Events, Updates & Discussion
Rave Review For NYC Premiere
Joe and Laura had an interview in NYC with TrustMovies on the eve of the 8/6/09 premiere of “What’s The Matter With Kansas” at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Religious groups smack the Family Research Council over abortion
Religious groups are accusing the Family Research Council (FRC) of being “misleading” in its attacks on health care reform. That’s nice-guy speak for saying the FRC is lying through its teeth. (…)
New York Premiere coming up – Thursday, Aug 6, 2009
We’re busy packing our bags for a visit to New York City to have our first major public screening of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on Thursday, August 6, 2009. The screening is part of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Independents Night series. (…)
Abortion schisms
Now that Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH) has introduced a bill promoting contraception to reduce the need for abortion, he has been disowned by much of the pro-life movement. According to Cristina Page at the Huffington Post, not a single pro-life group in America supports contraception — and not a single such organization signed onto the legislation. A number of pro-life leaders have signed on, including Dr. (…)
Common ground on abortion?
One of the big news items in the faith/politics world over the last week has been an abortion-related bill proposed by Reps. (…)
Confessions of Tiller’s murderer
Scott Roeder, the man accused of shooting Dr. (…)
NY Times has more detail on Tiller and his murder
The New York Times today published a lengthy and detailed story about Dr. (…)
Obama = Antichrist? Sutton responds.
The other day I posted a critique of Matthew Avery Sutton’s claim that “the vast majority of American evangelicals” are radical fundamentalists who are soon going to conclude that President Obama is the Antichrist. My critique came in the form of a question: Where’s the evidence? Although it’s fun and easy to pick on evangelicals, at least in some quarters, an argument of this kind should feature at least a few facts if it’s to be taken seriously. (…)
“A leaderless army”
The Seattle Times suggests the religious right has gone from 60 to zero in five years:
In 2004, conservative evangelical leaders in Washington state were in full political force. (…)
Obama’s fruitless evangelical outreach?
Over at Religion Dispatches, Matthew Avery Sutton argues that President Obama’s entreaties to evangelicals will inevitably fall flat because the conservative Christian movement is “obsessed with the apocalypse” and bound to think Obama is the Antichrist. (…)