Is Christianity Simply About God Entering the Uterus of a Jewish Virgin?
…e caricatures offered up as if they were the truth. When intelligent people indulge in the latter, they’ve let the lampooning spirit carry them too far….
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RDPulpit: Ahmadinejad Gives Another Victory to the Israeli Right
…e that the God of all peoples wants all to be treated as equally valuable and as embodiments of God’s image on Earth, the failure of Muslims and Arab to disassociate themselves more publicly and forcefully is itself a problem that must be addressed with honesty and public confrontation, in a spirit of mutual respect and caring for each other. To do less would be to dishonor the God of the universe. We in the Jewish world who continually and public…
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The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture
…ired word of God. In its extreme form, KJVO Baptists argue that the divine spirit breathed through Wycliffe and Tyndale (but not Douai) and culminated in the foreordained event of the 1611 “Authorized” English Bible. A strange conclusion to draw about an anti-Calvinist Bible. For those who were not tempted by the Episcopalian or fundamentalist options, the need for new English Bibles continued to be felt. Now they are legion: the New International…
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RDBook: Wifely Submission and Christian Warfare
…echoes this, arguing that women’s challenge is to influence their husbands spiritually, through “fearless tranquility and holiness and prayer.” Prayerful women, he writes, are using their God-ordained power over men, and this enables them to “exert far more power in this world than all political leaders put together.” For those unmoved by rote Christian platitudes about the power of prayer moving mountains, Piper offers practical information as we…
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V-Day: An Arrow in the Heart
…Many a Romantic artist has said the same: the self must clear out for the spirit of creativity to enter. Loss of self is perceived as fulfillment of self. Now enter the lover in love, long venerated by poets and rhapsodes of all stripes, starting with the lyrical Lesbian, Sappho herself. The lover who tries to leave reason in control, she warns, does not follow her god to the end. It is the very chaos of love, the swirl of love, that may link our…
Read MorePresident Receives Mixed Messages from Catholic Hierarchy
…continue to find in their impressive religious and political heritage the spiritual values and ethical principles needed to co-operate in the building of a truly just and free society, marked by respect for the dignity, equality and rights of each of its members, especially the poor, the outcast and those who have no voice. At a time when so many of our brothers and sisters throughout the world yearn for liberation from the scourge of poverty, hu…
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RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda
…40 years of Roman Catholic history with my feminist identity intact and my spirit unembittered without the companionship of her work. On a couple of occasions at women’s meetings on sexual and reproductive rights, we have met, even breakfasted. In a dry midwestern voice, she lets you know you are understood and appreciated. She is one of only a few Americans who truly get the Canadian picture. Last July, the Catholic University of San Diego rescin…
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Religion in Tension on World AIDS Day
…lical Christian Rick Warren, that “Corinthians says that we are all of one spirit, and that ‘if one part suffers, every part suffers with it.’ But it also says, ‘if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.’ On this World AIDS day, it is the stories of overcoming, and not just illness, that the world needs to hear.” World AIDS Day is rife with interreligious services; and religious organizations are active internationally in both preventio…
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The Gray Lady’s Regard: Ritual and the Wedding Pages
…he Upper East Side doyennes will still make an appearance, the overarching spirit of the pages is determinedly representative. Same-sex couples and mixed-race couples, old money couples and new money couples, couples who like tennis and couples who like cooking classes—everyone is there. The reader then becomes convinced by this welcoming attitude that you, too, could marry on Block Island; that you, too, could have parents who live in Bermuda; an…
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World AIDS Day: Sacralizing Change
…elical Christian Rick Warren that “Corinthians says that we are all of one spirit, and that “if one part suffers, every part suffers with it.” But it also says, “if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” On this World AIDS day, it is the stories of overcoming, and not just illness, that the world needs to hear.” World AIDS Day is rife with interreligious services; and religious organizations are active internationally in both preventio…
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