Religion Dispatches
…s a sort of biblical play and can be both enjoyable and theologically profound. But fundamentalists of all monotheist stripes are much less enamored of interactivity with the text, particularly if it invites a constructivist hermeneutics, allowing people to see their own perspectives as able to effectively shape the Bible’s meaning. Some questions to ask as The Bible Online rolls out, gleaned from an awareness of the ordinary features of game-play…
Read More…God. Cry out all who will and He will relent. #Japan‘s #earthquake http://www.google.com/url?url=http://twitter.com/lydia_fuson/status/46227101413670912&rct=j&sa=X&ei=aD16Ta7zDo2dgQfG4szVBw&sqi=2&ved=0CFYQrwcwBw&q=japanese+earthquake+and+2012&usg=AFQjCNFev7RkeZbi4eJzisU1d7ZJy8rObQ EspoOriginals Maybe the Mayans were right…. #2012 #Earthquakes #Japan #Haiti Catcasco All I’m going to say is this: if God gave one tiny dog’s scrotum about Japan h…
Read More…r Mesko reported that Obama named Henry Rivera, former head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “to run the team that will select the next [FCC] chairman. Mesko, maintaining that Rivera “is a longtime proponent of the so-called Fairness Doctrine,” reported that “Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said the Fairness Doctrine would force stations to stop addressing important policy issues”: “A Christian ra…
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…tional media and of white people of goodwill. As pictures of nonviolent protestors being brutalized by the forces of white supremacy played across television screens in America and around the world, the moral conscience of the nation was challenged. But its cold war anxieties were provoked: Was the civil rights movement a communist conspiracy? What would the rest of the world think when we preached liberty and justice abroad while denying them at…
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…out and Jehu’s gonna rise up, and we’re gonna rule and reign through President Trump and under the lordship of Jesus Christ.” ● Apostle-Prophet Bill Hamon of Florida, leads the Christian International Global Network (CIGN) which seeks to bring “a full restoration to the corporate Body of Christ of all five-fold ministry in various nations of the earth.” They seek “to help bring the Church to full restoration of all things… so that Christ Jesus ca…
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…ominations, many important apostles were not among the much better known founders, and were commissioned much later. So a reporter looking at early lists of NAR apostles (which used to be openly published) may not find the newer apostles in this way, though these leaders are nevertheless shaping contemporary religion and politics. One of these, for example, is Apostle Abby Abildness of Pennsylvania who has deeply influenced, and entered into polit…
Read More…, same-sex marriage, and gay couples adopting kids—and lo and behold Joe Biden comes out looking a lot less Catholic than Paul Ryan. Then the guide lists a bunch of “prudential judgments”—death penalty, amnesty, personal donations to charity, the child tax credit, and the border fence—and the differences between the two are just that Joe Biden gave less to charity, and Paul Ryan opposes amnesty. It’s true that Catholic social teaching is forcefull…
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…le really can be good, tolerant, and loving, despite the vitriol that surrounds us. 1) https://twitter.com/UAB_Shoob/status/793573502251044864 2) https://twitter.com/maco_nix/status/794174938475352064 3) https://twitter.com/LizWelchLive/status/794147976918642691 4) https://twitter.com/revdrjanet/status/795034285174620160 5) https://twitter.com/umjeremy/status/793906267274125312 6) https://twitter.com/leahrullman/status/795360690307530752 7) ht…
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…ones speaks for itself. (Or, strictly speaking, for God): https://twitter.com/evandeneykel/status/1324437916181999618 3. This one’s more watchable. Promise: https://twitter.com/chilledasad100/status/1324303206755741697 4. For Republicans still fuzzy on the life cycle of a vote: https://twitter.com/FixYourLife/status/1324075698793836544 5. Bi-curious Republicans: https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1324200240694648834 6. For the president in you…
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…ing grant program is facing internal complaints, after two nonprofits were denied funding in favor of two less established groups whose applications were not recommended by career DOJ officials. The groups in question, the Nevada-based Hookers for Jesus, and the South Carolina-based Lincoln Tubman Foundation, had their grants pushed through by Katharine Sullivan, head of the Orwellianly named Office of Justice Programs, against the formal recommen…
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