a review of religion and media
We’ve been cleaning up The Revealer‘s archives and it’s amazing what all we’ve found! Take for instance this 2006 piece by Markus Dressler about Peter King’s anti-Islamic bigotry. Continue Reading →
We’ve been cleaning up The Revealer‘s archives and it’s amazing what all we’ve found! Take for instance this 2006 piece by Markus Dressler about Peter King’s anti-Islamic bigotry. Continue Reading →
The Forward‘s Nathan Guttman writes that we’ve heard little from Jewish organizations about how to manage the U.S. budget shortfall. He quotes Mark Pelavin, associate director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism: “I would like to see more of an AIPAC-like effort, with key people and contacts across the nation putting more pressure on Democrats and Republicans,” said William Rapfogel, executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. He added that with “real commitment from the national leadership, you can mobilize the community.” Continue Reading →
The Forward‘s Nathan Guttman writes that we’ve heard little from Jewish organizations about how to manage the U.S. budget shortfall. He quotes Mark Pelavin, associate director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism: “I would like to see more of an AIPAC-like effort, with key people and contacts across the nation putting more pressure on Democrats and Republicans,” said William Rapfogel, executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. He added that with “real commitment from the national leadership, you can mobilize the community.” Continue Reading →
The Forward‘s Nathan Guttman writes that we’ve heard little from Jewish organizations about how to manage the U.S. budget shortfall. He quotes Mark Pelavin, associate director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism: “I would like to see more of an AIPAC-like effort, with key people and contacts across the nation putting more pressure on Democrats and Republicans,” said William Rapfogel, executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. He added that with “real commitment from the national leadership, you can mobilize the community.” Continue Reading →
Abby Ohlheiser: Of Gods and Men (122 minutes, 2010), a new film by Xavier Beauvois, opened last Friday in Los Angeles and New York (at Sunshine, show times are here) after a brief run at the New York Film Festival in the fall. Winner of the second-place prize at last year’s Canne Film Festival, it is brilliant, in the way that Dreyer’s Passion of Joan of Arc is brilliant. Continue Reading →
by Becky Garrison
Rob Bell, a bestselling Christian author and founder of Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids became a top trend on Twitter last week after Justin Taylor posted a blog article titled “Rob Bell: Universalist?” Taylor, vice president at Crossways International, a Christian educational non-profit, based his commentary on select chapters of Bell’s forthcoming book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived that were sent to him and on a promotional video produced to accompany this book’s release on March 29th. Those who picked up on Taylors’ post included bestselling author and Reformed pastor John Piper, who tweeted a succinct “Farewell, Rob Bell.”
The bulk of those generating the ensuing online buzz appear to have reached their conclusions regarding Bell’s book not based on the book itself, which few have actually had the chance to read, but on a position they’ve already taken in the ongoing battles between reformed and progressive (aka emergent) evangelicals. Bell’s detractors claim that he’s abandoned “biblical Christianity” and the belief that only Christians can enter heaven. Instead, he’s charged with adopting universalism, a concept which states that everyone will eventually be saved. In other words, critics claim, what’s at stake is nothing short of Bell’s soul and those of his followers and readers. Continue Reading →
John Dillingham at The Scoop writes about a recent NPR report that exposes secretive Communications Management Units — prisons in all but name — where two-thirds of the inmates are Muslim. Continue Reading →
Of the seven recipients of the 2011 Knight Luce Fellowship for Reporting on Global Religion, two have spent time at The Revealer! Kathryn Joyce, the founding managing editor, and Nicole Greenfield, have both graced our pages and shaped who we are and what we do. Here’s what the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the administrator of the award, has to say about their winning projects:
This week the Rev. Peter J. Gomes died. He was 68. In him were often gracefully reconciled disparate identities: a black man, a Baptist, a Harvard minister, a Republican, and a gay man out before out was conservative cool. We’ve rounded up some links for those of you trying to make sense of a complicated man. Continue Reading →