Religion Dispatches
…dating aids (“Meet Christian Singles”—obviously something that should be done sooner than later), RaptureReady.com’s front page features a slew of bad-news articles with headlines that almost make you wish for the End Times to come already! A savvy entrepreneur, Strandberg has bought up a number of Internet addresses including AntiAntichrist, Tribulationus and RaptureMe, in case RaptureReady.com crashes from the traffic after the Rapture. As of No…
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…rite off populist rage as misguided, or irrelevant, or unhelpful. Here is one number worth crunching politically. To continue to argue in this fashion as unemployment figures surpass the double-digit mark nationwide is to render your own economic analysis misguided and irrelevant. Where there is rage, there is often a reason. The riots in Paris and Athens and elsewhere could easily be a harbinger of far greater populist unrest right here at home….
Read More…lping students understand, analyze, critique and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught.” As always, since intelligent design was ruled unconstitutional in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the introduced bills rely on such creationist code words as “teaching the controversy,” “academic freedom,” or “critical analysis.” However, in the case of Florida,…
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…king the growing town. Indeed, it was on the eve of the Nauvoo Temple’s cornerstone ceremony, on April 5, 1841, that Smith likely entered his first plural marriage. On that day, Smith and his bride, Louisa Beman, who was disguised in men’s clothing, held a secret rendezvous in a grove of trees just outside the city. By the end of the year, Smith was sealed—the Mormon term for married for eternity—to at least two more women. Over the next eighteen…
Read More…agitators showered me with insults on social networks, harassed me on the phone and at events, and even complained to my place of work. On 24 August 2014, Ukrainian Independence Day, myself and some friends who were in a picket on Malaya Sadovaya street was physically attacked by activists belonging to the pro-government movement “NOD” [National Liberation Movement]. They said that I was a “leading Ukro-Fascist and organiser of a Maidan in St. Pe…
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…ay experience of the internet—whether social media or the omnipresent smartphone or Pokémon Go. He’s drawn instead to online addicts and people who are convinced they have a high sensitivity to the radio waves that transmit the internet. One everyday scene, however, so fascinated Herzog that it earned a place in Lo and Behold. Behind an image of Tibetan monks staring into their phones with the Chicago skyline behind them Herzog asks “Have the monk…
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…ill go to Mina, etc. There is still no address for the hotels, but a local phone number. There is also information about processing customs at Jeddah, meeting the tour guide, and information that says “the group” will proceed to Makkah—which means the first will have to wait for the last person, which is the beginning of feeling like you are a group. They even include suggestions to “get to know” your fellow travelers. I still had no idea what wer…
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…practices, youth centers, and the psychological training they offer to the next generation. Before publication, we reached out to all speakers mentioned here. Only two responded, both essentially making the same points they’d made in their conference lectures. “People who experience their same-sex attractions as incompatible with their life goals have the right to the same autonomy and opportunities as those who do not,” writes Carolyn Pela, who a…
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…ently on display at the Staples Center. During this year’s All-Star game, one team wore Kobe’s number 24, while the other wore number 2, Gianna’s uniform number. The MVP award, given this year to Los Angeles Clippers’ star forward Kawhi Leonard, was renamed permanently for Kobe Bryant. Pregame and half-time shows centered on Kobe, his family, and his impact on the sport of basketball and society. The collective grief and bereavement displayed by f…
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…r the coherence they perceive in the Universe. The only place I draw the line is where someone takes their faith, including Muslims, to close off the exploration of goodness and grace in the universe from another. I came across an excellent quote the other day from Ibn Qayyim, a medieval thinker “the root of Islam is “love for God, intimacy with Him, and yearning to encounter Him.” Obviously there is no room for petty prejudices in that perspectiv…
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