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RELIGIOUS LITERACY
I don’t think that there could have been a more appropriate song for us to sing that morning, for truly, it was amazing grace that brought us all together in the name of perhaps the most spiritual cause ever—help.
MEDIA & ETHICS
Every time you share a meme or a column or a podcast or a video that you like or agree with, YOU become media.
MEDIA & ETHICS
If Walt were alive today there’s no question Remini’s show would never exist on one of his networks.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Back in the 80s and 90s, people who used Macintosh computers—myself included—were considered odd, as were the computers themselves. Mac users were considered a cult. As a result, Mac sales were dismal. To boost sales in 1997, Steve Jobs launched an ad campaign called “Think Different.”
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
There are still plenty of problems to fix in the world, but stupefying viewers with incessant catastrophes on a 24-hour news cycle has obviously degraded the integrity of news media as a national institution.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Just like in any Disney movie, the villain always loses in the end, winding up with egg on his or her face. Visibly, this Leah character hasn’t yet understood that: to this day she has insisted on rehashing the same old “bad guy” role.
MEDIA & ETHICS
Why “family friendly” Disney would risk its reputation by sponsoring a hate show against a religious group begins to make sense when you measure it against the reward that would be obtained if it could destroy a group that was causing pain to one of its major income sources.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The venerable phrase “In God We Trust” has survived yet another legal attack and will continue to appear on the bills and coins in your pocket. A recent decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul, Minnesota, confirmed similar decisions
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
On the first day of a four-part Open House on Religions of the World, I fulfilled my duty as a Jew. Are you surprised? Well, apparently, having an ancestor on my mother’s side named Pinkus gave me that right and obligation.
MEDIA & ETHICS
Some years ago, my local Church of Scientology was in a legal battle with an individual who was violating the law. We took him to court and eventually won. What we didn’t win was the battle with fake news.
