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Religion Dispatches
Religious right boycotters have a new product to avoid along with Charmin toilet paper, Tide detergent, Pampers, Bounty paper towels, Duracell batteries, Mallomars (oh, the torture!), Oscar Mayer hot dogs, Nilla wafers, and Big Macs…
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Religion Dispatches
Sure it was nice that Obama gave a shout out to nonbelievers, but the president’s actions during the campaign give pause to the nation’s atheists and agnostics.
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Religion Dispatches
As online media supplants traditional publishing quantity is often mistaken for quality, some say. Especially where religion reporting is concerned.
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Religion Dispatches
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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Religion Dispatches
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.
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Religion Dispatches
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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Religion Dispatches
Dallas preacher T.D. Jakes’ latest foray into film features staid sermonizing, rigid gender constructs, and a whopper of a racial subtext.
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Religion Dispatches
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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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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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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