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Religion Dispatches
A conservative Christian calls the head of one of the most powerful religious right organizations a bully for his demonizing remarks about LGBT people.
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Religion Dispatches
And other twists on end-times talk.
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Religion Dispatches
It didn’t help that Galileo would satirize and mock the Church hierarchy.
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Religion Dispatches
Some professional historians and scholars of American religion have criticized PBS’ God doc. This is not a surprise. After all, when has the academic community ever been comfortable watching its territory invaded by an army of people lacking PhDs? On blogs, religion and history listserves, and chat rooms around the country, academics have labeled the series “oversimplified,” “truly bizarre,” “simplistic,” “intolerable,” “uneventful,” “underwhelming.” Essentially they are calling the series not enough of an “intellectual endeavor.”
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Religion Dispatches
Last week’s six-hour PBS documentary, God in America, wasn’t really about God in America. Nor was it about religions in America. Following a fairly conventional narrative in mainstream discourse (albeit not one adopted by the contemporary Christian right), the series…
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Religion Dispatches
But there are some surprising things that will.
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Religion Dispatches
“Whoever has done an atom’s weight of good, shall see it; and whoever has done an atom’s weight of sin, shall see it.”
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Religion Dispatches
Florida’s bitterly contested Governor race just got more controversial.
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Religion Dispatches
The political types, both right and left, have managed to create the idea that the sixties were a time of leftist, collectivist politics. But this was actually an era of mad individualism, not collectivism, of romantic essentialism, not social construction. The old lefties failed in their every effort to organize… and a lot of old hippies are Ron Paul types today.
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