The Young are the Restless: Jennifer Pae [This is the first installment in a three part series about young activists facing a troubling economy.] By Adam Raphael CampusProgress.org June 4, 2009 Jennifer Pae speaking at the 2006 Campus Progress National Conference. (Photo: Campus Progress) A 2005 graduate of the University of California, San Diego, Jennifer Pae understands first-hand the importance of making higher education more affordable
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Young and Restless: Three Windows with a View of Youth in a Crisis Economy
After all the controversy, ABC News’ prime-time town-hall-style interview with the president, Questions for the President: Prescription for America , put up so-so ratings on Wednesday night. At the 10 p.m. hour, the special, moderated by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson, attracted 4.7 million viewers. That’s slighly more than half the audience that tuned in earlier this month to watch NBC News’ …
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ABC News’ Prime-Time Obama Special Attracts 4.7 Million Viewers (The New York Observer)
Philadelphia Archdiocese to shutter Mary Immaculate Center retreat house By Daniel Patrick Sheehan OF THE MORNING CALL June 25, 2009 The Mary Immaculate Center in Lehigh Township, a spiritual retreat house owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, has become too costly to maintain in the bad economy and will be closed, officials said. The center, which features Romanesque architecture and has many antiquities among its holdings, sits on a 460-acre tract at the highest point of the
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Mary Immaculate Center to close
Passing away at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica earlier today, Farrah Fawcett is receiving an outpouring of kind words from family, friends and fans – who’ve already amassed a pile of flowers and trinkets at her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Speaking with Us magazine, Farrah’s longtime partner Ryan O’Neal said, “Although this is an extremely difficult time for her family and friends, we take comfort in the beautiful times that we shared with Farrah over the years and the knowledg
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Family, Friends and Fans Remember Farrah Fawcett
Life cannot be figured out. It cannot be tested by men in white coats with goggles and fuming glass containers who say that more of Vitamin C will keep you from ever getting sick and switch opinions between “Diet Coke is better than Coca Cola Classic” and “Diet Coke will kill you.” It cannot be predicted by looking at the stars, aligning constellations with birthdays, and proclaiming that on the 5th Scorpios will be good in bed on the 24th Leos shouldn’t make any big purchases, and that Taurus w
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Life in Neverland (January)
Another perfect example of religion as a cover for insanity and criminal behavior. Read this article and tell me that, had the mother’s excuse been “I’m performing a ritual in the name of the High Folderol,” or “Instead of taking him to a doctor, I just thought this was the rational thing to do,” she wouldn’t be sitting in jail right now.Instead, this judge chickens out because he doesn’t want to step on the toes of Gwinnett Countians who believe in God, Satan and demon possession. His boy nee
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Exorcist/child-abuser scot-free in GA
Regular readers of this weblog know that that your GetReligionistas are fans of verbatim question-and-answer interviews, especially when they focus on religious (and political) leaders whose views have previously been crunched down into soundbites and factoids. Well, the Washington Post team that does the God and Government site offered us a classic example the other day of how to use this tool.
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Focus on the president’s family
Now that I’ve got my research Bible with 26 translations via different publishers,editors, and translators I there’s been something of a change in Christian rhetoric. They’re saying its not fair for me debate within answers as to meanings in the many versions of the Bible. Here a couple excerpts
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Is it right to use mistranslations and structural changes in Bibles for propaganda and proselytizing?
If you can believe it, Shaquille O’Neal, the famous NBA basketball star, learned he had been traded from the Phoenix Suns to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Twitter. Not only is the trade headline news, the ignominious way he found out is indicative of the use and abuse of the infamous social network. “U CLEVELAND
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Twitter delivers the news to Shaq, he’s been traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers (Geek.com)
There are some very interesting posts at Stand Firm and Titus 1:9 today about a letter written by Diocese of South Carolina Bishop Mark Lawrence to his clergy. In this letter, Bishop Lawrence advises that he and Kendall Harmon have adopted a very realistic attitude toward the upcoming TEO General Convention: In numerous conversations, Kendall and I have felt that the strategizing and networking to pass or defeat resolutions, for most of us in the conservative or reasserting cause, is no lon
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Bishop Lawrence Letter to Dio SC