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Scientists have long found an
association between relaxation and health. Now there is growing
evidence that spiritual practices have a beneficial and measurable
effect on the brain. In his book “How God Changes Your
Brain,” Andrew Newberg reports that meditation improves
memory and reduces stress, and how you view God can affect
the structure of your brain >>
more Religion &
Ethics, PBS |
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 The
Enlightenment: good for what ails us? >>
more Journal for Cultural
& Religious Theory |
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Although
the Left Behind series has not yet been left behind by all
the Christian faithful, in my experience many are looking
for more helpful ways to read Revelation as Christian scripture
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more The Christian
Century |
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The Church of Sweden is considering
a proposal to institute fines for swearing at meetings of
the Synod, the church's official governing body >>
more UPI |
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Novelist Anne Rice has had a
religious conversion: She's no longer a Christian >>
more Yahoo News |
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The Catholic Church is to release
its archive documents on 11 people killed by the Army almost
39 years ago >>
more BBC News |
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The majority of British adults
favour women bishops, while 39% believe that the Church of
England should allow the appointment of bishops who are homosexual
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more YouGov |
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A 15-member committee that includes the Archbishop of Canterbury
recently rejected a proposal that The Episcopal Church be
separated from the rest of the global Anglican Communion >>
more The Christian
Post |
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Nietzsche
regarded Christianity as an intellectual error. In this respect,
he was heir to the broadly rationalist tradition of the Enlightenment
critique of Christianity and earlier nineteenth-century ideas
of religion as projection …. What is distinctive in
Nietzsche's thought is his view of what lies behind that error
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more Books & Culture |
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Florida church to host a 'Burn
a Koran Day' on September 11 >>
more USA Today |
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If we’re to believe most
social conservatives today, America’s Founding Fathers
were Bible-thumping, fire and brimstone spewing evangelicals
who didn’t make any decision without first seeking guidance
from prayer. Yet this view of U.S. history has little basis
in fact >>
more City Beat |
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While many observers have suggested
that the economy has caused people to become more focused
on life’s essentials, the current study shows a drop
in two life components that consistently top the list: family
and faith >>
more The Barna Group |
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Whatever happens, Israel can
always count on U.S. evangelicals. Thousands of Christian
activists descended on Washington this week in a show of strength
by America's pro-Israel Christians >>
more Haaretz |
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China. Seven new bishops do not
a summer make. They were ordained and installed with the twofold
approval of the Church of Rome and of the communist authorities.
Optimism at the Vatican. But also caution. For Chinese Catholics,
religious freedom remains a forbidden dream >>
more www.chiesa |
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Children are being branded as
witches in churches in the UK, with many suffering abuse from
supposed exorcisms in which they are physically restrained
and screamed at. But those are the lucky ones >>
more The Independent |
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Latest Vatican document is final
straw for women. The Vatican must no longer be granted immunity
from equality legislation, in the name of liberty, equality,
and even the Gospel >>
more The Irish Times |
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Christ & Katrina >>
more Touchstone |
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Students and lecturers are warning
that theology and religious studies departments in British
universities could be under threat due to cuts in higher education
funding. Bangor University will this year accept new theology
students for the last time, while staff at Birmingham have
warned that they will consider strike action to resist compulsory
redundancies >>
more Ekklesia |
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The Democratic Republic of Congo
has been celebrating its fiftieth anniversary of independence.
But the end of colonialism has been marred by poor governance
and bloodshed. Only the work of missionaries in education
and health care has prevented total chaos >>
more The Tablet |
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Disappearing Christians of Iraq.
