Religious Revival

As Ahmad al-Shugairi took the stage, dressed in a flowing white gown and headdress, he clutched a microphone and told his audience that he had no religious training or titles: "I am not a sheik." But over the next two hours, he worked the crowd as masterfully as any preacher, drawing rounds of…

Barack Obama's transition team is ringing in the New Year with a series of meetings with religious groups. It is striking that the names that dominate the list are the very ones that some people (Rick Warren: "The mainline is sidelined") have declared dead such as mainline Protestants, reform…

Dutch turn to frugal Calvinism in hard economic times

It's no surprise that advertisers are running for the hills after Glenn Beck's idiotic remarks……is, I believe, a racist." This is the sort of rhetoric and attitude you might expect at a bigoted religious revival or KKK meeting. It's not the rhetoric or attitude you expect from the…

Drunken Caberet Get Loweded! For their final show of the year, the Get Loweded! gang gets apocalyptic with an old-timey religious revival/multimedia arts explosion exploring the ultimate battle of good and evil, or something. Helping out is an A-list of talents from Seattle and…

Songs of Kabir 1.0Category: BooksPrice: $0.99 (iTunes)Description:Songs of Kabirtr. by Rabindranath TagoreThe 15th-century poet Kabir created……Hindu ascetic Râmânanda. Râmânanda had brought to Northern India the religious revival which Râmânuja, the great twelfth-century…

The Maverick is bringin' it back for us one more time -- way back -- Bible style. John McCain's campaign has released a sequel to an original ad……imagery likens Barack Obama to Moses and portrays his popularity as a religious revival. So far, all of the campaigns' religious rhetoric…

Having an incredible 2009 thus far with rave reviews of their debut "Part One: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made" on Asthmatic Kitty, Highland Park's……little.) Instead, we sound like Prince with Amon Duul II and a children's religious revival, not to mention Hot Chip, Pink Floyd, Gwen…

When I was a little girl growing up in Walla Walla, almost every spring our grade school would visit the Whitman Mission or "Waiilatpu" as it was……country on foot, opening the way for more pioneer women. Converted at a religious revival at the age of 11, Narcissa decided she wanted to…

Blackboard as a company is powerful, it strong arms its way around the educational tech business to their benefit. But, Blackboard often fails. As……JEFFREY R. YOUNG New York Jim Groom sounded like a preacher at a religious revival when he spoke to professors and administrators at the Cit