Religion Dispatches
…ess you count the gremlins who got into our software stash and brought the site down over the weekend. Our server company* let us know that eerie goings on had compromised their ability to re-vivify the site so we summoned a coder (contemporary shaman) who infused it with borrowed life. And so RD carries on. With only the slightest hint of zombie in its affect. Here, in the order in which the Ouija board instructed us to offer it, is an assortment…
Read More…one wonders what he has concluded about science. To be sure, his campaign site only says that he attends a Catholic church, not that he is Catholic. Here’s what’s confusing, though. David Brat is someone who, as recently as 2011, published an article in which he describes himself as an “orthodox Calvinist.” He lists four different denominational affiliations on his CV. Yet on his campaign website, the only affiliation he indicates is Catholic—eve…
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…he then dwindling, but still active, Israeli peace movement. Arun Gandhi visited the Palestinian Territories and Israel in August of 2004. His sympathies were clearly with the Palestinians, though he also visited Israel. This is consistent with the political position of the Indian Left. In his visit to Israel Gandhi met with peace activists and Knesset members on the Israeli Left and he recalled that visit in his Washington Post/Newsweek blog. Gan…
Read More…e top of the stairs is the impressive, white stupa, the centerpiece of the site, and the scene of the crime. Older stupas are lined up a short walk away. On good days, the mountain draws dozens of visitors. But vendors say that since the theft, few see the point of coming. “I ask people to buy my lotus flowers, incense and candles, but they mock me. They do not know what to buy and pray for, because the relic was stolen,” said a 23-year-old woman…
Read More…A pint of Ben and Jerry’s? Why are the bishops afraid to mention sex? This site is meant for married couples, so sex (as long as it is contraception-free and open to baby making) is perfectly acceptable in their eyes. I did a little perusing on the rest of the site and found only three articles on sex – one of which was entitled “Not tonight, honey.” This leads me to believe that this sex-phobia of the Catholic hierarchy extends well past premarit…
Read More…flyers to city churches and published articles available on many church websites encouraging worshippers to volunteer and donate to the Coalition for Marriage. “Vote No in the Postal Plebiscite on Marriage,” reads an entry in this weekend’s bulletin at St Anthony of Padua Parish Clovelly. “A change in the marriage law has consequences for freedom of religion, including the ability of individuals to live out their faith in everyday life, for Priest…
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…the Al-Aqsa Mosque is achieved [the Al-Aqsa Mosque is located on the same site in Old Jerusalem as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism]. On the other hand, although in much smaller numbers, there are Jews who regard the very presence of the mosques as an obstacle to the redemption of the people of Israel. A larger number hold a Kahanist worldview, according to which—irrespective of the conflict with the Palestinians—the Jewish state sho…
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…1992. And in times of economic crisis, any way to create a new pilgrimage site provides a welcome boost to the local economy, whether in Poland or in Tuscany. But the Church is not doing it, this time; a museum of modern science is. Galileo’s relics are to be housed, not in a cathedral, but in a public museum. That is why I am not sure whether this is a story about religion, or about science, or about art. Perhaps it is a story about something el…
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…pped from the pages of a disgruntled/delusional white supremacist blog/Web site. Neither! In fact, they come from the keyboards over at Lou Sheldon’s shop, the long-lived Traditional Values Coalition. So here’s a troika of recent stories from the TVC : “Obamunist Nominee Gave U.S. Port To Communists”—How Leon Panetta, Obama’s appointee to head the CIA, “is the greatest gift Obama could give to Islamic terrorists around the globe”; “‘Czars And The…
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…t Rittenhouse. https://twitter.com/grandmagrit/status/1300819367844810758?s=20 https://twitter.com/AprilDRyan/status/1300513488113225728?s=20 https://twitter.com/Speak4Tomorrow/status/1300084878567002118?s=20 Meanwhile, GiveSendGo cofounder Jacob Wells defended his decision to host the fundraiser, and told Stone, “as a platform, everything we do and what our platform delivers is Christ-centered.” I, for one, take him at his word—GiveSendGo is Chri…
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