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In a time where too few journalists try to tackle subjects that are controversial, Lynn Vincent is a bit of a maverick. Lynn is witty, funny, and like it or not, evangelical. And she's co-authoring Sarah Palin's new book.
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Defiant Danish Director Lars von Trier Tackles Antichrist
Questions for Lars von Trier: "You had a a researcher on misogyny in the credits. In the writing or making of this film did you learn something about misogyny in yourself, in your work?"
Justice Scalia's Cross
Justice Scalia takes umbrage at the suggestion that an eight-foot-high Christian cross, erected as a memorial to soldiers killed in military service, violates the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
Conservative Edit of Bible Follows Time Honored Precedents
When conservatives squawk about the Bible having been twisted along the way by political bias, our first response should be -- they're right.
Do You Rock With Jesus?
Trooper, Slightly Imperfect, Pablo, The Dirty Italian, and I were forced to go to a “Transfer Orientation” a day after arriving at SUNY Po...
Do the Rockies Discriminate Against Non-Religious Players?
I wonder about whether the team favors religious players every time I see another Rocky show his faith by crossing himself or pointing upward after a base hit.
How Alan Grayson and Michael Moore Changed the Conversation
Now the conversation we're having is whether the health care system leads to killing people for profit. This is an old trick of lobbyists. You change the conversation to a battle you can win.
A Playlist for Recovering Fundies
Music can be a path out of insularity. Not by itself, of course. But music creates links to a whole wide world of human activities and ideas. For former fundies, it can also help with the healing process. When you've had your child-mind warped by scary songs liked "I Wish We'd all Been Ready" or when you've spent Sunday mornings swaying to "I'm a Pentecostal" or your dulcet tones were trained on "Saved by the Blood," it can help to start feeding your brain some alternatives.
Why Prayer Is Such a Political Football -- The Lord's Prayer Got Lost in the Mix
Time to dust off my Union Theological Seminary creds and weigh in on prayer.
Why Don't We Treat Disease Like We Do Fire?
Have you seen the pictures of the latest fires out in California? Check em out here and here. Firefighters taking the hills, copters and planes droppi...
Michael Moore Asks: What Would Jesus Do?
Roman Catholic Priests are the surprising voices of clarity and conviction in Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story. They aren't ambivalent -- they characterize capitalism as evil.
Obama is Not God: the Projection Principle
There is a limitless supply of videos chronicling the August teabaggery, but this is the one I found most interesting: a woman declaring that "Obama i...
For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning...
You can't call yourself a Capitalist and a Christian because you can't love your money and your neighbor when you are denying your neighbor the ability to see a doctor.
Many Don't Know of World Vision's Evangelical Mission
On October 2nd, The Seattle Times featured an AP article about the recent quake in Sumatra, along with a "how to help" list. At the top of that list was World Vision International.
Christians Vote on the Worst Verse in the Bible
It's a pleasure to land in the virtual company of believers who have no problem saying that sexism and homophobia and slavery and genocide are Bad, no matter how well credentialed their endorsers.
What's Wrong With the New York Film Festival
The NYFF has become the "we know best" festival, full of films that no one -- except the selection committee and the people who actually made the movies --- will ever care about.
An Interview with Author David Comfort on The Rock & Roll Book of the Dead
"There's no simple answer to who John Lennon was. Sure, he was a great leader and a peacenik; on the other hand, he was an incredibly violent, narcissistic guy. That was the other side of him, and people just don't want to hear that."
Try a Little Tenderness: Americans Give During Tough Times
An ear, a meal, a conversation, a strategy, a small but much needed service at the right time--isn't that what we all can give?
Cancer Patients Are Selfish And Un-American (And Jesus & God Think So Too!)
Last time I checked -- this was a proud capitalist country. Founded on the principles of the great Adam Smith. We are all about making money -- not nursing a bunch of malingerers and malcontents.
America Needs A True Revolution Of Values
Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?
Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country
With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.
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