Disney’s announcement that it planned to create a black princess drew a range of excitedly positive as well as sharply critical responses, with some reporters, bloggers, and members of the general public expressing little confidence in the racial sensitivity of the studio that gave us Song of the South (1946), or in the company that still features a ride based on the film at its theme parks.
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Doomed by demographics, The [Southern] Baptists Shrink in numbers, writes historian Andrew Michael Manis in the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life’s thrice-yearly journal Religion in the News.
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In June, while reviewing the 94 magazines owned by RDA, president and CEO Mary Berner held the Purpose Driven Connection venture up as the company’s model for future success.
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Creation Challenge is a joint project of the Methodist Church in Britain, United Reform Church and the Baptist Union of Great Britain and offers this eerily persuasive video:
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Unable to inspire enough subscribers, Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Connection quarterly magazine has been sent to the shredder by its partner, the Readers Digest Association (RDA).
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The Christian Right turned its big guns on New York’s 23rd, helping annihilate Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava and making Bill Owens the first Democrat to hold that congressional seat since 1871.
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