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Fox News spent an entire week hyping a supposed “War on Easter,” pointing to the decision made by a few school boards to hold “Spring egg hunt[s]” instead of Easter egg hunts. In seven days, Fox devoted 10 segments to what host Bill O’Reilly called the continued “war on Judeo-Christian tradition.” On March 21, O’Reilly lambasted President Obama and the White House for empowering “secular progressives” to pressure school districts around the country to eliminate terms like “Easter bunny” and “Easter egg.” O’Reilly complained that “the war on Judeo-Christian tradition continues in some public school districts,” citing districts in five states that he said “are having Spring egg events.

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Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is an opportunity to learn from his strategic thinking and mastery of rhetoric. That is especially true on the day Obama will be delivering his second inaugural address.

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Max Wei, via Climate Access It is often argued that we have an ethical obligation to combat climate change for two related reasons: (1) we must not cause serious harm to future generations, and (2) we have an ethical duty to preserve the natural environment based on notions of stewardship or to preserve and respect animal life. While these appeals are based on rational arguments and make sense to many people, they are problematic on several levels. First, the appeals are extrinsic or external to our individual selves; second, they refer to people and places distant in time and space, and thirdly, they lack any direct causality.

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CNN’s Erin Burnett hosted the Rev.

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The anticipated debate between “It Gets Better” Project founder Dan Savage and the National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown, which came about after Savage made provocative statements noting that the Bible supports the practice of slavery, is now online for all to view. Savage and his family hosted Brown for dinner in their home, and afterward, Mark Oppenheimer of the New York Times hosted a dinner-table debate over the issue of same-sex marriage. Savage offered an articulate explanation of the many conflicts presented in the Bible, pointing out how it fails to align with the 21st Century Zeitgeist of morality and so serves no authority on the question of same-sex marriage.

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Rhetoric Race and Religion . This blog explores and examines the intersections of rhetoric, race, and religion . …

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The remarks came on the tail of similar remarks from a North Carolina legislator who called Planned Parenthood , America’s largest abortion provider, “murder for hire” in response to a campaign seeking to convince state …

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Confession time: I am an Anabaptist. Not just a cradle Menno/Brethren, but also an Anabaptist of the Neo kind. So when James Davidson Hunter called out the Neo-Anabaptists in his recent book To Change the World, ..

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“Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky’s child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State. The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for …

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We here at Rhetoric Race and Religion thought we would capture some of the articles that examine this tragedy from the lens of race and/or religion. We especially want to share articles that focuses on how people are using …

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