Posts Tagged ‘ Huffington Post ’

HuffPost: Justus Baird’s advice to Rick Santorum draws on American Grace

March 22, 2012
By tomsander

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Here’s Rabbi Justus Baird’s unsolicited advice to Rick Santorum (kibbutzing) on his campaign strategy in the Huffington Post. Bolded items drawn from American Grace:

Excerpt: I know you’re crazy-campaign-busy…..News about your recent campaign event in Greenwell Springs, La., inspired me to…

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Religious more prone to being scammed?

November 23, 2010
By tomsander

Nicole Neroulias with the Religion News Service notes how many scams have preyed on the religious (Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baptists, black churches and other denominations, and even Utah Mormons).  Is there a pattern she asks?  Quite possibly:

Harvard scholar…

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Giving thanks very predictive

November 23, 2010
By tomsander

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In American Grace, co-authors David Campbell and Robert Putnam, note how predictive saying grace before meals is.

Don’t expect a lot of households to suddenly switch to giving thanks on Thanksgiving.  With most variables, there is…

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Rabbi Eric Yoffie on American Grace in Huffington Post

October 15, 2010
By tomsander

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Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, wrote a October 12, 2010 Huffington Post article on how the media got America’s religious wrong, citing American Grace for some of his conclusions:

Excerpt:

Events…

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Putnam interview on American Grace with Religion News Service

October 14, 2010
By tomsander

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Excerpt:

Putnam is concerned, however, that many Americans don’t share his fluid comfort among believers and non-believers. Instead, they fear people unlike themselves, often out of ignorance.

“People who are really secular and don’t really know much…

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What Americans Need to Know About Religion (Huffington Post)

October 6, 2010
By tomsander

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Diane Winston, discussing the recent Pew survey on religious literacy writes:

The focus on factoids obscures a central challenge of the 21st century: negotiating the absolute conflict of multiple religious absolutes.

That’s a hard lesson for…

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Mormons move to mainstream

October 1, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by MM Goode

According to Religion News Service:

“Mormons have been making headlines across the nation — from HBO’s Big Love to California’s Proposition 8, from American Idol wannabe David Archuleta to Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, from Senate…

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