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Twitter of Faith: Microblogging the Divine
Religion Dispatches - by Pauline Hope Cheong - Mar. 12, 2009 (Special Report)
[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 ...
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Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party
Religion Dispatches - by Sarah Posner - Dec. 15, 2008 (Special Report)
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 ...
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Dispatches from the Borderlands: "They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!"
Religion Dispatches - by Manuel A. Vasquez - Oct. 13, 2008 (Opinion)
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 ...
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10 Questions On 'The Fall of the Evangelical Nation'
Religion Dispatches - by Christine Wicker - Jun. 16, 2008 (Interview)
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 ...
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A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance
Religion Dispatches - by Bruce Wilson - Jun. 2, 2008 (Special Report)
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 ...
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American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus
Religion Dispatches - by Brian Kaylor - Jun. 2, 2008 (Opinion)
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 ...
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God TV: Televangelism 2.0
Religion Dispatches - by Sarah Posner - May. 20, 2008 (News Report)
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 ...
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Israel at 60: Zionism's Fatal Flaw
Religion Dispatches - by Ira Chernus - May. 14, 2008 (Opinion)
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 ...
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Does Barack need the Black Church?
Religion Dispatches - by Jonathan L. Walton - Feb. 14, 2008 (News Analysis)
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 ...
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Why Do Christians Worship Greed?
AlterNet, Religion Dispatches - by Peter Laarman - May. 21, 2009 (Opinion)
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 ...
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Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism
Religion Dispatches - by Jonathan Walton - Feb. 23, 2009 (Interview)
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 ...
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Dispatches from the Workplace: Bishops Lead the Cry to Stop Workplace Raids
Religion Dispatches - by Kim Bobo - Oct. 23, 2008 (Special Report)
On December 12, 2006, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) undertook the largest workplace raids in its history, simultaneously descending upon six ...
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In Markets We Trust
Religion Dispatches - by Peter Laarman - Oct. 2, 2008 (News Analysis)
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 ...
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McCain's VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals
Religion Dispatches - by Kathryn Joyce - Sep. 2, 2008 (Special Report)
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 ...
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Olympic Ritual and Religion, Hosted by a Religion-less State
Religion Dispatches - by Lou Ruprecht - Aug. 11, 2008 (Opinion)
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 ...
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Organizing with Obama: Faith in Action
Religion Dispatches - by Ira Chernus - Jul. 9, 2008 (News Analysis)
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 ...
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Spiritual McCarthyism and the Catholic Vote
Religion Dispatches - by Bill Berkowitz - Jun. 30, 2008 (News Analysis)
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 ...
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American Martyrdom
Religion Dispatches - by Gary Laderman - May. 25, 2008 (Special Report)
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 ...
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Response to the New York Times on Islam
Religion Dispatches - by Hussein Rashid - May. 14, 2008 (News Analysis)
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. ...
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