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Keeping the “Southern” in Southern Baptist Convention

By Paul Harvey

…” The “take action” portion of the Commission’s website urges followers to contact Congress on the full panoply of issues that preoccupy the Republican right, representing a virtual scorecard of the Senate Republican leadership’s agenda—including urging support (last summer) for the “cut, cap, and balance” budget proposal put forward by House Republicans, and urging Congress to “stop the EPA power grab” (referring to proposals to limit carbon diox…

The Fire Next Time: Tibetan Protests Spread

By Megan Sweas

…empa Tsering, the official representative of the Dalai Lama, says more than 1,000 gathered in front of the United Nations’ office to mark the anniversary of the 1959 rebellion in Tibet against China’s People’s Liberation Army. “The emotions are much stronger—the sense of concern, the sense of anxiety, the urgency,” Tsering says. “You have your fellow beings torturing themselves… So when this is happening in Tibet, of course people here feel very i…

To Pray or Not to Pray

By Sarah Posner

…America released a statement this morning calling on its supporters to “to contact their governors and ask that they stand up for all Americans, regardless of religion or worldview, by rejecting Perry’s invitation to this divisive, extremist-sponsored event and ask elected officials to work on solutions to substantive problems that face all Americans.” “Calling upon all Americans to embrace Perry’s personal belief system is an insult to the millio…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…cho throughout Enlightenment culture. When Napoleon’s army invaded Egypt in 1798, the Muslim world’s moment of “first contact” with the modern West, its better-read officers would have known Condorcet’s Progress of the Human Mind. Published just three years earlier, it singled out Islam among the world’s religions as “the simplest in its dogmas, the least absurd in its practices, and the most tolerant in its principles.” Faith in progress was axio…

Why Atheists Should Fight For Establishment of State Religion

By Shanny Luft

….” Hemant Mehta’s popular blog, Friendly Atheist, called on his readers to contact their representatives and demand that they “do everything in their power to make sure this bill never sees the light of day.” As it turned out, Mehta’s readers needn’t have bothered, since the national backlash against the North Carolina resolution led state legislators to permanently shelve it. The battle was over in days, and none of the soldiers in this war learn…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…me available for popular use. The Internet Explorer browser was launched in 1995, and the Palm Pilot first appeared in 1996. When John Paul first took office, SMS (texting) and Google were still several years in the future. Use of the Internet in the early nineties for most people consisted largely of acquiring plane tickets, reading relatively static documents, and emailing acquaintances. By 2004, the year before John Paul died, search engines h…

Benedict’s Painful Legacy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…on the margins of the Catholic Church, the legacy Benedict began shaping in 1980 as Cardinal Ratzinger, when he was named as Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faithful (the office formerly known as the Inquisition), and which he solidified during a mere eight years as Bishop of Rome is seen as something far more complex and troubling. UC Riverside professor Jennifer Scheper Hughes, who has studied Benedict’s reaction to liberation…

LDS Church Launches New Website Calling for Greater Openness and Understanding on LGBT Issues

By Joanna Brooks

…little too late, but I think it’s never too late. Had this message been out 10 or 12 years ago, my parents would have reacted very differently. I could have said, ‘Hey, sit down with me and watch the [LDS Church] apostles say not to reject your child.’ And now I can say to my local bishop: ‘Whether you like it or not, I’m coming to church. You don’t have to give me a calling. As soon as I become a full tithe payer, I want to start attending LDS te…

A Superhuman Spirituality: Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

By Beatrice Marovich

…ed odd to the notorious scholar of myth and religion, Mircea Eliade. In his 1957 book Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries, he argued that there is something about the human connection with non-human animals that reveals a kind of nostalgia for Eden before the fall, a paradise. Eliade believed that human individuals who were able to “befriend” animals, to speak what he called the “language of the animals,” might be capable of accessing an almost superhuma…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…tive wanted to close the meeting with his favorite verse of Scripture: Luke 12:48, “For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.” For her, that moment of disconnect between the Christian values the executives professed to uphold and the reality she experienced at work was the last straw. “Right there I started praying for the Lord to expose these things in Wal-Mart.” Not Supposed to Live in Poverty Kim Bobo of Interfaith Wor…