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Ban on Female Genital Cutting in Somaliland is Progress, But Success Relies on Working with Religious Leaders

…plan is forthcoming from government and civil society, though the role of Somalia’s government in Somaliland’s application of this fatwa remains to be seen. The fatwa has received more pointed criticism from the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA), who argue that since it only bans the more severe type 2 and type 3 forms of FGC, the fatwa actually gives religious legitimation to type 1, even though the practice exists outs…

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I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?

…at Mass, Sarah now attends one of St. Monica’s morning Masses, whose more somber style turns out to be a better fit anyway. “Even if you’re completely over it and with somebody else, it’s not conducive to quiet prayer,” Sarah says. In this sense, dating through church might be riskier for the more devout. Of course, as Cynthia Kron, who runs the L.A.-based singles ministry Catholics Click, points out: this is the very group that cares most about…

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Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

…ents and their emotive power were key ingredients to the spectacle. It was something to be seen, something to be felt. At the Boulder rally this past weekend, much was familiar to anyone who followed PK during the ’90s. There was Coach Mac himself, who had returned in 2008 as Chairman and CEO, along with his old friend, Raleigh Washington, now PK’s President. There was Tony Evans too, the Dallas-based pastor who, back in the day, incensed the move…

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Dining with Dawkins in the Humanist Bosom

…eschooling moms. The banquet was served cafeteria style on two long tables somewhat like a church potluck, though the food was all catered and it did not include any casseroles. The secular humanists lined up like Lutherans for the food and heaped their plates with overlapping mounds of meat, starch and vegetables like Baptists. Some of them must have had church backgrounds, however, because more than a few headed straight for the dessert table an…

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For God or for Fame? The Making of a Teenage Bomber

…ey had never even met Mohamud. “He ruined it for everybody,” a 24-year-old Somali Portlander told The Oregonian. Another Somali-American employed at the city of Portland’s Office of Human Relations said, “As a Somali, it’s, ‘Oh, my God, one more thing we’ll be remembered for.’”  Five Choices, if You’re a Muslim Media images of Muslims do not only shape the experiences of Muslims in this country; they also shape non-Muslims’ experiences of Muslims….

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A Somewhat Cynical Take On The Future And Soul Of Evangelicalism

…first preaching gig: Those gathered will not necessarily oppose Trump and some may even be friendly to some of his policies, said Darrell Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary, who is also helping to organize the event. But organizers said evangelicals need to return their focus to the term’s true definition: a person who believes in the authority of the Bible, salvation through Jesus’ work on the cross, personal conversion and the need for evangel…

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Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

…ment beckons! Others accused Goodchild of profiteering on stupidity, while some posters kept their insults simple—“u r all nutters,” read one; “light love peace f**ing morons,” read another. Interestingly, though, some believers were beginning to reinterpret the message, even before its failure. One poster, Carolyn from Arizona, put it this way: THANK YOU BLOSSOM! I will never have a way to repay you this wonderful feeling of love I have felt thro…

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Every Homo Reptilia is Somebody’s Sister: Doctor Who Part VI

…rtainly be someone’s offspring, someone’s sibling, someone’s parent, or in some other way someone significant to someone else. As a survival mechanism we have a tendency to forge relationships of blood, friendship, or ideology, and then engage in competition with others who are at best more distantly related, and in some fashion “different” from us. It is for pointing out how morality based on such allegiances breaks down that I appreciate the par…

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Where Christianity and Islam Collide

…right now is the site of yet another proxy war, different from the one in Somalia, but with reminiscent undertones. In Somalia, the Shabaab do the bidding of the broader Al Qaeda network and are supported by this global movement. In Abyei, Sudan, the on again, off again local warring parties—Arab, nomadic cattleherders and sedentary black Christians and atheists—are, as Griswold writes, “pawns of their respective governments,” former warring part…

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What’s the Problem With a Good Placebo?

…n experimentation in diverse cultures. There may be scientific reasons why some of these CAM therapies work, just as some of what is practiced under the rubric of Western, physicalist medicine is not really evidence-based, but an ongoing experiment with only probabilistic results and unknown longterm consequences. There may be some important discoveries for science to sift out from the enormous diversity of traditional medications and procedures….

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