Three years after a scandal at the
Air Force Academy over the evangelizing of cadets by Christian staff and faculty members, students and staff at West Point and the Naval Academy are complaining that their schools, too, have pushed religion on cadets and midshipmen. NY TimesJust over a year after it was originally published as a paperback, “The Shack” had its debut at No. 1 on the New York Times trade paperback fiction best-seller list on June 8 and has stayed there ever since. It is No. 1 on Borders Group’s trade paperback fiction list, and at Barnes & Noble it has been No. 1 on the trade paperback list since the end of May, outselling even Mr. Tolle’s spiritual guide “A New Earth,” selected by Ms. Winfrey’s book club in January.
NY TimesModesto is known as the bible belt of California. It has deep conservative roots in farmland and a vocal Evangelical community. But increasingly, some less familiar notes are echoing through California's Central Valley, CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports.
CBS News with VideoThink you know what Americans believe about religion? You might want to think again. Seven in ten Americans who follow one particular faith believe many religions can lead to eternal life. Despite the intense attention paid to evangelical and Catholic voters in a high-stakes election year, only half say they pay close attention to politics.
Christianity TodayIt would be lovely to imagine the era of brutal Earth-mauling technologies, coal extraction and petroleum and industrial agriculture and strip mining and clear cutting and industrial fishing and all rest, all the more rapacious and unforgiving notions of how we exist on this planet are, after an era of unchecked capitalistic greed and waste and over-consumption right along with almost zero concern for consequences and the ethics of sustainability, finally moving toward obsolescence -- or rather, are quickly being shoved there by sheer necessity, brutal market forces, as supply runs dry and oil production slows and the Earth groans and spits and says, "enough already."
SF ChronicleChapman University forecasters say U.S. is in recession -- The economists say California is suffering too as the housing crisis trickles down to the job market. Conor L. Sanchez in the
Los Angeles TimesArtist Wyland says California must stop using his whale tail on license plates -- The Laguna Beach artist who created California's iconic whale-tail license plate is making a splash with state coastal officials, revoking the state's right to use his art after they snubbed his request to share profits from the image with his environmental group. Susannah Rosenblatt in the
Los Angeles Times
