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The world has witnessed case
after case of elementary school-aged girls being sold off
into marriages with men old enough to be their grandfathers.
This plague is disturbingly common in the Muslim world despite
Islam condemning such practices. Instead, Saudi Arabia, Yemen,
and their counterparts in the Middle East are increasingly
painting a portrait of Islam that resembles the pre-Islamic
period of Jahiliya >>
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 If
you want to keep thinking that medieval Islam was unfriendly
to science, that medieval Christians propounded a flat-earth
theory, that the church once denounced anesthesia as unscriptural,
that Huxley routed Wilberforce in a famous confrontation over
Darwin's "monkey theory," that the Scopes Trial
blew opposition to evolution out of the water, that creation
science is a uniquely American phenomenon—then you'd
better avoid this book >>
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Does abstinence-only sex education
work? The debate heats up >>
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Do we need more religion in foreign policy? A US thinktank,
the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, thinks we do. In a
recent report, it urges diplomats to get over the instinctive
queasiness they feel when they step off their normal turf
of secular politics >>
more Guardian |
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Father Hans Kung blames Catholic views on sex for clerical
child abuse >>
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Oscar Romero: Still Presente!
Three decades later, the slain archbishop’s memory continues
to inspire >>
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If the Bible's accounts are to
be believed, God had spin doctors too. In the Hebrew scriptures,
it was the prophets who were charged with delivering the messages
of the Almighty. Often resorting to visual displays and stunts,
their interventions were also highly political >>
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Is the Church of England still
in God's own country? >>
more Telegraph |
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The whited sepulchres of Anglicanism.
Bishops praising religious liberty are as phony as Thatcherites
praising compassion >>
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About 100 traditionalist Anglican
parishes across the United States have decided to convert
en masse to the Roman Catholic Church >>
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Anti-Catholic leaflet stirs holy
war in Tennessee town >>
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It was announced this week that
the Pope will visit Spain in November. The news comes during
a tense phase in Church-State relations after the Spanish
Senate approved a new abortion law on 25 February. It is the
latest round in a battle that the secularising government
seems to be winning >>
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As
a Fulbright scholar in Damascus, she lived among Syrian street
vendors, Armenian neighbors and Iraqi refugees, then headed
to a mountain monastery where she communed with Jesus and
seriously considered becoming a nun. A Christmas visit home
changed her mind, and she returned to finish her year in Syria,
where she emerged from depression, taught English to >>
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Poll shows support in Europe
for burka ban >>
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The Muslim militant tendancy
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The question of climate change
is secondary to the need for creation care >>
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Americans already know the purpose
of life: to worship god and make money, which have been two
sides of the same ontological coin since Alexander Hamilton,
one of America's first economists -- who also happened to
be one of our first lawyers too >>
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Many Egyptian intellectuals now
suspect that the corrupted old Egyptian governments are partly
responsible for the increasingly sectarian nature of disputes
between Muslims and Egyptian Copts – always presented
by the government, of course, as domestic disputes which have
nothing to do with religion. But the alienation of the Christians
and the increasingly "Islamicisation" of the country
has got a lot to do with it >>
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In
theological terms, today's vampire stories focus on a difficult
but central tenet of Christian discipleship: the love of enemies
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more The Christian Century |
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Let's get theological on health
care and warefare >>
more Sojourners |
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Protests continue over Israeli
occupation of Christian-owned land >>
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British peers vote for church
civil partnership ceremonies >>
more Times Online |
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A Christian sexual alternative?
Both conservatives and liberals have had their views of sexuality
shaped by the culture >>
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The great religious battle of
our time is not the one being waged between believers and
unbelievers. It is the clash occurring within religious traditions.
The battle within each of the three great monotheistic religions
is between the exoteric and esoteric versions of each >>
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Fatwas can be a force for good.
Sadly, we all remember the death warrant on Salman Rushdie
but next month a fatwa against terrorism will be delivered
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Danish newspaper apologises over
Prophet Mohammed cartoon >>
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This year's Academy Awards ceremony
on March 7 features a bumper crop of films, many that are
built around spiritual, and sometimes overtly religious, themes.
Are 2009's movies really more spiritually focused than films
of recent years? Has Hollywood found religion? Or are producers
just recognizing that religion sells? >>
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Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged
the survivors of Chile's devastating quake to be courageous
and asked the Catholic church to play a role in relief efforts
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This tide of anti-Muslim hatred
is a threat to us all >>
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Scottish Episcopal Church attacks
Labour 'party of faith' claims >>
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You will always find a religious
interpretation of any conflict between Coptics and Muslims
because we live in an era of tension between the religions
that I’ve never seen registered at this level, and that’s
why in any conflicts between Muslims and Coptics, in the subway
or the market, it will always end up being taken in the religious
context >>
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One man's rebel is another man's
square. The phrase "Jesus was a rebel" means different
things to different people >>
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Nearly
40 per cent of Brits and over 70 per cent of Americans think
angels exist. James Walton explores the strange resurgence
of faith in heavenly helpers >>
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Fat cats and evangelicals: what
a Tory win would really mean >>
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After months of work, President
Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood
Partnerships is about to send him dozens of proposals on revamping
the White House’s faith-based program. The proposals
will also set priorities for the office and will renew debate
— and media coverage — of this controversial initiative
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These
brief but potent books are welcome additions to the conversation
about the thorny relationship between faith, depression and
mental illness >>
more The Christian Century |
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What exactly is wrong with sharing
one's life and experience from the pulpit? When I criticize
the use of the personal story in preaching, pastors or seminary
students inevitably disagree with me >>
more The Christian Century |
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The Palestinian president warns
that the region could plunge into a "religious war"
over Israel's plans to recognize a disputed West Bank shrine
as one of its own national heritage sites >>
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Pope enters airport body scanners
row >>
more Guardian |
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Burma plans crackdown on monks
as election nears >>
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A set of poll results published
yesterday make some fascinating reading, and challenge the
idea that religious people (when considered as a whole) vote
that differently to others >>
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Christian support for Obama declines
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more The Barna Group |
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The
liberal mistake has been to assume that ethics alone are the
touchstone of Christian authenticity, with the result that
the “ontological question” of the meaning of homosexuality
is bypassed >>
more The Tablet |
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Another exemption for faiths.
Minister of Education has amended his own bill, giving faith
schools an opt-out on sex education. Why the special treatment?
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The numbers of people getting
married in Britain are decreasing and the sharpest falls are
in church weddings, particularly Catholic ones. Here, an expert
on the institution argues that one cause of the decline is
our diffidence in advocating the merits of marriage >>
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