Obama '12: Head Scarves in the Rear View Mirror
This extended digression into the slime of Campaign '08 is inspired by the sight of President Obama warmly shaking the hands of a Muslim woman at the University of Colorado.
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Baby Bella and the Last Act of Santorum ’12
It seems any ability to tease out the emotional dynamics from the family's religious faith from hard (and bleak) political calculations in the ultimate decision is really not possible.
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St. Tebow and the Sign of the Crossbars
Sports in America, cherished as it is on Sundays throughout the year, is more religion in this country than religion itself.
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Some Good Friday Photos That Caught Our Eye
Should have figured it was an American pilgrim when I saw that belly.
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Putting the Atheist Point A-Cross
Looking at photos of the Reason Rally, I’m struck by how many ralliers depend on religious iconography to visually express their atheism.
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Santorums Watch: Pride Cometh *Along With* the Fall?
Watching the Santorum family react to the Illinois results (among others), you start to wonder how much the tribe is really hiding behind a populist and genial face most of the time.
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Alabama, the "Great Immigration Migration" and the Spirit of GOP Primary Day
Thinking of HB56 and Santorum's pervasive religious zeal, the question that seems to need asking is: what would Jesus do?
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The Santorum Ministry
I'm wondering how much Santorum's ever more narrow, fundamentalist message is a clever strategy to rally America's Christian conservatives, or he's ultimately more about divinity than delegates.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Prayerful Bachmann Flaunts Separation of Church and State
In reading the news accounts, and then examining Brendan's photos, it seems that policy, advocacy, testimony and prayer is now all simmering in the same soup.
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Crossing the Line: Perry/Jesus 2012
Governor Perry crosses the line in evoking Jesus Christ and Christian prayer as a vehicle for "healing" unemployment at Texas "prayer rally."
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The Missionary
I was going to juxtapose this photo with a pic from the GOP debate in Iowa last night, but the forgettable (and forgettably early) scene wouldn't really have held up.
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Mitt on the Great White Way
Here's a few points deconstructing the Newsweek Mitt Mormon cover. (Or, a few points on Newsweek's Mitt Mormon destruction cover.)
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Juxtaposition of the Day: Palin's (Not So) Inner Jew
Palin's big-time religious shape shifting.
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France's Niqab Ban: Tricolor Face of the New Feminism
The French law states that women who cover in public are subject to a fine and also must enroll in a “citizenship course,” however, the young woman in this picture seems to understand citizenship better than the Sarkozy administration.
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Terry Jones: But Beyond Mel
After this weekend's carnage, how much are we supposed to write Jones off as an unbalanced Braveheart fanatic and how much --given the rest of the picture-- much are we supposed to reflect on his mood and nature?
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