Culture

Time‘s Hyperbolic Global Warming Cover Story Undermined

by CE Editors May 3, 2001

A letter writer to Time magazine pointed out how about 99 percent of greenhouse gasses are produced by nature, a fact which undermined Time’s hyperbolic cover story from a few weeks ago which blamed mankind and demanded President Bush take…

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Feminism and Its Discontents

by CE Editors May 3, 2001

by Jessica Muller
DURHAM, NC (AgapePress) – “Feminism sounds like it would be an organization that promotes women’s rights … but, of course, it has nothing to do with … helping women.”
Full of little-known details of the inner-workings of…

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Despite Failed TV Show, Dr. Laura Marches On

by CE Editors May 2, 2001

Toys-R-Us Under Fire for Policy on Selling Violent Video Gamesby Rusty Pugh
(AgapePress) – A pro-family advocate says one of the nation's largest toy retailers is selling sex and violence.
A recent Federal Trade Commission report criticized the electronic game…

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Priest Helps Pro-Family Group Confront Pro-Homosexual Ordinance

by CE Editors May 1, 2001

by Rusty Pugh, Jody Brown, and Chad Groening
(AgapePress) – A Michigan pro-family group's efforts to stop a city from enacting a pro-homosexual ordinance is receiving support from the Catholic Church.
Rev. John Harvey, a priest who is founder of…

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TV Networks Refuse Promotion of “Jews for Jesus” Video

by CE Editors April 30, 2001

by Chad Groening
(AgapePress) – Jews for Jesus has released a new video which chronicles the story of seven Holocaust survivors who went on to become followers of Jesus. However, national television networks are refusing to advertise it.
The 60-minute…

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Grading TV Coverage of Bush’s First 100 Days

by CE Editors April 29, 2001

(This report courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
by Rich Noyes
Television's self-styled experts on everything have been busily producing flashy retrospectives of the first 100 days of George W. Bush's presidency — Nightline ran a four-night mini-series last week…

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Media News Briefs

by CE Editors April 27, 2001

• In what is being called the first move of its kind, a Pentecostal pastor and his congregation have joined the Catholic Church. In 1998, Alex Jones, pastor of Detroit's Maranatha Christian Church, was asked to teach a class about…

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Bill Maher As Politically Correct As They Come

by Tom Allen April 27, 2001

Now this is not a show for the feint of heart. On this program, Mr. Belzer attacked Mother Theresa and host Maher joined in the mockery. Maher also suggested that President Bush had an addictive personality and had substituted his…

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“Knowing” and “Doing” Remain Two Different Things

by David Sisler April 26, 2001

(AgapePress) – You have seen the line in movie credits: “No animal was harmed during the filming of this motion picture.” After watching a particularly stupid commercial a few nights ago, I wondered if a similar tag-line could be penned:…

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Traditional Values, Activism Cited as Keys for Change

by CE Editors April 25, 2001

by Bill Fancher
WASHINGTON, DC (AgapePress) – Virginia Republican Representative Frank Wolf has been a proponent of traditional family values for many years. He says they are the same values of the men and women who shaped America into the…

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