Search for "how to find cheap airline tickets flexible dates phone number 1-800-299-7264"

Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…y cause lies in a metaphysical vision of universal humanity. Such a vision dates back to American metaphysicals like Ralph Waldo Emerson and 19th century utopian communities. It’s a vision that Walt Whitman called “the divine ideas of spirituality.” The religion in Zeitgeist draws on multiple sources in an American tradition of metaphysical religion that is skeptical of organized (often Christian) religious institutions and hopeful in its spiritua…

Opposition To DADT Repeal And The High Rate Of Evangelical Chaplains

By Sarah Posner

…oveland, author of American Evangelicals and the U.S. Military, 1942-1993, dates the trend back to the Vietnam War.) New York Times, 2005: There are also growing numbers of enlistees from evangelical churches. In 2005, there were 1,794 members of the Assemblies of God in the Air Force, 597 from the Church of the Nazarene and 108 from the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Because so many churches cannot be comfortably categorized as evangelical or…

Woe is Me (“Ya laytani”)

By Amina Wadud

…s in which she was consoled in her labor and given cool water to drink and dates to eat until the labor was over and the child safely delivered. There is no exhortation for her to neglect the experience of labor because she will be the mother of the Prophet. Her labor experience is hers alone, but equally significant in this Qur’anic account. So likewise the story of the mother of Moses. We know the deal. Pharaoh’s soothsayers have predicted the e…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…long history of Muslim community building in the United States. This story dates back to the European discovery of the Americas. We often forget that Europeans crossed the Atlantic in search of trade routes that would bypass Muslim empires and merchants. People of Muslim heritage were involved in the encounters and rivalries that established the Atlantic world, and some of them ended up in the Americas. It was not, however, until the rise of the A…

The Kids Are All Wrong: Texas Tosses The Enlightenment

By Burke Gerstenschlager

…ensive is Calvin’s concept of predestined government, it effectively invalidates the concept of the Separation of Church and State before it is even introduced! Dunbar, McLeroy, and the rest of the Board members have offered a major blow against our culture’s own post-Enlightenment understanding of self-determination and free will. Texas does not go back two hundred years to the Framers of the Constitution. It goes back 400 years to the Reformatio…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…e uncomfortable intersection of the Nation and the Office of the President dates back to Malcolm X’s remarks in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. Malcolm X described the assassination as a case of the “chickens coming home to roost”; meaning that the violence the Kennedy administration failed to stop came back to hurt him. Public anger at Malcolm X and the negative attention cast upon the Nation of Islam led then-leader Elijah M…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…n with Muslims, among other peoples). Caldwell is also right to point to a number of challenges within the European Muslim population; for one thing, too many Muslims are happy to exclude and be excluded, comfortable in self-selected isolation, and indifferent to the worth of the wider, non-Muslim society around them. Such attitudes contribute to alienation and extremism. There are also deep currents of misogyny, illiberalism, intolerance, and ant…

‘High Church’ Chronicles: Will Anglican Blessing of Medical Marijuana Open the Door to a Royal Strain?

By Becky Garrison

…vide their members opportunities to partake of cannabis via communal rituals, continuing the tradition of cannabis‘s spiritual dimension, which dates from ancient Chinese shamans to modern-day Rastafarians….

Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By Jonathan L. Walton

…of the freedom-fighting “black church” is in many ways inconsistent with a number of African American Christians whose view of the faith is informed by Trinity Broadcasting, the Word Network, and Streaming Faith.com. Just the same, for sociologists and communication theorists who have examined the world of evangelical religious broadcasting, it is predominantly framed as the domain of the white, religious right. This book, then, is my attempt to…

The Papal Prayer Machine

By Peter Manseau

…of its service that could serve as a script for heaven’s own automated telephone response system: “Your prayer concerns are important to us,” OurPrayer.org says, “and that’s why each and every prayer request we receive is prayed for by a trained volunteer by name and by need.” Such uses of Twitter make it part of a long tradition of technology’s tendency to remake faith in its own image. According to Franklin and Marshall College’s John Lardas Mod…