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Mister Rogers’ Radical Pacifist Neighborhood

…ination of saint and sinner. So writing a hagiography would have been a disservice to Rogers’s own acceptance of moral complexity. It also would have been contrary to his fierce commitment to truth-telling in constructive and positive ways. I understand that some readers will no doubt be troubled by some of the things they learn about Rogers. But if they could keep their own moral complexity in mind, perhaps that will make it easier on them. With…

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6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

…December 5, 2014. 4 Truth in Texas Textbooks, “TTT Report to Texas SBOE on Worldview World History B incl publisher response,” p. 71. URL: http://truthintexastextbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/TTT-Report-to-Texas-SBOE-on-Worldview-World-History-B-incl-publisher-response.docx. Accessed December 5, 2014. 5 Ibid., p. 38. 6 Pearson Education, “P2015_Pearson Rsp to Public Comment_World History_11_19,” p. 16. URL: http://tea.texas.gov/Curriculum_a…

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Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

…or before we ever tolerate gay people working here.” In other parts of the world, World Vision employs thousands of non-Christians. Earlier this month, World Vision’s national director in Uganda, Gilbert Kamanga, said the organization “opposes any law that fails to meet human rights standards and results in stigmatization or discrimination of any group or class of people.” “Sexual orientation of those we serve or those with whom we collaborate wit…

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Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

…example, the rapture myth. It is a terrifying story: that God so hates the world that he is about to smash it into bits with some terrible catastrophic disaster. The fact that this belief is so widely held in the most rich and powerful nation in the world has profound implications—ones that we ought to be listening very carefully to. People just scoff at these mythologies, but what we need to see when we read them carefully and sympathetically—as…

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Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

…lf being God. Everyone wants to draw a distinction because God created the world, God is not the world. They start to worry that people might start to have a misunderstanding of God if they think too highly of God’s creation. Those are lines that are drawn around God, those are lines that are drawn around nature and Creation. There’s a lot of lines. Whereas what I found in Paganism was, it’s actually mysterious the way we’re interconnected with th…

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‘Imagine Better’: Can Harry Potter Change the World?

…r members to hone the magic of their creativity in endeavoring to make the world a better place. Join our army to make the world a safer, more magical place, and let your voice be heard! The HPA organizes their efforts into campaigns designed to revolve around important cultural and political events. Their initial efforts were focused on raising awareness of genocide in Darfur. Since then, other campaigns have been dictated by the US political cal…

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Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

…stitution to an arbitrarily chosen group of people. Go on. Try it. All the world’s Chinese, all the world’s Indians, all the world’s lefthanded people, all the world’s cyclists. It might make sense for Dawkins to think he can opine on the contributions of a civilization—though Trinity College would demand you have a degree in a subject before dismissing it altogether. It makes sense too for a scientist to think science is fair ground for such a fa…

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Updated: 5 Lessons Learned from the Apocalypse Fail, Or, It’s Not the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel So-So

world destroyer and, like Buddhism, expresses a cosmic view of periods of world destruction and world renewal. Closer to home, the pan-Indian Ghost Dance movement included a prophesy that the current world would end and the whites would disappear. And let’s not forget about that Mayan calendar which many believe foretells the world’s destruction in 2012. 3. Americans are fixated on world destruction. Forget about what the religions of the world s…

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Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

…find “the creator” and at the end of the series, leaves the online virtual world for the real world, where the experiences are much more vivid, and relationships invite richer physical and emotional engagement. Maybe this is the place where the consideration of virtual religious identity ultimately brings us: We can invest ourselves in the virtual world, but only if it offers us something real in this world. We can find religious community online,…

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The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

…Fortune: The Rise of the Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean For Our World (Free Press, 2009) and Ben Simpfendorfer’s intriguing The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009). The Wide Green Smudge Simpfendorfer, fluent in Arabic and Chinese, is Chief China Economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, and has lived throughout the Middle East. He brings a casual language th…

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