The Last Twentieth Century Book Club: The Making of a Moonie
This is the final installment of “The Last Twentieth Century Book Club,” Don Jolly‘s monthly column exploring religious ephemera. Continue Reading →
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The latest issue of Cultural Anthropology features an article by Revealer writer Yasmin Moll (read the entire issue here) titled, “Building the New Egypt: Islamic Televangelists, Revolutionary Ethics, and ‘Productive’ Citizenship.” (You can read Yasmin’s article and the entire issue here. You can read Yasmin’s articles for The Revealer here.) Continue Reading →
FOR SALE: The Washington Times, $35 Million
Rev. Sun Myung Moon‘s Unification Church has kept the in-the-red paper afloat by providing an annual funding subsidy, but no longer. Both staff and basic services at the paper have been drastically cut. Writes The Washington Post:
“The feeling everyone feels is that it’s a totally rudderless ship,” said Julia Duin, the paper’s longtime religion reporter. “Nobody knows who’s running it. Is it the board of directors? We don’t know. There was a three-foot-long black snake in the main conference room the other day. We have snakes in the newsroom — the real live variety, at least. One of the security people gallantly removed it.”