Search for "VIPREG2024 1xbet india promo code Central African Republic"

Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again

By Peter Laarman

…s should be seen as an ally and not an enemy. A Better Atonement has been promoted as good reading for Lent, when the meaning of the crucifixion is especially on the minds of serious Christians. But it can and should be read at any time by anyone who’s even considering whether “that old-time religion” isn’t quite good enough any more. What I started out writing, churlishly and petulantly, is that I could only surmise that the market for books li…

CPCs Hire Christians Only With Federal Funds? Thank Obama

By Sarah Posner

…nt.” Yet most, if not all, of the centers maintain that Christian faith is central to their mission. Many are affiliated with Care Net, which describes itself as a “Christ-centered ministry whose mission is to promote a culture of life within our society in order to serve people facing unplanned pregnancies and related sexual issues.” Others are affiliated with Heartbeat International, which says it “does not promote birth control” because its “po…

United Methodist Church Votes Against Israel Divestment

By Shalom Goldman

…h brothers and sisters who were so instrumental in the fight against South African apartheid are not yet ready to reckon with the apartheid nature of Israel and its current government. And I am enormously concerned that raising this issue will cause heartache to some in the Jewish community with whom I have worked closely and successfully for decades. But I cannot ignore the Palestinian suffering I have witnessed, nor the voices ofthose courageous…

Violence of the Lambs: The Legacy of Anti-Choice Extremist Father Norman Weslin

By Kathryn Joyce

…ted in 2009) praised him as a visionary who was “ahead of his time” in his promotion of nonviolent civil disobedience. In May 2009, a 78-year-old Weslin came into the national spotlight after years of relative obscurity when he became the face of the large-scale anti-abortion protests at Notre Dame surrounding President Obama’s commencement address. Looking confused—Weslin was moved to a care facility for Alzheimer’s patients in nearby Michigan a…

World Congress of Families Meets, Seeks a New Dark Ages

By Gillian Kane

…access without parental consent (youth rights versus parental rights was a central theme of many conference presentations). The PP’s promise to replace a required public school class—which includes instruction on respect for human rights and sexual diversity, among other topics—with one that would exclude “contents that could be used for ideological indoctrination,” drew high praise from participants. What emerged after three days was a clear tens…

Theology Fail in Christian Statement on Israel, Judaism, Palestine

By Adam Gregerman

…eople and a culture,” yet the authors pointedly omit religious expression. Central aspects of Judaism (such as election and covenant) that might buttress claims to the land and clash with Palestinian claims are therefore minimized or denied. Even when the authors direct their polemic against Christian Zionists, they largely cast them in a supporting role of aiding the Jews against whom they mount their harshest critique. Building Christian support…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…ur-year term, by 2016 we will have the United States of Islam. D’Souza, an Indian immigrant, spends a considerable amount of time at the beginning of the movie showing that racism is no longer a big problem in America (before jamming into a whiplash-inducing reverse when he concludes that Obama only won by working Americans’ racism to his advantage). The premise of the film is that we can’t perceive the president’s values without understanding tho…

Only The Good Die Young: The Moral Universe of Game of Thrones

By George Schmidt

…played Boromir in the film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, plays the central protagonist of the first season—in so far as a protagonist can exist in such a series. In place of the aggressive and easily corrupted Boromir, Bean cultivates an honorable and selfless highborn in his portrayal of Lord Eddard Stark, the newly appointed Hand of the King. If there is a clear paradigm for understanding the distinction between Tolkien’s Christian ideal…

The Magic of the Higgs Boson Particle

By Yoni Pasternak

…ield works its black magic through—what else?—a particle. This boson is so central to the state of physics today,” Lederman explained, “so crucial to our final understanding of the structure of matter, yet so elusive, that I have given it a nickname: the God Particle.” Lederman even cites a passage from “The Very New Testament, 11:1” that reads as follows: And the Lord came down to see the accelerator, which the children of men builded. And the Lo…

The Truth about Catholics and Condoms

By Jon O?Brien

…, the issue of condom use to prevent the spread of HIV will certainly be a central topic of debate. For many involved, the statement that Pope Benedict XVI made in 2010 still resonates. In a great leap forward for the Catholic Church, he said that using condoms to prevent the spread of HIV can be “a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way, of living sexuality.” The fact that it came from the Pope meant not only that Cath…