There numbers are dwindling as they escape persecution from
their Islamic neigbours >>
more Religion &
Ethics, PBS |
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Skip the sermons, costly church
buildings and large, faceless crowds, they say. House church
is about relationships forged in small faith communities >>
more USA Today |
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop
Desmond Tutu has announced he is to withdraw from public life
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more BBC News |
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"Osama
bin Laden hijacked four airplanes and a religion." So
reads a full-page ad that appeared in the New York Times in
October 2001 and contains statements condemning the 9/11 attacks
from some of the world's most prominent Muslim leaders. John
Esposito calls attention to the ad as he urges readers to
recognize mainstream Islam >>
more The Christian
Century |
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With so many Christian leaders
on one side of immigration reform, how could there be any
doubt? But there is doubt. Polls show church members with
deeply divided opinions. The issue is far more complicated
than the rhetoric used by many who favor liberalizing current
immigration law >>
more Christianity Today |
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Several proposed Islamic centers,
including one near Ground Zero, have touched off a heated
nationwide debate that raises questions about the state of
religious tolerance in post-9/11 America >>
more The Christian
Science Monitor |
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New
evidence has come to light which suggests that the evangelical
campaigner William Wilberforce was involved in slavery, despite
his successful campaign to abolish the transatlantic trade
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more Ekklesia |
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Undercover
among the Evangelicals. They're nice, but they don't know
how to think >>
more Books & Culture |
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You can't take the back alley
out of abortion >>
more First Things |
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Vatican: ordaining female priests
on par with pedophilia >>
more Time |
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The cluelessness of the Roman
Catholic Church is jaw-dropping >>
more San Francisco
Chronical |
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Ethical eating >>
more Religion &
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For more than two thousand years,
Jezebel has been saddled with a reputation as the bad girl
of the Bible, the wickedest of women. This ancient queen has
been denounced as a murderer, prostitute and enemy of God,
and her name has been adopted for lingerie lines and World
War II missiles alike. But just how depraved was Jezebel?
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more Biblical Archeology
Review |
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Traditionalists in the Church
of England are contemplating their next move after the General
Synod voted against making any formal provision for them when
women bishops are ordained. Do they cross the Tiber or stay
to fight on? >>
more The Tablet |
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Ecumenism. The true story of
a war that never was >>
more www.chiesa |
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Two arrested for blasphemy, Christians face danger >>
more CathNews India |
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Women bishops: what God would
want >>
more Guardian |
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Behave like Christians on issue
of women bishops, Archbishop Sentamu tells warring Church
of England >>
more Mail Online |
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In France, Britain, Spain and
Germany there is broad support for a measure being considered
by the French parliament that would make it illegal for Muslim
women to wear veils in public that cover all of the face except
the eyes. In contrast, most Americans would oppose such a
measure >>
more Pew Research Center |
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The US federal law banning gay
marriage is unconstitutional because it interferes with the
right of a state to define the institution and therefore denies
married gay couples some federal benefits, a federal judge
ruled >>
more Christian Science
Monitor |
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The
Romans razed Carthage to the ground in 146 BC. In 410 AD Rome
itself was sacked by Alaric. In the same year Augustine, Bishop
of Hippo in North Africa, preached to a congregation many
of whom still spoke Punic. Also in the congregation were refugees
from Rome who, under pressure from the long barbarian siege,
had – in spite of their nominal Christianity –
not been above consulting Etruscan soothsayers. These flaky
“believers” prompted Augustine to write his masterpiece
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Introverts
who read Sara Maitland's new book about silence may need to
recommit themselves to the commandment not to covet. In the
first chapter, Maitland is sitting on the porch of her house
on a high moor in England's County Durham on a warm October
morning, "with nothing in my diary for the next fortnight."
