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Twitter of Faith: Microblogging the Divine

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Pauline Hope Cheong - Mar. 12 (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 at designated times of the day. This also brings to mind the Pentecostal religious practice of prayer chains, where lay followers are charged to pray on particular topics, during particular hours, and for the same length of time.

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Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Religion Dispatches - By Sarah Posner - Dec. 15 (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 faith caucus at its convention. Under the leadership of then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic caucus organized a Democratic Faith Working Group, which meets regularly with religious constituencies to craft policy.

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Dispatches from the Borderlands: "They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!"

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Manuel A. Vasquez - Oct. 13 (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 issue of unauthorized immigration. Particularly in this climate of economic uncertainty, failure to do so only heightens the potential for destructive episodes of violence that may result in the loss of human life and tear the democratic fiber of our society. There may be those who think that anti-immigrant violence of the scale recently seen in South Africa is not possible in America. However, the widespread violence perpetrated at the end of the 19th century against Chinese immigrants as reaction to the "yellow peril" and the Zoot Suit riots in the early 1940s give us plenty of reasons not to be overly complacent.

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10 Questions On 'The Fall of the Evangelical Nation'

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Christine Wicker - Jun. 16 (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 disastrous for American Christianity...

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A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Bruce Wilson - Jun. 02 (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 end of this article--ed.]. In just a few days Americans began to absorb the reality that Republican presidential candidate John McCain had sought and accepted an endorsement from a religious leader who'd asserted a divine mandate for the Holocaust and claimed that Jews themselves were responsible for the tragedy, cursed by God for the ancient Hebrew worship of idols. I hardly expected the product to go "viral" and so to possibly alter the dynamics of an American presidential election.

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American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Brian Kaylor - Jun. 02 (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 of American idol. In a bizarre moment in the world of mixing religion and politics, Sue Everhart compared Republican presidential candidate John McCain to Jesus and America to God...

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God TV: Televangelism 2.0

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Sarah Posner - May. 20 (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 people for God's kingdom by enforced sexual purity, 24/7 prayer, repentance, and fasting...

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Israel at 60: Zionism's Fatal Flaw

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Ira Chernus - May. 14 (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 nations have grown up organically, or even accidentally, Israel was a conscious project, a product of half a century of very intentional thinking and planning. Israel's elderly founding fathers had been Zionists since the movement's beginning. They imbibed their ideals from the movement's founders, whose ideals were set forth at great length--there is no mystery about what the Jewish state was meant to achieve and signify.

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Does Barack need the Black Church?

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Religion Dispatches - By Jonathan L. Walton - Feb. 14 (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 figures have demonstrated ambivalence toward Obama's candidacy at best and an aversion to the Illinois Senator at worst...

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