“The Lord said, ‘Be submissive. Wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands,’” she told the crowd at a Minnesota megachurch.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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9 things to know about Perry’s prayer event
NAR’s agenda of theocratic dominion over all aspects of society is threatening to modern secular democracy and the religious pluralism it protects.
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Rick Perry’s Army of God
A chain of powerful prophecies had proclaimed that Texas was “The Prophet State,” anointed by God to lead the United States into revival and Godly government.
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An underreported sector of the Religious Right
Rick Perry may have been counting on the fact that most Americans would not be able to distinguish the apostles from any other conservative evangelicals.
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Meet The New Apostolic Reformation
This stuff is even crazier than the other crazy stuff – and these are the people who organized Rick Perry’s prayer rally.
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Fake rave reviews for sale
As online retailers increasingly depend on reviews as a sales tool, an industry of fibbers and promoters has sprung up to buy and sell raves for a pittance.
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Education is the key to Afghanistan’s future
Investing in Afghanistan’s teachers could have been one of the cheapest, quickest ways to reinvigorate the country’s human capital.
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Jeffrey Toobin on the Thomases v Obama
As the Justice has assumed an influential role on the Roberts Court, his wife has helped lead the public war against the Administration.
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The illusion of asymmetric insight
You believe you see more of other people’s icebergs than they see of yours; meanwhile, they think the same thing about you.
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Paying attention to what isn’t there
If it should be there and isn’t, that could be significant.
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Dawkins to Perry: evolution is a fact
Evolution is not some recondite backwater of science, ignorance of which would be pardonable.
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UK: company threatens critics with libel action
Because Atos Healthcare are out-sourced work by the public sector they are allowed to sue for defamation.
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Vatican used Irish bank loans to pay US victims
Allied Irish Bank guaranteed hundreds of millions, which allowed the Archdiocese of LA to avoid court and opening documents to scrutiny.
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Al Jazeera: fighting rages at Gaddafi compound
Rebels have entered the fortified compound in Bab al-Azizya in Tripoli, amid intensified fighting with forces loyal to Gaddafi.
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Guardian liveblogging on Libya
Rebels have taken Gaddafi’s compound.
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Public health blogger shut down by employers
He disagreed with a pharmaceuticals “entrepreneur” – who sent email threats to his employer, a state health department.
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Obituary of liberal secularism in Pakistan
Radicalism is going to be the future of a country where the religious and political right are increasingly gaining strength and followers.
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Discovered: the oldest fossils on earth
The microscopic fossils show convincing evidence for cells and bacteria living in an oxygen-free world over 3.4 billion years ago.
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BBC on religion as big business in Nigeria
“Nigerians have become desperate, and gullible, and these churches service this market,” says Leo Igwe.
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Breast ironing in Cameroon
Girls’ breasts are flattened with hot stones or pestles to make the girls less desirable and to delay pregnancy.