Religion Dispatches
…gical as they articulated a need for communal, inspirational, face-to-face contact in which they could “appear” to one another. Secondly, they talked about the nearly complete privatization of municipal public space in a way that made a deep and tragic sense. Where can you go if you don’t own something? Does a public even exist if it has no space? The great irony is that they have been called the virtual demonstration, and here they were talking a…
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…ould overtake her and the Russian Official as the primary Russian point of contact for the National Prayer Breakfast. While this sentencing memo focused on Butina’s role in the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast, Russian participation in this breakfast increased significantly the following year. Religion News Service reported that Jim Slattery, a former Democratic congressman from Kansas who maintains ties to the National Prayer Breakfast and who atte…
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…nd is not forced to believe in the existence of anything…the only organ of contact with existence is acceptance, love. That is why beauty and reality are identical. That is why joy and the sense of reality are identical.” Her idea is that something, anything—the Bible, the cross, the person slumped over there in the café or asleep on that park bench—can become more or less real depending on the degree to which we accept them, how much we are open…
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…hose to focus on Salman Rushdie. Some reports claim that Matar had been in contact with members of the Quds Force, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, who might have given him specific instructions to attack the novelist. A similar operation by the Revolutionary Guard focusing on the former US national security advisor, John Bolton, as the proposed target was recently intercepted and the murder-for-hire figure arrested. Like the planned Bolton attacker, M…
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…me, but rather moves through me—like wind—and I can only really come into contact with the world around me when I allow this to happen. To me, that’s what “the sacred” is, most poignantly: It is the fact that our deepest inner beings are enmeshed in an embrace with the broader fabric that stretches across time and distance. It’s the paradox of finding your home precisely in the flux of change and transformation, and of looking and recognizing—aga…
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…is more violence or the threat of violence. This means more police, police contact and police resources automatically means more violence because cops add their own violence to what’s already [there].” “They are the sources of violence,” they conclude. Another detail that gets me So what are police for? As I’m writing this, the Times reports that Border Patrol agents arrived earlier than previously known. But when they got there, the local Uvalde…
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…o-demographics, beliefs about the origins of homosexuals and interpersonal contact with homosexuals.” Among its findings: With respect to religiousness, there was some (albeit weak) evidence that the more involved an individual is in their religion, the more likely they are to support the laws. The probability that an individual who is actively involved in their religion will want the laws maintained is roughly 4.5 percentage points greater than t…
Read More…members may need professional counseling. When appropriate, bishops should contact LDS Social Services to identify resources to provide such counseling in harmony with gospel principles. If members feel same-gender attraction but do not engage in any homosexual behavior, leaders should support and encourage them in their resolve to live the law of chastity and to control unrighteous thoughts. These members may receive Church callings. If they are…
Read More…holic bishops in the state have also stepped up pressure on their flock to contact delegates in opposition to the measure. It seems the pressure has given some delegates reason enough to push the pause button and not make Maryland the sixth state to recognize marriage equality for its gay and lesbian citizens. It could be seen as a defeat, or a cowardly display by supporters—but Equality Maryland sees the move as an opportunity to do more educatio…
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…ilian interior he went, he was unable to find people who had not had prior contact with European explorers. His quest for the pristine Other kept rebounding back upon the interrogating European Self. “There is no way out of the dilemma,” he tells us. So Lévi-Strauss concludes the book with a long section entitled simply “Return.“” It is not just about his return to France; it is really about his return to himself. But now, it is a self that has be…
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