Dan Harris investigates as President Obama’s religion is debated in election.
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Christian by Choice: How Do We Choose Religion?
At a campaign stop in Albuquerque, the president responds to a question about his faith by saying ‘the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.’ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Obama said Tuesday that he is a “Christian by choice” and that his decision was influenced by gospel teachings about salvation and the importance of loving one another.
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Obama says he’s Christian ‘by choice’
The faithful were not as knowledgeable about different religions in survey.
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Atheists and Agnostics Score Best in Religion Poll
“I’m under attack.” This was the summation of Bishop Eddie Long’s long-awaited and legally approved response from the much ballyhooed pulpit of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. As if the swolled Bishop had a kingdom resting atop Stone Mountain in Georgia, he gives yet another aged rally cry used from scandalous preachers in the past.
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Should Bishop Eddie Long take authority or take a long vacation?
I am so excited to announce that on November 5th 2010, I will be presenting at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. Creating Resistance: Using the Arts in Challenging Racial Ideologies A Roundtable Discussion Moderated by Laura Kina with Alejandro T. Acierto , Maya Escobar , Tina Ramirez, and Jonathan Reinert DePaul University Student Center | 11/5/2010 | 10:15 am CONFERENCE IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC CLICK HERE TO REGISTER This roundtable focuses on the use of the arts as a strategy to discuss, challenge, and confront ideologies of race and mixed-heritage identities
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Creating Resistance: Using the Arts in Challenging Racial Ideologies
Come join me at the 1st annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies , at DePaul University in Chicago, November 5-6, 2010. The CMRS conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines nationwide. Recognizing that the diverse disciplines that have nurtured Mixed Race Studies have reached a watershed moment, the 2010 CMRS conference is devoted to the general theme “Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies.” Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) is the transracial, transdisciplinary, and transnational critical analysis of the institutionalization of social, cultural, and political orders based on dominant conceptions of race
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Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies
The recent scare over a missing Palmdale church group reflects the continuing belief in the end times, especially amid feelings of desperation. Religious leaders prophesying a date for the apocalypse have always faced a unique challenge to their credibility: Everyone who’s tried that before has turned out to be wrong
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Failure doesn’t stop predictions of the apocalypse
(Oh, how I wish I had more time in my day to blog about breaking news like this…) For years in the “Chitlin’ Circuit”, wayfaring Christian soldiers have heard the eerie whispers of Bishop Eddie Long’s desire to create his own army that marched under a different flag – a rainbow one that wisped gently
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Eddie Long Confirms for New Birth an Old Rumor – Sexual Abuse
Prompted by a Google Alert and a recommendation from my friend Carrie Ferguson Weir, I decided it was time for me to set up shop on Tumblr . below are some of my favorite Tumbls: Darja Bajagić Andria Morales In addition to my own Tumblr blog , I also started a Frida Kahlo FANATIC blog Obsessed with Frida Kahlo * . some of my Frida Tumbls: Yasumasa Morimura Jason D’Aquino * Obsessed with Frida Kahlo , is a project I initiated in 2007 with Mexican artist Brenda Hernandez
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In this month’s ubiquitous and divine hallucinogenic moment in time, we have our Savior dying for another cause – the cost of terrestrial phone usage. I know there are much bigger fish to fry, such as the price of gas and just what is “The Event”, it seems people have been praying to the heavenlies
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God Sighting of the Month: Jesus is Calling