21 June 2004 Daily Links Part Deux

June 21, 2004
The ultimate computation? Skeptic publisher Michael Shermer considers the latest figures on the probability of God’s existence (67 percent), and asks: “If faith...

Summer Solstice Links

June 21, 2004
The Holly King, God of the Waning Year, encounters the Oak King and usurps the reign of the year....

21 June 2004 Daily Links

June 21, 2004
Dallas Morning News scoop: “A prominent candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II recently sheltered a priest who is an...

Niall Ferguson's Modern-Day "White Man's Burden"

June 21, 2004
Holly Berman diagnoses a dangerous case of double dipping: Bestselling historian Niall Ferguson regurgitates his latest Foreign Policy “warning” for the editorial page of The...

How to Invoke God's Mercy

June 21, 2004
Ever the multi-tasker, God has taken up the cause of the anti-EU UK Independence Party. At least according to...

19 June 2004 Daily Links

June 19, 2004
The Islamist website that last Wednesday posted threats to kill American hostage Paul Johnson yesterday posted photographs of his...

18 June 2004 Daily Links

June 18, 2004
In The Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy tallies the influence religion has on “the two greatest democracies on this planet,” squaring the Pledge...

17 June 2004 Daily Links

June 17, 2004
17 June 2004 Basava Premanand, “India’s leading guru-buster” and “scourge of all miracle-makers,” has been burgled again, the BBC’s Tanya Datta reports....
Feature

Lost Boys in 7th Heaven

June 17, 2004
Genocide on the small screen: Sudan as “Advo-tainment.” By Leshu Torchin Several weeks ago one of the few evangelical...

16 June 2004 Daily Links

June 16, 2004
Jim Smith of the Philadelphia Daily News reports: Federal prosecutors of Clayton Lee Waagner are demanding a life sentence for the “war...

Bloomsday Special: WWJJD?

June 16, 2004
–That was a good answer our friend made to the canon. What? said Mr. Dedalus. –I didn’t think he...
Feature

The Catholic Divide?

June 15, 2004
Culture warriors try again with the “Catholic Divide.” By Kathryn Joyce This week, The New York Times’s John Tierney dispensed a reassuring...

15 June 2004 Daily Links

June 15, 2004
A bewildering report from the Norwich Bulletin describes the eviction of the God’s House group from the Moosup Manor housing complex....

14 June 2004 Daily Links

June 14, 2004
Flag Day special: Supreme Court rules that God is good, at least as far as the Pledge is concerned. Well, not...

"My God is Bigger Than Your God"

June 14, 2004
The Church of Chuck Norris: Prestonwood Baptist, in Plano, Texas (a Dallas suburb), that is. But Norris isn’t what puts...

Don't Mess With Texas

June 14, 2004
Washington Times: “The Texas Republican Party plank says, ‘Christian Nation — The Republican Party of Texas affirms that the...

13 June 2004 Daily Links

June 13, 2004
12:21 pm: “‘I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God...

Fashionable Madmen

June 10, 2004
“That the ethic of conscience is intrinsically insidious seems scarcely a revelatory point, but it is one raised with...

Save This

June 10, 2004
What’s the difference between born-again and bad-to-the-bone? Saved! doesn’t answer and the press doesn’t care. By Patton Dodd Evangelicals on film...

10 June 2004 Daily Links

June 10, 2004
8:44 pm: One of the bloggers at Not Perfection puts the events of the week in perspective. “I feel bad about Ronald...

09 June 2004 Daily Links

June 9, 2004
10:50 am: A story by Deb McCown in The Washington Times illustrates a potential rift in the alleged Republican religion lock. What matters more to...

08 June 2004 Daily Links

June 8, 2004
8:19 pm: From the leader of a land just like America, but with even more beer: “Let me say that...

07 June 2004 Daily Links

June 7, 2004
9:50 pm: “They almost thought I was one of them or something,” said Macaulay Culkin of the young Christians...

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