoreNew Bailout For Hypocrites
Right wing American Family Association is blaming Obama for the bailout. How ridiculous.
Read MoreInauguration: An Evangelical And A Gay Bishop—What’s Missing?
As the Obama team rounds up unlikely bedfellows for the inaugural ceremonies it seems to have forgotten something: we are not all Christian.
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