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Civility: The Problem of Being Nice
By
Diana Butler Bass
In March, I signed The Civility Covenant issued by the folks at Sojourners. Believe it or not, the Civility Covenant wound up being somewhat controversial as critics from both the political right and left attacked the document. From the left, commenters said that calls for civility are nothing more than tactics to protect white male…
South Park, Muhammad, Jesus, and the Media
By
Diana Butler Bass
The creators of the cartoon South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have been all over the news this week. On the show’s 200th episode, they sort of depicted the Prophet Muhammad thus attracting the attention of a radical website called Revolutionmuslim (since taken down) that, in return, sort of threatened to kill them. As…
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