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...movie reports all this quite objectively, using only a liberal Methodist radio talk show host named Mike Papantonio, to answer the fundamentalists. But Papantonio's main point is that the tie-in between fundamentalism and political agendas violates America's fundamental church-state separation. This is self-evidently true and at a moment when a church in Pasadena is under investigation by the IRS because a liberal, election-eve sermon was preached from its pulpit, while no one looks into the doings at Devil's Lake or at the churches of the evangelical ministers who endorse them...
...Jesus Camp cannot answer that question; no movie can. If there is one faint ray of hope in the film it flickers briefly in a dorm discussion of Harry Potter. Most the kids say the J. K. Rowling books are forbidden in their homes. But one little boys admits, quite cheerfully, that when he is staying with his divorced father, he is permitted to read them. Let us not wonder if it was religious differences that drove his father forth. Or if religious belief is one way his former wife compensates for a broken marriage. Let's instead concentrate...
...opponent were Harvard men, Firenze, a Bentley College grad, responded, “I’m not intimidated.” Despite audience members’ acrimony, the debate itself lacked much controversy. On the topic of improving local traffic conditions, Firenze responded to Brownsberger’s answer with “ditto.” Only on the Iraq war and abortion did the candidates differ. Firenze felt that it would be a “bad idea”—and unconstitutional—for the governor to withdraw the state?...
...volunteer bird watchers tallied nearly 3,770 bald eagles in the skies over Brackendale, British Columbia. Ever since then, this small Canadian town has rejoiced in the[an error occurred while processing this directive] title of "bald-eagle capital of the world." Why Brackendale, you might ask? The answer is to be found in the annual spawning of chum salmon, which turns the nearby Squamish River into a floating buffet that North America's iconic raptors find irresistible. Spawning season runs from mid-November to mid-February, and the best way to get close to the eagles swooping...
...Politics’ (IOP) first advance movie screening, held Tuesday, Sept. 12, at the AMC Loews Theater in Harvard Square. Following the film, David T. Ellwood ’75, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government and Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, hosted a question and answer forum with several members of the production team: screenwriter and director Steven Zaillian, executive producer David Thwaites, and producers Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messer. Fans of actor Mark Ruffalo were disappointed, however, as he was not present in spite of advertisements to the contrary. The four speakers eagerly expressed their...