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Does Palin care more about bringing down the wall of separation or engaging in self-promotion?

Evangelicals forget Christ’s words about prayer.

And Jesus wept.

You’re welcome here, just don’t do THAT!

With the firepower of the religious right behind it, could this “multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-national” revival get off the ground?

In the eighth and final installation of Mark Dery’s “critical novella” about a ’70s Jesus Freak who switches saviors (from J.C. to Ziggy), the author connects the dots between his devout Bowiephilia and what theologians call kenosis—the emptying out of the self to make room for the indwelling spirit of god.

Why did the chairman of golf’s most prestigious tournament have the temerity to violate the Great Public Ritual of Celebrity Disgrace by publicly castigating Tiger Woods just as he was headed for redemption? Did Woods’ socially-proscribed moral transgressions simply provide Golf’s Old Guard a perfect opportunity to reassert who should be in and who should be out?

Citizens are still free to pray on their own.

The judge issues a mixed bag of early rulings leaving most of the larger issues to a jury.