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Reading Like a Serpent, by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is one of McEntyre’s favorite books....
Paul Ryan, Joe Biden: A tale of two Catholics
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) The 2012 presidential campaign could bear a new subtitle: A Tale of Two Catholics. ...
Motive unknown in shooting at Family Research Council headquarters
c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) A security guard is recovering after he was shot Wednesday morning (Aug....
Amish-Mennonite pastor convicted of abetting kidnapping
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) A Vermont jury found an Amish-Mennonite pastor guilty Tuesday (Aug. 14) of abetting an international kidnapping to keep a young girl from her lesbian parent....
Stimulus needed: How to create jobs
Unemployment is a human crisis. Yet the Obama administration, Congress and the Fed mostly act like it's not their problem.
Key rabbinic vacancy in Jerusalem stays unfilled
Some two years ago a group of journalists was invited to a meeting to discuss the election of a new Ashkenazic chief rabbi of Jerusalem. The post had been vacant for about six years....
Thousands of dreamers
In the last few year, it's been incredible to see undocumented immigrants courageously gathering, organizing, demonstrating for reform, outing themselves as undocumented....
Learning from the Cheesecake Factory
When Mitt Romney and other critics of the Affordable Care Act say that Americans don’t need or want a ...
No, it's not remarkable that Ryan keeps getting reelected by wide margins
I don't usually nitpick weak media coverage of electoral politics, but I take it personally when it's about the place where I grew up....
Thursday digest
New today from the Century: Tom Perrotta's Rapture novel, how to create jobs, more.
The Leftovers, by Tom Perrotta
What if the Rapture really happened? This is the question Tom Perrotta takes up in his novel The Leftovers....
March for Life leader Nellie Gray dead at 88
c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Nellie Gray, the longtime leader of the annual March for Life, which protests the 1973 Roe v....
Muslim woman files suit against Disney over headscarf dispute
c. 2012 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (RNS) The ACLU is suing The Walt Disney Co....
Gospel artist BeBe Winans opens up about Whitney Houston
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) In his new book, "The Whitney I Knew," gospel artist BeBe Winans describes his 28-year friendship with singer Whitney Houston....
Investing in change: Nora Nash, shareholder activist
"We do not shame a company," says Sister Nora Nash of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. "If there is shaming, the company brings that on itself."
Off the shelf
David Barton is what I call a “faux historian.” With only a B.A. in religious education from Oral Roberts University, Barton has written widely on American history, remaking it into his own image. He’s been called upon as an “expert” by the Texas Board of Education, the Republican Party and the likes of right-wing talking head Glenn Beck.
Many conservatives love Barton’s historical revisionism, particularly his arguments that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and that the founders did not share our notions about the separation between church and state. Mike Huckabee said he wished every American had to listen to a simultaneous telecast of David Barton lecturing—even if at gunpoint.
Barton’s latest book, The Jefferson Lies, has drawn criticism from a wider group than the usual liberals and professional historians.
What we talk about when we talk about hate
A few hours ago, a man walked into the Family Research Council's headquarters in DC, where he shot and wounded a security guard before guards and bystanders subdued him....