Religion Dispatches
…the anti-genocide groups Enough and Not on Our Watch, as well as internet companies Google and Trellon, and DigitalGlobe satellite company. The brainchild of actor George Clooney and Enough co-founder John Prendergast, SSP has been making history ever since. (Clooney calls them “the anti-genocide paparazzi.”) The actual work is far more clinical than Clooney’s nickname suggests. But it’s this ‘just the facts’ Dragnet style that’s integral to the…
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…eir faith. Some mosques are holding open houses to dispel anxieties and welcome in non-Muslim neighbors. Meanwhile, anti-Muslim crusaders are making millions by inflaming anxiety and fear. And the Islamic Studies program at UCLA continues to languish in a suspension of incoming admissions pending reorganization. In a new survey, 15% of respondents said that information on political parties and candidates had been made available at their places of…
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…ched monks in his neighborhood, or his own bacchanalian exploits. Books of commentary, known as “glosses,” included conversations among different commentators across time that surrounded a central text, such as a Bible passage. The wisdom of the rabbis or Christian sages would be preserved through decades and centuries, with new commentators sometimes being added as successive copies were produced. Over time, the original contexts for these commen…
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…tual home for many students, staff, and distinguished professors. Today the 800-member church is a diverse community of faith including people of various races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and world-views. Refugees and immigrants compose roughly one-third of the congregation. The church is heavily invested in a wide array of social ministries in the Commonwealth, the U.S., and the world. Below are excerpts from a conversation with the…
Read More…seems intrusive & counterproductive. Violates liberty + feeds persecution complex.” Rob Boston, Director of Communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said in a statement, “Government authorities have the right to subpoena pastors and even ask for sermons if there is a reasonable suspicion of wrong-doing. For example, if a pastor delivered a sermon and urged his flock to engage in illegal activities, law enforcement o…
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…ls had banned foreigners from attending and forbade donations from foreign companies. More than 120 local companies stepped up to replace funding that had come in from multinationals in the past. Here’s how the Ministry of Home Affairs explained the ban: “The Government has made clear its position on this matter. We would like to reiterate that foreign entities should not fund, support or influence events that relate to domestic issues, especially…
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…erica.” 2. America has enough money to go to space, but not enough to save Miami. “There is still much that needs to be investigated in the field of ‘climate change,’” the Trump campaign wrote. Then things got weirder. “Perhaps the best use of our limited financial resources should be in dealing with making sure that every person in the world has clean water,” Trump continued, talking about something that has little to do with climate change. “Per…
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…needlessly the way they are dying, by fear and guns,” said McBath. Schenck compared it to a disease outbreak in need of a public health response—but a spiritual disease requiring a spiritual response. “It falls to the leadership of the community as much as the membership, but especially the leadership,” he said. “That is, pastors in the pulpit dealing with this question and demonstrating how it contradicts the Christian life and message.” The Armo…
Read More…people for “therapies” that can destroy them psychologically, while buying tickets to Toscano’s shows might result in some good belly laughs, but no pressure to convert. What makes this story so shameful, though, is how the true message is completely glossed over in the pursuit of finding out who is “right” and who is “wrong.” Both Wyler and Toscano are Christian men who were given the message early on in their lives that being gay or lesbian was…
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…ing also ignored the very same problem when it was predominantly the LGBTQ community taking the brunt of that epidemic. Oh yeah, and 45 hasn’t paid income taxes in like 18 years. Is that the reason he wasn’t on the guest list? It is easy to recognize his genius, transforming suburban pocket change into white ONE bracelets into millions in aid for the poorest. Somehow he convinced corporate dollars they would be cooler if they were colo(red). But S…
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