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Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady weren't looking for controversy. They just wanted to make a documentary in which they "explored faith through the eyes of a child," as Grady puts it. But their search for that true-believing youngster took them to Becky Fischer ("her name kept coming up") and the summer camp she runs for evangelical children in North Dakota. What they found themselves recording for Jesus Camp were 8- to 10-year-old kids in the throes of religious ecstasy--including talking in tongues--and some unexpected connections between that primitive religiosity and hard-line conservative...
...dawn on Ewing and Grady until they began working with their footage in the cutting room. In a sense, Jesus Camp is a record of a crime--the theft of childhood by possibly well-intended but narrowly ideological adults. Its subjects, of course, don't see it that way. Fischer has said it's great publicity for her endeavors. And Ewing sees her point. "It's hard not to respect people who have deep passions," she says. Neither she nor Grady can entirely fathom why the Evangelicals feel so profoundly threatened in a largely tolerant U.S. They speculate that casual...
...Ilana Fischer, a spokeswoman for the Carr Center fellows program, said that the center was looking for “a group of people that represent a diverse range of human rights issues” who would bring a real “lived experience” to these issues...
William F. Schulz, one of the new fellows and the former executive director of Amnesty International, has been “a major player in the human rights world,” Fischer said. As the director of Amnesty for the past 12 years and president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations prior to that, Schulz has worked extensively in the human rights arena...
...Missouri even had his mother move from her St. Louis home into a Des Moines apartment--a better base from which to woo the state's elderly voters. The difference this year is that "people are coming in earlier and more often than they ever have," says Gordon Fischer, former head of the Iowa Democratic Party. The influx reflects a wide-open contest for the White House. For the first time since 1928, no incumbent is bidding for re-election and no sitting Vice President is seeking a promotion. So aspiring Presidents see an opening--and it goes straight through...