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There’s a tangible quality of gloating in Michael Powell’s Washington Post story about the public dispute between Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry and his 24-year-old son, Jamiel, who has outed himself in Out magazine.
The last time we checked in on Thomas Monaghan, the former czar of Domino’s Pizza, his newborn Ave Maria University was rolling out ambitious Phase 1 plans for a campus and surrounding town near Naples, Fla. The headline grabber was a 60,000-square-foot, 150-foot tall sanctuary for 3,300 worshippers that looked like a stack of gigantic metal-and-glass mitres for bishops.
Madonna’s interest in Kabbalah has guaranteed regular coverage — if not always of Kabbalah itself, then at least of how it affects this celebrity’s life. The latest bulletins: Madonna has allowed a distance to develop with her longtime best friend, actress Debbi Mazar; and though Madonna will perform on Sundays in the U.K. during her worldwide Re-Invention tour, she’s declining to perform on Friday evenings, in observance of Shabbat.
What does the word “holocaust” mean? And does the meaning change when that first letter is capitalized and it becomes “Holocaust”?
Veteran media critic David Shaw of the Los Angeles Times forced himself to listen to a full cycle of Air America the other day and he decided that the big news is how the liberal talk-radio franchise handles — religion. Well, that and sex. You may have noticed, however, that issues of sexual morality often play a major role in religion news reports these days.
I thought I saw a religion ghost this morning in a New York Times story about God, man and Wal-Mart. Well, maybe God was in there somewhere.
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