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Appealing to Orthodox Jews, Israeli media remove women from view
By Michele Chabin — July 21, 2023
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Determined to return women’s images to the public sphere, a feminist Orthodox Israeli has created a unique photo bank of religious Jewish women and their families. It has become a resource for positive images of religious Jewish women.
A $100 million ad campaign wants to fix Jesus’ image. His followers remain a problem.
By Bob Smietana — October 10, 2022
(RNS) — A major ad campaign for Jesus will expand in the months leading up to the Super Bowl. The He Gets Us campaign hopes to rescue the message of Jesus from the misdeeds of Christians.
The sin and self-care of Peloton
By Tara Isabella Burton — December 9, 2019
(RNS) — Peloton isn’t to blame if our culture is obsessed with self-improvement or for the quasi-eroticization of ‘decadent’ self-care. It's just riding alongside.
Glamour and unattainability is out. Spiritual refreshment is in
By Tara Isabella Burton — August 23, 2019
(RNS) — Today’s advertisements are designed to evoke different and more numinous emotions: spiritual well-being, an inward journey, a moral sensibility. We’re buying the very things that organized religion used to provide us for free.
Facebook enabled advertisers to reach ‘Jew haters’
By ProPublica — September 14, 2017
After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring.
‘Hey ISIS, you suck!!!’ New campaign by #ActualMuslims pulls no punches
By David Gibson — August 5, 2016
(RNS) 'It's about shouting out, ‘ISIS does not represent me, I’m Muslim, I say the word ‘sucks,’ I’m like everyone else in my country,' ' said Leena Suleiman of the PR agency behind the ads.
Fishy religion-spoof: Do you ‘sea’ fun or blasphemy?
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — July 28, 2015
Does a tongue-in-cheek approach with a spiritual spin hook your attention?
Was ‘Christianity Today’ justified in rejecting this controversial ad?
By Jonathan Merritt — September 12, 2014
We’re now facing a perennial issue where activists on both sides of this debate expect to be invited to every party and demand to be heard in whatever forum they choose.
Boehner rival loses Christian college job over ‘electile dysfunction’ ad
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — April 29, 2014
(RNS) J.D. Winteregg, the Tea Party candidate challenging the House speaker in the 8th District north of Cincinnati, has been an adjunct professor of French at Cedarville University for three years.
Samuel Adams unnecessarily brews controversy
By Jonathan Merritt — July 9, 2013
The beer maker omits reference to God in their Declaration of Independence advertisement, outraging some consumers.
Newest front in the Christmas wars: billboards
By Kimberly Winston — December 18, 2012
(RNS) A billboard bearing a positive message about atheism has been vandalized — again. A billboard posted in Chico, Calif., that originally read “Don’t believe in God? Join the club” was defaced on Dec. 12, less than a week after it appeared, with vandals removing the word “don’t.” The billboard was one of 12 purchased […]
COMMENTARY: Debating the value of the debates
By Tom Ehrich — October 9, 2012
(RNS) Presidential debates are like first visits to possible in-laws. You hope not to belch at supper -- and then you return to the world where you are actually exploring marriage and building a life. By Tom Ehrich.
COMMENTARY: Truth: Who needs it?
By Tom Ehrich — August 7, 2012
(RNS) Instead of reasoned debate among people who all seek the common good, we have a toxic spew of ads aimed at nothing more than instilling fear and hatred. Such willful destruction of the public square is despicable, and now it has become normal. By Tom Ehrich.
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