Religion Dispatches
…e which religious institutions are ‘religious enough’ to merit protection of their religious liberty.” In Seattle, it would appear, parishes are asserting liberty from instructions (or at least strong suggestions) by the hierarchy, and in a season when the Seattle Archdiocese is asking for support in its Annual Catholic Appeal fundraising drive….
Read More…struggle for Christian values,” Dodon indicated. “The Orthodox Church is a most authoritative institute of Moldovan society today.” Australia: debates shift to religious rights and next priorities for LGBT movement With marriage equality in effect, debate has shifted to the question of religious exemptions. From The Sydney Morning Herald’s Eryk Bagshaw: The Greens will use Phillip Ruddock’s review of religious freedoms to build momentum for an Aus…
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…ion course. When I first began to teach on the topic, my students, for the most part, approached the suggestion that certain drugs may occasion experiences that resemble experiences we deem ‘religious’ with skepticism. Most, having come from religious backgrounds, been taught that drugs and religion simply don’t mix, a suspicion that not only tracked with broader sociocultural and political assumptions about psychedelics, but one that consigned th…
Read More…all honesty that his piece yesterday in the Huffington Post was about the most egregious thing he’s published in a long, long while. It’s like a primer in all the ways Wallis’ approach to religion and politics is flawed. It’s so textbook, in fact, that I think I’ll dispense with a conventional review and just list all the howlers for you, in no particular order: A Commitment To “Compromise”: Those of us who have worked hard to find some common gr…
Read More…d that as he drove home from the border, Mr. Zodhiates tried to call a cellphone number registered to Liberty Counsel, an evangelical legal group. That cellphone number has sometimes been used by Mathew D. Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, dean of the Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Va., and a leader of Ms. Miller’s defense team. The RICO filed by Jenkins includes information that RD readers learned last year from Sarah Posner’s…
Read More…uston, Seattle, Cleveland, Twin Cities, and Santiago, Chile. More than 140 Mormons are expected to march in Santiago alone. It is striking to think that it was four years ago this month that the LDS Church issued a letter to be read to California congregations urging members to full engagement in support of Proposition 8, setting into motion a headline-grabbing Mormon campaign to end civil same-sex marriage in California. Since then, Mormons for M…
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…often cooperates with major institutional investors in the responsible investor movement such as the AFL-CIO, the New York City Pension Fund, and others. In explaining the role of the broader, and evolving, company profiles related to climate risk, ICCR points to the company profile of the Illinois-based pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories, which has a high “carbon footprint” relative to other companies in the pharmaceutical sector. But it ha…
Read More…Vietnam after his fight was shot down.” Obama videos include “Obama is the most liberal Senator in the US Senate”; “Sen. Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergarten children”; “Sen. Obama’s strange assortment of friends.” ++++++++++ More on Sarah Palin’s Religious Affiliations Just when you thought that there was nothing else to discover about Sarah Palin’s religious affiliations, along comes Talk2Action’s Bruce Wilson with another video ex…
Read More…y. In 1995, two members of the Ku Klux Klan burnt Mt. Zion to the ground almo*]}*st exactly 20 years ago to the day of last month’s blaze. Once again Mt. Zion has been reduced to ashes, but the FBI says the likely cause of last month’s fire there was a lightning strike, not hatred. Intuitively, the smoke smells like a hate crime, a violent act meant to intimidate the African-American population. But is it? At the outset, the obvious needs to be stated…
Read More…nced recently that they were hiring Christiane Amanpour to front This Week most sane, intelligent people thought this was a good idea. She has a degree in journalism, traveled throughout most of the world, met with a fair number of international leaders, and covered some of the most challenging stories of the last decade with fairness and accuracy. There was a sense that perhaps ABC was treating the news like a serious business again, as opposed t…
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