Paul Harvey Ever wondered about the philosophy and business model of the spirituality catch-all website Belief.net. And who exactly owned it anyway? Yeah, neither did I
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Selling God on the Net: Beliefnet’s Affinity Group
Paul Harvey This won’t be shocking news to a lot of readers of this blog, but an interesting column nonetheless: Charles Blow, ” Rise of the Religious Left ,” in yesterday’s NY Times . He begins: Which political party’s members are most likely to believe that Jesus will definitely return to earth before midcentury
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Rise of the Socially Conservative Religious Left
> Paul Harvey Today I’m stealing a post from John Fea, who blogs briefly on the new issue of Books & Culture ( and while we’re on the subject, here is a podcast previewing the issue): It is always an exciting day when the new issue of Books and Culture arrives. The July/August issue showed up in my mailbox today. It includes reviews by Bruce Kuklick, Paul Harvey, Susan Wise Bauer, Peter Colcanis, Alan Jacobs, and Karl E
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Tragedy, Farce, and Theme Park
Randall Stephens In honor of the weekend’s rockets red glare and wild competitive eating contests, I post here a couple of primary source items related to the National Reform Association.
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This Land is Our Land: Surprising or Otherwise Interesting Primary Sources, Part VIII, Fourth of July Edition
I’m pleased today to guest post another contribution from Benjamin Park , a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh who normally blogs at Juvenile Instructor. Ben’s post concerns material he had researched for his master’s thesis, about reactions/responses to Thomas Paine from The Age of Reason to Christopher Hitchens to the Tea Party Movement
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The Strange Career of Thomas Paine
Randall Stephens I crosspost here part of a piece I did for HNN . “I don’t believe in change over time.” I wish Glenn Beck would come out and say just that. I’ve watched quite a few of Beck’s 5:00 p.m.
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HNN Post: Past is No Foreign Country
Randall Stephens I’ve been slogging through a chapter that deals with the evolution of the family values agenda, Christian psychology, and evangelical child rearing. It’s always harder when one moves further up in time.
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Make the Devil Mad, Go to Bob Jones U.
It seems the governors of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and the lieutenant governor of Florida (where is Gov. Charlie Crist?) have issued a proclamation asking for their citizens to pray for a solution to stop the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and for the recovery of affected industries.
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Gulf Governors Ask for Divine Help
What is it with the Brits hushing up any public declaration of faith? The World Cup is underway, of course, and English football (that’s soccer to us American types) star Wayne Rooney was asked at a news conference about why he wears a cross and rosary beads off the field, er, pitch.
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No Religion Please, We’re British
Kelly Baker These days, my brain alternates between at least two or three scholarly things/themes: the 1920s Klan and the apocalypse (and often vampires and religious intolerance, but that is for another day). The first, of course, is quite obvious. I am counting down the days until my manuscript is tied in a bow and shipped to my publisher.
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Is Anything Not a Sign of the Apocalypse?