Religion Dispatches
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Religion Dispatches is a daily online magazine dedicated to the analysis and understanding of religious forces in the world today, highlighting a diversity of progressive voices and aimed at broadening and advancing the public conversation. More » (Source: Religion Dispatches)
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Kaizar Campwala
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Jun 2, 2008 - 5:08 PM PDT
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Twitter of Faith: Microblogging the Divine
[C]ontemporary believers may reinvent the century-old practice of praying set prayers from the Bible, hymns, and devotionals and matching prayer rhythms with fellow believers ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party
Eyes aimed upward, the loudly faithful Democrats have achieved a lot in four short years. The party launched a Faith in Action initiative and hosted, for the first time, a ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Dispatches from the Borderlands: "They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!"
Despite clear differences of degree and historical context, the cases of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa and the United States demonstrate the urgency of tackling the ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
10 Questions On 'The Fall of the Evangelical Nation'
Journalist Christine Wicker comes from a family of six generations of evangelical faith, and she thinks that the influence of the Religious Right, now on the wane, has been ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance
On may 15, 2008 I posted a short video on Youtube of Pastor John Hagee, assembled with the free iMovie software that came with my three-year-old MacBook [view the video at the ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus
As David Cook prepared for his victory on the latest season of "American Idol," the Republican state chairwoman of Georgia was engaged in paying reverence to a different type ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
God TV: Televangelism 2.0
Welcome to the world of a hip new apostolic movement sweeping the globe with claims of prophecy direct from God, supernatural revivals and healings, and a quest to mold young ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
Israel at 60: Zionism's Fatal Flaw
Perhaps the only fair way to judge any nation is by its own ideals. Israel makes that task easier for us as it was built upon explicit and well-documented ideals. While many ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Does Barack need the Black Church?
Much has been made about the lack of support Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has received from prominent members of the black civil rights establishment. Key ...Posted by Evan Derkacz
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Why Do Christians Worship Greed?
Because Americans live in a kind of perceptual bubble -- a bubble related to but not identical to financial bubbles of recent memory -- we have never seen the full extent of ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism
The world of religious broadcasting cannot be reduced to an arena of hucksters and snake-oil salesmen. Nor should we reduce viewers and participants to passive, uncritical ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
Dispatches from the Workplace: Bishops Lead the Cry to Stop Workplace Raids
On December 12, 2006, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) undertook the largest workplace raids in its history, simultaneously descending upon six ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
In Markets We Trust
While Merrill Lynch is gone forever, that big bronze bull still flares its massive horns down at Bowling Green Park, a few blocks south of Wall St. The sculptor parked his ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
McCain's VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals
From the sound of Palin's acceptance speech, it sounds as though Crouse knows her woman. In a line that evoked George W. Bush's 2000 campaign references to the "power in the ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
Olympic Ritual and Religion, Hosted by a Religion-less State
One of the little remarked aspects of the Modern Olympic Games is its explicit status as a religious revival. The founder, or "renovateur," of the Modern Olympic Games, Pierre ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
Organizing with Obama: Faith in Action
Tthe thought of a President John McCain makes me even more nervous. So I'm prepared to cut Obama some slack on this one. His job is to win the election. He is running far ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
Spiritual McCarthyism and the Catholic Vote
In early April, before the Pennsylvania primary, the Obama campaign appointed a Catholic National Advisory Council--made up of elected officials, scholars, and activists and ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
American Martyrdom
From the Revolutionary War, to the 'evil within' of the Civil War, to today's War on Terror, America has defined itself through identification of evil mortal enemies and by ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
Response to the New York Times on Islam
Edward Luttwak writes in a May 12 New York Times Op-Ed that Sen. Barack Obama is an apostate from Islam and will therefore harm our relations with the Muslim-majority world. ...Posted by Evan Derkacz
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Religion and Politics (17), Media and Politics (5), Obama Administration (4), John McCain (3), Democratic Party (3), Christianity (3), Presidential Election 2008 (3), Middle East (2), Journalism (2), Environment (1), U.S. Economy (1), Immigration (1), Democratic Nomination (1), War in Iraq (1), Israel (1)...
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Sarah Posner (3), Ira Chernus (2), Jonathan L Walton (2), Sara Friedman (1), Ayesha Mattu (1), Jonathan Walton (1), Hussein Rashid (1), Pauline Hope Cheong (1), Kim Bobo (1), Peter Laarman (1), Arri Eisen (1), Joseph Gelfer (1), Brian Kaylor (1), Bill Berkowitz (1), Lou Ruprecht (1)...
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