Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. November 3, 2009. The most aggressive members of the "New Atheism" movement have quite a bit in common with religious extremists like Pat Robertson and Ted Haggard.
Angelia Wilson, Comment Is Free. October 5, 2009. Christian conservatives support health care co-operatives -- but only for other Christians. Sounds like something Jesus would approve of.
Natasha Chart, Open Left AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. September 30, 2009. Our rights and health are often the first bone offered up on the altar of bipartisan consensus.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 14, 2009. A film about Charles Darwin that is being shown throughout the world can't find a U.S. distributor.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 2, 2009. If you have to leave Fido behind, wouldn't you like to know he's in the care of a loving atheist?
Brook Wilensky-Lanford, The Faster Times. August 31, 2009. Creationist theme parks are filled with paleontological wonders. How do Christian fundamentalists reconcile creatures millions of years old with their Young Earth ideas?
Kathryn Joyce, The Nation. August 29, 2009. Many Christian adoption agencies are far more concerned with artificially producing "orphans" for Christian parents to adopt, than helping birth parents care for wanted children.
J. Terry Todd, Religion Dispatches. August 17, 2009. Promise Keepers has repackaged its muscular Christianity and evangelical nationalism for a post-9/11 world.
Paul Gorrell, Religion Dispatches. August 14, 2009. The classic protest musical, Hair, is back to tackle what many consider to be the biggest civil rights issue of our era: marriage equality.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. July 11, 2009. The latest missive from Peretz argues "Christian Believers Would Be Excluded From Government If The Left Liberals Had Their Way." Really?
Joseph Laycock, Religion Dispatches. July 6, 2009. Conspiracy theorists and fringe Christians think the mysterious Georgia stones signal the coming of a "New World Order."
David Rosen, CounterPunch. June 29, 2009. Last week, Gov. Mark Sanford participated in one of the oldest social rituals in American history: public shaming of the moral hypocrite.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. June 18, 2009. The shock jock is worried that the "Christian heterosexual married male" is under attack.
Mustang Bobby, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. June 16, 2009. These folks have a lot to learn about civil liberties, not to mention a lot about Christianity, too.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. May 28, 2009. Noted biblical scholars Neil Cavuto and Pat Robertson settle an eternal theological question: WWJD about the economy?
Peter Laarman, Religion Dispatches. May 21, 2009. Only in America can one find significant numbers of Christians who argue that unfettered capitalism represents God's Plan for human thriving.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 20, 2008. A look at religion and politics, with a faithful eye on what the religious right has been up to this week.
General JC Christian, Jesus' General AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 27, 2008. "God Hates You" signs countered with "Jesus Loves Everyone" signs. "Fags are Beasts" countered with "Fags are Sexy Beasts."
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. August 13, 2008. Stuart Shepard's video asked everyone to pray for God to smite Denver with "abundant rain, torrential rain ... flood-advisory rain."
Amy Williams, Amy DePaul, AlterNet. August 9, 2008. Advocates of assisted marriage say it maintains tradition. Critics point to gender inequities and an unhealthy preoccupation with ethnic purity.