By chapter two, in order to more fully explore her hunch that
"silence is something positive, not just an abstraction
or absence" >>
more The Christian
Century |
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Flag vs. font: pledging our allegiance
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more God's Politics,
Sojourners |
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A series of studies published
in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found
that people who were asked whether they would die for their
faith or support their country going to war in its defence
were more likely to say yes when they were in anxiety-provoking
situations >>
more Telegraph |
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Jeffrey John barred from becoming
Bishop of Southwark - the second time that he has failed to
be appointed to such a senior position following a row over
his sexuality >>
more Guardian |
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No chance a Roman Catholic could
become king after monarchy reforms are abandoned >>
more Mail Online |
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The president of the Lutheran World Federation, the
Rev Mark S. Hanson, says "commitment, capacity and concern"
defined the purpose of a recent ecumenical church leaders'
meeting on Middle East issues at the White House >>
more Ekklesia |
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In Belgium they searched the
tombs of the bishops, in the United States they're summoning
the pope for trial. A transformation of legal culture and
court practice is on the horizon. The analysis of Professor
Pietro De Marco >>
more www.chiesa |
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The
language God talks >>
more Books & Culture |
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Islamo-fascism, Judaeo-fascism, Bapto-fascism, and
why we need more bars >>
more Fred on Everything |
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Pope in plea for a bit of quiet
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more AFP |
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The Supreme Court wrapped up
its current term this week with a 5-4 ruling in a case closely
watched by religious groups. It pitted a publicly funded law
school’s policy of no racial, religious, or sexual discrimination
against a Christian group’s claim that it should be
able to discriminate regarding its members and their beliefs
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Ethics, PBS |
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While Rome is under siege, the
cardinals quarrel >>
more www.chiesa |
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Without its immunity, can the
Vatican survive? >>
more Guardian |
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In
the foreword to Just War as Christian Discipleship,
Lieutenant Colonel Scott A. Sterling, an army chaplain, recounts
a conversation he had with a female officer in Iraq who was
eager to make moral sense of her combat experience. Is it
right that we are here? Are we doing any good? Should we have
invaded in the first place? >>
more The Christian
Century |
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For many in the West, 'natural
disasters' are a reason to question religious belief. In places
like Haiti, intense, personal faith can be a resource for
community empowerment and change >>
more Ekklesia |
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Archbishop of Canterbury backs
female bishops >>
more The Times |
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The proposed Covenant is the
culmination of a conservative and homophobic drive for power
in the Anglican Communion >>
more Guardian |
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An attempt to block the appointment
of a white man to a senior clerical post within the House
of Commons has been branded “political correctness”
by his congregation >>
more
Telegraph |
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Pope causes outrage for condemning
church abuse raids in Belgium >>
more Guardian |
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Members of a Belgian church commission
that helps sexual abuse victims have resigned to protest a
raid on the Catholic Church headquarters in Belgium >>
more CNN |
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Who is active in "group"
expressions of faith? Barna Study examines small groups, Sunday
School, and House Churches >>
more The Barna Group |
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Newman’s
unquiet grave: the reluctant saint >>
more The Tablet |
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Religion is here to stay. Dawkins
can rant till the sacred cows come home, but people have always
yearned for the transcendent, and always will >>
more The Independent |
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Richard Dawkins has said he is interested in setting
up an atheist “free school” under the Government’s
plan to encourage independent education establishments >>
more Telegraph |
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Why a conversion ethic is the
solution to persistent UK poverty >>
more Ekklesia |
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Richards’s
book is a deeply personal, visceral affirmation of
the divinity’s “isness.” As he declares
in his introduction, his book “simply states God is
present, and always was and will be whether we say we have
faith or not >>
more Commonweal |
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On two occasions last week my
dog was barred from London buses on religious grounds >>
more Telegraph |
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More than 40 per cent of Americans
believe Jesus Christ will return to Earth by 2050, according
to a poll >>
more Telegraph |
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It was called for by pope Ratzinger,
by the name of "court of the gentiles." It will
be inaugurated by his minister for culture, Archbishop Ravasi.
It will be a place for dialogue with those far from God, the
first act of a wider project of new evangelization >>
more www.chiesa |
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Marilynne
Robinson decries a prevailing notion that we have crossed
some threshold which gives the thought that follows a special
claim to the status of truth, that after Darwin, Nietzsche,
and Freud, after structuralism and the death of God, some
assumptions were to be forever acknowledged as naïve
and untenable >>
more Books & Culture |
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What Christians contribute to
the search for a national identity >>
more Christianity Today |
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Christians should not feel “embarrassed
or awkward” about wanting to convert others to their
faith, according to the two most senior clerics in the Church
of England >>
more Telegraph |
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Newspaper coverage of the Catholic
clergy sexual abuse scandal grew more intense this spring
than at any time since 2002, and European newspapers devoted
even more ink to the story than American papers did >>
more Pew Research Center |
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The
attacks of 9/11 and their aftermath have caused great pain
to U.S. Muslims. They have experienced formal and informal
discrimination and large and small forms of public humiliation
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more The Christian
Century |
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A senior cardinal defended his
record at the head of a powerful Vatican body after being
placed under investigation by Italian prosecutors as part
of a sweeping corruption scandal >>
more AFP |
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Barack Obama's campaign promise
of change did not include a pledge to transform American conservatism.
But one of his presidency's major legacies may be a revolution
on the American right in which older, more secular forms of
politics displace religious activism >>
more The Washington
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