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Atheism’s Unholy Trinity

Last spring, Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, flew to California… more

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Holy Toyland

The mega toy retailer, Wal-Mart- is now selling Biblical toys like the talking Jesus

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The Crime Against Debbie Almontaser

Even Bloomberg now admits that the victim of the New York "Intifada" t-shirt hysteria is no terrorist

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God--And Progressives--Save This Honorable Court!

The Supreme Court's recent decisions further underscore the dire need to beat back the right's threats to basic fairness.

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These Guns for Hire

Blackwater unites conservative Catholics, evangelicals and neoconservatives to fight a theoconservative holy war

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Rebelde for the Cause

United Farm Worker pioneer leads immigrant rights struggle

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A Pain, and Proud of It

Frances Kissling retires after 25 years at CFFC

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Preaching Revolution

A new evangelical movement offers lessons for the left

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The Godless Fundamentalist

In The Root of All Evil, biologist Richard Dawkins reveals his own lust for certainty

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All Praises to the Pause

Alice Walker wants us to enjoy "the pause" - the moment when something major is accomplished and Wisdom requires us to stop and reflect.

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Face-to-Face With the Fundamentalist Base

Christian evangelicals fight culture war to save America.

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The Role of the Religious Right in the Foley Affair

The Religious Right will condemn others, but never holds themselves accountable.

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Cola Wars in Mexico

Tzotzil Indians in Mexico know the dangers of globalization and soda pop.

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Jesus Is Tragic

The movie Jesus Camp by Heidi Ewing and Cahel Grady exposes the terrifying power the Christian Right has to indoctrinate and manipulate children.

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The Neocons Lexicon

Republican term "Islamofacism" conflates the war on terro as a battle between the Enlightenment and Theocracy.

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Examining Irans ties to Hezbollah

Just how much influence does the Islamic Republic wield over Hezbollah?

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Cmon, Get Happy

Being happy has become commercial, individualized, and barbaric.

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Death of a Tokers Utopia

Michigan's Raindbow Farm a remnant of Hippie Culture

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The Persecution of the American Taliban?

John Walker Lindh was misunderstood and mislabeled as an "American Taliban."

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Two Faces of GOP Hate

Both fringe and first-tier Republican candidates are bashing gays and immigrants

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Saving Secular Society

Whenever I talk about the growing power of the evangelical right with friends, they always ask the same… more

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Organizing the Religious Left

Berkeley polymath Rabbi Michael Lerner returns with his latest book, The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our… more

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Islam vs. the West: Clashing Sensibilities

Were it plausible, I would suggest that al Qaeda and American neo-conservatives planted the cartoons published last fall… more

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Cult of Character

How the 'secular' Character Training Institute is working to build evangelist Bill Gothard's vision of a First-Century Kingdom of God--one city, one state, one school board, one police force and one mind at a time.

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The Georgia Preach

Jimmy Carter's new book about fundamentalism is long on diagnosis, but thin on remedies

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Islam Needs Radicals

George W. Bush. Tony Blair. Silvio Berlusconi. Jacques Chirac. Along with most every Western leader, pundit and policymaker,… more

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A Fundamental History Lesson

The rise of National Socialism proved politics and religion don't mix

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Reckoning with the God Squad

Fundamentalist bullies cannot be appeased. They must be confronted.

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Ready for Dialogue

"I'm afraid that if I watch a lot of TV, I will start to hate myself as an… more

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Jesus, Is This News?

No matter how much columnists and media critics bemoan the sorry state of American journalism, no matter how… more

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The Popes Failures

Pope John Paul II’s reaction to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is well known. Immediately after… more

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It’s Raining Amendment

The ugly clouds had gathered so long on the horizon that the first drop was a relief. Bush’s… more

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Passion: Regular or Decaf?

Those who virulently criticized Mel Gibson’s The Passion even before its release seem unassailable: Are they not justified… more

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