Welcome to the Convo, where ACG Blog contributors get together for discussion and analysis. Today’s topic is last night’s episode of “Glee,” “Grilled Cheesus.” ●○●○●○● After the previous two episodes’ twin mediocrity, “Glee” last night was a breath of fresh air and reestablished not only the breadth of talent on the cast but also how [...]
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The Convo: Glee: “Grilled Cheesus”
Posted in Religion, Television, tagged Chris Colfer, Glee, Gleecap, Religion, The Convo on October 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t Know Much About Religion
Posted in Religion, tagged Christianity, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Religious Knowledge, Survey Says on September 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life finds that atheists and agnostics have the greatest religious knowledge, answering on average 20.9 of 32 questions correctly. The overall average was 16 of the 32 correct, a 50 percent pass rate. Hispanic Catholics did the worst, getting just 11.6 correct [...]
Opposition to Islam and the Paradox of ‘Hallowed Ground’
Posted in Politics, Religion, tagged Hallowed Ground, Islam, Park51 on September 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Much of the debate over New York’s Part51 project seems to have taken place outside of New York, where it has become a mainstay campaign issue in races across the country. However, a New York Times poll out today shows that a majority of New Yorkers, 67 percent, believe the Islamic center — which has [...]
NLM at the Beck Rally
Posted in Media, Politics, Religion, tagged Glenn Beck, New Left Media on August 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
New Left Media has another entertaining video from Glenn Beck’s Saturday Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C. Think of the attendees what you will, but there is one striking part of the video regarding Beck. Last year, Beck referred to Barack Obama—our country’s first African-American President–as a “racist… who has a deep-seated hatred for white [...]
Douthat Deluded About Beck Rally
Posted in Politics, Religion, tagged Civil Rights, Glenn Beck, Ross Douthat, Sarah Palin on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In his weekly New York Times column today, Ross Douthat says he underestimated Glenn Beck and that the Fox News personality’s star is indeed on the rise. I was surprised to discover that Beck’s star was not on the rise; true, his ratings are down somewhat, but it is summer, and he keeps publishing book after [...]
Why Do More People Than Ever Think Obama is a Muslim?
Posted in Politics, Religion, tagged Bradley effect, Christianity, Islam, Obama, Polls on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A new poll from the Pew Research Center indicates a significant increase in public opinion that President Barack Obama is a Muslim (he is a Christian) — from 11 percent in March 2009 to 18 percent today. There has been an even more massive drop in the belief that Obama is Christian — from 48 [...]
Memorial Crosses in Utah: Unconstitutional?
Posted in Law, Religion, tagged 10th Circuit, Crosses, Supreme Court, Utah on August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Out of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals comes a decision seemingly destined for the Supreme Court: 12-foot crosses erected by the Utah Highway Patrol Association on public land to memorialize fallen highway patrol officers “have the impermissible effect of conveying to the reasonable observer the message that the State prefers or otherwise endorses a [...]
