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Abstinence program partners Chinese
officials with U.S. evangelicals >>
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In his latest book The Grand
Design Stephen Hawking claims that God did not create
the universe. “Spontaneous creation is the reason there
is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists,
why we exist" >>
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Today |
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Religion more important to people
in poor countries than rich, surveys reveal >>
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Today |
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Is science teaching undermined
by religious instruction in faith schools? >>
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In response to a question about
his criticisms of President Obama’s religion, the Fox
News host recently acknowledged that many U.S. Christians
may question whether his own denomination -- the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- is a Christian group.
It is incorrect to say that "most" Christians do
not view Mormons as Christians. However, many have mixed views
about Mormonism >>
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The Signpost at the Crossroads.
When it comes to politics, abortion remains at the intersection
of religion and American public life >>
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Congregations across the UK must
grasp “the big nettle” of selling off places of
worship that have become a crippling financial burden, according
to a leading bishop who said one in ten church buildings in
his diocese may have to be sold >>
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Hindu chic? From the yoga craze
to the movie Eat Pray Love >>
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Any serious effort to understand
the extraordinary influence of the Zionist power configuration
over US foreign policy must examine the presence of key operatives
in strategic positions in the government and the activities
of local Zionist organizations affiliated with mainstream
Jewish organizations and religious orders >>
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The huge size of the rally held
in Washington at the weekend – where several hundred
thousand people turned up to hear the Fox News talk show host
Glenn Beck announce that America was "turning back to
God" – provides further disturbing proof, if any
were needed, of the growing popularity of the hard right >>
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Glenn Beck may be unlikely leader
for conservative Christians >>
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Post |
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Historic Italian Protestant churches
agree to bless same-sex couples >>
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Reactionary ranks of Roman Catholic
hierarchy make change from within unlikely >>
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It
is Inception’s main concern with what is “real”
and what isn’t that offers the most to scholars of religion
and film, and specifically those with an interest in the wisdom
of the mystical traditions >>
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During an interview on "Fox
News Sunday," which was filmed after Saturday's rally,
Beck claimed that Obama "is a guy who understands the
world through liberation theology, which is oppressor-and-victim"
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The relevance of a doctor's religion
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The various segments of the Christian
population maintain divergent support levels for both Congress
and the president. The religious segments of the voter population
most firmly supportive of the Democrats and of President Obama
are the Skeptics (i.e., atheists and agnostics) and people
from non-Christian faiths >>
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Pope
and Devil: the Vatican's archives and the Third Reich.
Wolf has written a very important book. It does not explain
the "silence" of Pius XII, though it certainly exonerates
him of the charge that he was in any way sympathetic to the
regime in Germany. It also reveals a man with a misplaced
confidence in his own competence >>
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How Mother Teresa's work spurred
growth of 'voluntourism' >>
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Science Monitor |
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Interfaith divorce. "The
fear people have is that if my child is raised in the other
parent’s religion, then the child will grow closer to
the other parent," says one interfaith family mediator"
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"Something that is beyond
man is happening," Mr. Beck told the crowd, in what was
part religious revival and part history lecture. "America
today begins to turn back to God" >>
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Times |
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Conservative Anglican bishops
pressed the head of the worldwide church over homosexuality
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God's
battalions: Fighting for the cross. Stark provides an account
of the crusades perfectly fitted for the Fox News audience.
Using dozens of fascinating primary sources that are being
used here for the first time, as well as traditional historical
sources, Housley attempts to portray what it was like to be
a crusader >>
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When I was interviewed in The
Austin American Statesman about my book Jesus Died for This?:
A Satirist’s Search for the Risen Christ I was asked
“Are you hopeful that Christians are beginning to seek
out what you consider more “nourishing” forms
of Christianity?” >>
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The planned mosque and Islamic
center blocks from ground zero got a new boost yesterday from
a coalition of supporters that includes families of victims
of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks >>
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Daily Tribune |
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The
book of Atheist sprituality is particularly valuable
in that it requires theists, and
Christians in particular, to re-examine their position >>
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Armed Christian militia pulls
support for 'Burn a Quran' event >>
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There are truths that the dominant
culture sees as subversive: on life, the family, sexuality.
American archbishop Chaput explains why, and calls Christians
to a great battle of resistance. "Only the truth can
set men free" >>
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Church and state colluded to
free 'IRA bomber priest' >>
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The destruction of Pompei in
79AD. Did Jews see this as God's revenge for the Roman's destroying
the Jerusalem Temple nine years earlier? >>
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Archaeology Review |
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Why is it so hard for Obama to
shake the Muslim myth? Some of the 1 in 5 Americans who believe
that President Obama is a Muslim are adamant in their convictions,
and continue refuting the notion – and evidence –
that Obama is a practicing Christian >>
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Many conservative Christians
who believe that life begins at conception are especially
concerned about the growing number of frozen embryos and are
divided about what to do. Destroying them or donating them
for research is considered unethical, yet the possibility
of embryo adoption also raises serious questions that have
no easy answers >>
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The Church on a justice mission.
