Here we go again, back into the church-state turf defined by the words “viewpoint discrimination.”
Awesome speech case in Newark
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Worship, Wars, Presbyterians, Hollywood
In this day and age, it is almost a relief to find a church fighting about something other than sex.
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"Fires of hell" rage on at Academy
I have let a few extra days pass on the Air Force Academy story, while I try to surf the waves of coverage.
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W. David Hager gets probed
As a prolifer and a Bush appointee to an FDA advisory committee, W. David Hager has seen his share of fierce opposition. It’s likely to grow fiercer still amid disturbing allegations made by his former wife.
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The New York Times folks see red
This is the rare week when I was writing a post for GetReligion and then realized that it was turning into my next Scripps Howard News Service column. As you know, I hardly ever post my column here. But here it is, only with the URLS that show what I was trying to do for the blog.
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On the Academy and offensive speech
This is a note from a reader, addressing my take on the one-sided Los Angeles Times series on religious tensions at the Air Force Academy. This is an important issue to this blog, so let’s dig into it a bit.
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That Air Force train keeps rolling
I have been meaning to get back to this story the second half of the week, but many other things kept getting in the way. Over at the Los Angeles Times, reporter David Kelly continues to roll with the story of evangelical abuses at the Air Force Academy.
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Southern Baptists chilling out?
Now here is a story that ought to be on page one in major newspapers across what some people still call the Bible Belt. Take The Dallas Morning News, for example, or The Atlanta Journal-Counstitution.
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Evangelicals and alternate realities
Try to imagine reading novelist Jonathan Dee’s New York Times Magazine essay — on Christians who develop video games — before last November’s presidential election. Dee is an elegant writer, but his topic has a Parachuting Into Red State America flavor, especially because he misses some basic connections.
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