Raise your hand if you think that religious conservatives play a major role in the power structure of the Republican Party today.
Is Rush the new Pat Robertson?
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A decade of self-care?
BBC News has missed a good opportunity to explain a Welsh politician’s career change in sufficient detail. The second paragraph in the BBC’s story about Assembly Member Lorraine Barrett says that “she now wants to spend the next decade ‘on herself.’”
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Limiting speech in the U.K.
News coverage in this country tends to focus almost exclusively on American happenings. A review of the Religion Newswriters Association’s top 10 stories from 2008 confirms this.
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Shameless plug for serious friend
If this weblog has a short list of very close friends, Rod “Crunchy Cons” Dreher would have to be near the top of the list. I feel no shame pointing people toward his work, every now and then.
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Issues behind the collar
How do you write a story about the declining number of young priests without asking about, well, you know what? And while we’re at it, you know, the other big elephant in the living room, too?
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The Nazi who fled into Islam?
It has taken me some time to get a handle on that recent New York Times feature that ran with the headline, “Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi” by Souad Mekhennet and Nicholas Kulish.
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Father-son, gay-bi, post-Christian teamwork
Since early in this decade, when I became aware of Mike White’s filmmaking career, I’ve thought it would be rewarding to get him together with his father, Mel, for a conversation about filmmaking and faith. Anyone who has followed Mel White’s career knows he once ghostwrote material for Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham and Pat Robertson, and that he outed himself and became a gay-rights activist in the early 1990s. His work on 53 documentaries usually gets short shrift, even on Internet Movie Database.
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From our "too much info" department
In the immortal words of Meg Ryan in one of my all-time favorite flicks: “I have no response to that.”
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Are you now or have you ever been a Prop. 8 supporter?
After California voters passed Proposition 8 last fall, some opponents of the measure were quite angry. In addition to public protests, some people set up web sites singling out Mormon supporters of the measure, using public records to identify them. Other web sites listed all Prop. 8 supporters, regardless of their religious background.
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