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Israeli Forest Fire as Divine Punishment, Religious Leaders (From Both Sides) Agree

…strous levels… The warning sign sent from above joins the previous warning sign, when we are already in the midst of drought. These warning signs are sent to wake us, to prod the sleeping from their sleep… Each one must come to conclusions and drive crookedness from his heart.” Israel’s most prominent ultra-orthodox rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, had a more specific explanation: “Fire exists only in a place where the Sabbath is desecrated,” he read from the…

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Amid Growing Legitimacy Challenges from its Right and Left, Vatican Seizes Control of the Supernatural — to Prevent ‘Abuses’

…t or whether it challenges or contradicts the Roman Catholic faith). Those promoting the validity of a rejected event could face penalties from the Church. Of course, this isn’t the first time the Church has pulled rank. According to a series of apparitions in Amsterdam from 1945-1959, Mary herself requested the Church issue a new dogma. The Vatican later intervened in 1974 stating there was no evidence of anything supernatural, and four years lat…

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Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite

…the wake of the criticism to the point where many Komen executives have resigned—people took to Twitter and Facebook and it happened in just a few days. Another example is Sandra Fluke and the so-called religious freedom battle, which was an anti-contraception battle, and what happened to Rush Limbaugh. He is significantly diminished in both his sponsors and his radio outreach. That was completely a creature of social media—and again driven by wo…

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Needle Exchange Gets Religion

…their own needle exchange programs for injecting drug users. An even more significant sign may be the growing voice(s) of religion, joining science and faith in holy matrimony. In the last decade or so, since religion has taken on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, it has done so unevenly and in fits and starts. In areas of care and treatment, the concept of sin has given way to human weakness, and punishment to compassion. On the issue of prevention (especi…

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Two Wars and No Peace in Sight: The Role of Faith-Based Pacifism

…e at peacemaking. Many people think that all we have to do is stand with a sign or poster and things will change. Generally, peacemaking is a far more complex and multifaceted process than that. What about the idea that violence is inherent in human nature?  I think that a lot of people believe that all human and animal life is driven by the survival of the fittest. Many people assume that we are innately aggressive and thus nonviolence is against…

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Hobby Lobby Aftermath: Christian College Demands an Exemption…from the Exemption

…o government itself. If a religious objector has a right to be exempt from signing a document that triggers the provision of government funding for contraceptive services (as would logically seem to follow from holding that a religious objector as a right to be exempt from signing a document that triggers the provision of funding the same services by an insurance carrier), then why not hold that a religious objector has a right not to pay taxes to…

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Oral Roberts, Pioneering Televangelist, Dies

…money to build the center, it was the vision of a 900-foot-tall Jesus as a sign to Roberts that would place media scrutiny on his ministry in an uncomfortable way. Ridiculed for reciting the vision in a letter to supporters, the 900-foot-tall Jesus vision would eventually inspire Mark Griffin of Dallas to become a self-styled rapper with the handle of MC 900 Ft. Jesus, who had a string of hits. Roberts was not without his share of controversy over…

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Equal Protection of First Amendment

…o foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder, 2 and if the sign or wonder of which he has spoken takes place, and he says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” 3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 It is the LORD your God you…

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Missing the Anger for the Shoes

…rally different way amongst Arabs than among non-Arabs. Maybe. Maybe not. Does it actually have any relevance to this argument? Now Iraqis are throwing shoes at armed forces? Is this cultural, or a sign of solidarity? Does it matter? The Iraqis are pissed-off. Focusing on the shoes seems to miss the point. For more, see The Shoe Thrower: What Bush Didn’t Understand….

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Even Amid Controversy, ‘My Soul Still Sings,’ Says UMC’s First Lesbian Bishop

…body of Christ, can’t show that difference is not a bad thing, and it’s a sign of God’s divinity, if we can’t show what it’s like to live in the tension of those differences, and find unity, what hope is there for the rest of the world?” Nevertheless, Oliveto is optimistic about the future of the church that still makes her soul sing. “I really believe there’s a love revolution going on,” she said of the response to her election. Even those who r…

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