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Red and blue evangelism: Left Behind vs. Will & Grace?

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Sorry to be getting to this subject a few days late. I am teaching in Washington, D.C., for the next month or so and it has taken some time (technologically speaking) to get settled in. But I wanted to flash back to Doug’s post about the Newsweek cover story on the “Left Behind” guys (NASCAR team and all).


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The Village Voice goes apocalyptic

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The Village Voice raises some fair questions about why officials from the Bush administration are discussing foreign policy with what the Voice calls “apocalyptic Christians,” but it could do a better job of understanding basic theological categories. Reporter Rick Perlstein writes in an urgent tone about the Apostolic Congress, which represents members of the United Pentecostal Church. (R.G. Upton, pictured with the Bushes and his wife, leads the Washington lobby.)


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Baby, baby: The New York Times faces a ghost in the stylebook

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One rarely gets to see a religion ghost hiding in the details of a newspaper’s all-powerful manual of language, style and grammar. But there one was, drifting between the lines of a New York Times article on the hot new shops that, for a few hundred dollars, allow a woman to buy sepia-toned ultrasound digital prints of her unborn child to give to family members and friends — by hand or email.


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Newsweek confronts galloping literalism

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Newsweek‘s cover package on “The New Prophets of Revelation” rings true, for the most part, to readers familiar with the work and personalities of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Indeed, much of the fun in David Gates’ reporting is in the contrasts between the pushy, polyester-clad LaHaye and the self-deprecating, jeans-favoring Jenkins.


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