On the front lines of the battle against sex trafficking and
forced prostitution >>
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Culture |
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The justice generation. Young
people are drawn to injustices, and this is an opportunity
for life-shaping discipleship >>
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Journal |
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Muslims, fundamentalists, and
the fear of the dangerous other in American culture >>
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Religion & Society |
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Iraqi bishop says U.S. betrayed
country, Christians suffer most >>
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Catholic Reporter |
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Far from Ground Zero, other plans
for mosques run into vehement opposition >>
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Post |
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The Catholic Church should stay
out of the gay adoption debate >>
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Theological
engagements with the natural sciences have tended to avoid
wrestling with Christological doctrines like incarnation and
atonement. Celia Deane-Drummond’s new book, Christ
and Evolution, is one of a few contemporary exceptions
to this general trend
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Will technology change what
it means to be human? "Computers will match us in emotional
intelligence, which includes our whole moral system,"
says inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil >>
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International Allegations that
Catholics are unsuited to public office because they are "under
orders" from the Pope buzz around like a fly that refuses
to be swatted. In the land of the "constitutional separation
of Church and State" it dogged President Kennedy in his
day; it nearly derailed the presidential candidature of John
Kerry in 2004; and it has now been raised as a reason why
the next United Kingdom ambassador to the Holy See should
not be - as the Government seems to intend, unwisely but for
other reasons - a Roman Catholic political grandee >>
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Vicar tells churchgoers to swear
more >>
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Christian Smith and Melinda Denton,
principal investigators for the National Study of Youth and
Religion, are seeing an alternative faith in American teenagers,
one that "feeds on and gradually co-opts if not devours"
established religious traditions. This faith, called Moralistic
Therapeutic Deism, "generally does not and cannot stand
on its own," so its adherents are affiliated with traditional
faith communities but unaware that they are practicing a very
different faith than historic orthodox Christianity >>
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Annihilation of the "self,"
divinization of nature, rejection of a personal God. The cornerstones
of the Japanese culture >>
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The response to Islam from the
write wing >>
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In the five years since the 2005
earthquake devastated parts of Pakistan, not one year has
gone by in which the people of Pakistan have not suffered
from disaster, say on-the-ground staff from a US-based global
churches' relief and development agency working in the country
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A growing number of Americans say Obama is Muslim >>
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The Tea Party movement is an
influential force in electoral politics this year as it channels
widespread populist anger over the weak economy and a host
of other issues, such as taxes, immigration and the role of
government. But how friendly is the Tea Party to Christian
ideals, especially those embraced by Christian conservatives?
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Richard Dawkins: 'faith schools
should not be allowed to opt out of religious education' >>
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The true story of the religious right >>
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Atheist Philip Pullman, the best-selling
author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, finds bishops in
agreement when discussing his latest book The Good Man
Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ >>
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Religious minorities in Indonesia
push back >>
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With mosque remarks, Obama purposefully
walks against the traffic >>
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Post |
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Religious tolerance in America
then and now >>
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Post |
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Christian students to defend
Israel abroad. Knesset lobby recruits Christian 'ambassadors'
to counter pro-Palestinian campaigns against Israel on overseas
campuses >>
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How
do you capture a spiritual pilgrim's faltering steps toward
faith? Apparently the answer, at least for the writers/directors
of Eat Pray Love, is you don't. We see Julia Roberts
cross-legged and om-ing in a dingy ashram and some lovely
pastoral locations, but we never really get a sense of her
inner journey to peace and faith and joy >>
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Obama muddles his mosque message
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Post |
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Nearly one-quarter of US adults
(23%) moved from one faith or faith tradition to another and
an additional 12% of adults had shifted affiliations but had
not altered their Protestant orientation >>
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Worshippers wary of a leader
who speaks from head not heart >>
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The marketing of liberal religion
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Liberal Religion |
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Protest in Jakarta over church
attacks >>
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Herald |
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TV show about Jesus, from an Islamic view, is canceled >>
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International outrage greeted
the news from Iran that a woman accused of adultery there
had been sentenced to be stoned to death. Sentence was postponed
but the woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, could now face
execution by hanging. The case illustrates just how wide is
the gulf between civilised standards of behaviour accepted
in the West and the brutal way the social norms of “honour”
are enforced in other cultures, especially those with an ultra-conservative
version of Islam >>
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Sacrilage at Ground Zero. America
is a free country where you can build whatever you want --
but not anywhere >>
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Post |
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A pastoral response to Ann Rice "quitting" Christianity
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Post |
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The onward march of secularism
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While
the term experientia serves as a catchall phrase for the variety
of religious experiences in ancient texts in Judaism and Christianity,
it could as aptly be applied to the contributors themselves.
They represent a diverse group of international scholars
approaching religious experiences embedded in these ancient
texts from a number of
distinct disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology, and
even neurobiology, just to name
a few >>
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God and guns seem to be popular
themes in 2010 campaign ads, sometimes popping up in close
proximity >>
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The
author’s central thesis in The Christian Imagination:
Theology and the origens of race is that “Christianity
in the Western world lives and moves within a diseased social
imagination.” Essentially, this is a result of racial
stereotyping and a consistent misunderstanding and minimising
of the theological power of white and black identities >>
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Imagine
that after you read scripture and proclaim, "This is
the Word of the Lord," someone greets you with the question,
"Were you really identifying your words with those of
God?" What would you say next? Kevin Vanhoozer's Remythologizing
Theology helps answer this question >>
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“The organizers built support
among some Jewish and Christian groups, and even among some
families of 9/11 victims, but did little to engage with likely
opponents. More strikingly, they did not seek the advice of
established Muslim organizations experienced in volatile post-9/11
passions and politics” >>
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All eyes on the Pope as he visits ‘Protestant
Britannia’ >>
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Let's drop the bomb >>
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Twelve years after her return
to Catholicism, Rice said she still believed in God, but that,
"In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse
to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth
control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular
humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life"
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