by Leroy Seat | Jan 2, 2012 | Opinion
Forty years ago, in his World Day for Peace message on Jan. 1, 1972, Pope Paul VI declared, “If you want peace, work for justice.” Those were very significant words that, for good reason, have often been quoted throughout the last four decades. Pope...
by Nicole Neroulias | Apr 11, 2011 | News
(RNS) A Jewish organization is celebrating Passover two weeks early, proclaiming freedom from Glenn Beck’s television show. Jewish Funds for Justice, a social advocacy nonprofit, has taken credit for the polarizing personality’s pending exit from Fox News. The group...
by Gene Davenport | Nov 22, 2010 | Opinion
I had not intended to write another column on Glenn Beck, but a recent episode of his TV show demands a response. The program was about an environment curriculum Beck fears will be taught in public schools with a counterpart in churches and synagogues. Not having seen...
by Gene Davenport | Nov 16, 2010 | Opinion
Someone has said, “Everyone has a right to his or her opinion, but not to his or her facts.” I thought of that saying recently while watching Glenn Beck, who hosts one of television’s most watched talk shows. Beck, who regularly recites his version...
by Robert Parham | Nov 1, 2010 | Opinion
Reacting to Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally in August, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert sponsored the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on Saturday at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Beck’s rally was pitched as a...