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Walk the Walk: Honoring Common Ground on Abortion

…y to talk and to listen. When we don’t live up to that same spirit, all we manage to do is affirm every cynical instinct, every pessimistic expectation that is so pervasive in the politics of abortion and that keeps us from achieving anything together. And our responsibility to uphold these ideals doesn’t end when the conference is over. There is no doubt that we, like others with a stake in the debate, will fall short of our own expectations and…

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The Pretzel Logic of Religion and Politics

…ge—it’s a rhetorical approach that reminds me of Mitt Romney, whom George Will called a “pretzel candidate” this weekend for “straddling” issues from ethanol to TARP. Perhaps Romney’s own rhetorical management efforts are a remnant of Mormonism’s longer bi-directional struggle to win acceptance in the American mainstream while maintaining a tactical form of theocracy….

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Murdoch’s Anti-Semitic Tweet

…subset of the people who are for him or against him, who he either has to manage or isolate. Along with his open dislike of Muslims—once, he explained to me his theory about how Muslims often married close cousins, therefore depressing their general IQ—and his geopolitical views about world domination, supporting Israel, I believe, is a way to win the support of what he perceives as the good Jews. (That is, if you support him, you are a good Jew….

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Truth or Dare?

…children. I never wanted to know the sex beforehand, and for the most part managed to avoid ultrasounds even for medical reasons until the fifth child at the ripe old age of 37. Having miscarried a child just before that pregnancy and being that age, I was considered an at-risk pregnancy. So they wanted to check on the baby. We insisted we did not want to know what the sex was. So they put that reader where the head was then jumped across the litt…

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A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

…described “Christian athletes” who can glibly quote Bible verses but can’t manage to live by them. Coach, as always, was different. We both agreed that Abraham Lincoln was the greatest American, but he said that the greatest person of his generation was Mother Teresa. Like her, he lived out his Christianity in service to others. In 2005, I moved from a secular religious studies department at Cal State Northridge to a department of theological stud…

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Black Lives Matter Activists Disrupt Presidential Candidates at Activist Conference

…dential candidates would do to end unjustified police shootings of African-Americans. Some progressives thought the BLM activists were disrespectful, particularly in interrupting O’Malley and Sanders when they tried to answer the protestors’ questions. Sanders supporters in particular have been quick to point out on Twitter and elsewhere that the Vermont Senator was a civil rights activist in the 1960s, and that his populist economic platform woul…

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The Mormon Moment?

…o a future of more contests and compromises. 3.  New tensions about how to manage controversial elements of the Mormon past are emerging, thanks to the digital era. The LDS Church would like to quietly leave behind issues like polygamy; current lesson manuals, for example, do not reference multiple marriages by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. But with information about Mormon polygamy—a great deal of it prurient and designed to hurt—only a mouse-c…

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Glenn Beck’s Fox Show Gets Canned

…ry Radio Arts effective April 24, 2011. Part of his role as EVP will be to manage the partnership and serve as a liaison with the Fox News Channel. Roger Ailes said:  “Joel is a good friend and one of the most talented and creative executives in the business. Over the past four years I have consistently valued his input and advice and that will not stop as we work with him in his new role.” “Glenn Beck” is consistently the third highest rated prog…

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Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween

…and perhaps the temptation to mayhem, that the Church’s story can’t quite manage to contain? And what should faithful people do about it? The broader cultural narrative of modern Halloween continues to engage this question. So many communities have tried to de-fang Halloween by trick-or-treating only in daylight, or in explicitly self-contained environments like shopping malls or blocked off streets with an army of adult supervision, lest any gen…

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A Superhuman Spirituality: Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

…not depict them in situations that would disrupt this glory. When Pi does manage to kill a meaty fish, one that he intends to eat, Lee does not give us a visual of Pi’s blade cutting into the fish’s body. Instead, we see Pi pull a large, tidy, sushi steak onto the screen and bite into it like any “civilized” human might do in a fine Japanese restaurant. The meat that Pi eats is abstracted from its animal body. We, the viewers, do not have to face…

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