Religion Dispatches
…In the following clip from The Posner Show, Sarah and Columbia Law School’s Kara Loewentheil discuss how a letter urging Obama not to include a religious exemption in a forthcoming executive order barring federal contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity would interact with existing rules granting religious exemptions to religiously-affiliated contractors….
Read More…e employees from acts the doctors see as moral. Understanding that at least a fair share of Catholic hospitals and systems have these values can go a long way in developing more cooperative models of engagement around difference between those of us who are prochoice and Catholic institutions….
Read More…e dynamic and unstable than that. Maybe the point to prohibiting images isn’t to preclude representation, but to push the sacred to become all the more universal, all the more accessible, and all the more profound….
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…ians don’t actually exist. I’m thinking of telling the IRS and perhaps the mortgage company that I don’t truly exist, but I have a feeling that won’t go over well, so obviously, I do exist as both, and more, of course. I’ve also been kicked out of the Christian club for not believing in other orthodox doctrines and dogma including the Trinity, a literal, bodily resurrection of Jesus and the notion that Jesus died for my sins. The latest insult to…
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…re they are hardly arbitrary or unique. Pollan ignores what is perhaps the most common explanation for the prohibition of certain animals, one aimed not at distancing Israelites from others but rather at maintaining the relationship between the individual self and the divine. Rabbis of all eras insist that self-restraint is one of the most vital lessons of the laws of kashrut (of most of the commandments, in fact), regardless of the seemingly arbi…
Read More…y, Gary Dorrien Union Theological Seminary Eddie Glaude Princeton University Harry Knox Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Ira Lapidus University of California at Berkeley Khalid Latif New York University Kathryn Lofton Yale University Haroon Moghul Columbia University Anthony Pinn Rice University Jeff Sharlet Dartmouth University Varun Soni University of Southern California Chris Stedman Yale Humanist Community Krista Tippett OnBeing Emi…
Read More…ly sponsored a study of ayahuasca in the treatment of addiction in British Columbia. Bill W., the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, took LSD in the 1950s and felt it could play a major role in the treatment of addiction. The spiritual experience help people to accept themselves, and give people strength. So spiritual experiences will have a place in modern medicine, such as research into LSD for people with anxiety associated with the end of life….
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…ty” in Western European constitutions, beginning with the 1937 Christian Democratic constitution of Ireland, Moyn concludes that “through this lost and misremembered transwar era, it is best to see human rights as a project of the Christian right for the most part, not the secular left.” Is the advancement of human rights in the 1940s best seen as a project of the Christian right? What could this mean? And what would this mean for the legacy of hu…
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…lite” churches that offer the same theology, liturgy and worship styles as most non-welcoming evangelical churches, minus the judgment. Having been involved in many of these evangelical lite churches over the years, though, I can affirm that there are still many who remain conflicted about their faith and sexuality or gender identity even in a more welcoming environment. I believe that’s so because while evangelical lite churches may be missing th…
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…t me ! My turban is dirty? who let the turban out:? I’ve had it with these motherf*cking snakes on this motherf*cking turban!!! Get out of my Turban! What are you looking at? Is my turban dirty? “I was so drunk last night i lost my turban and everything” “Dam!, ran out of toliet paper Excuse me can i use your turban?” My Turban Only Comes Off During Sex 😉 Hate’s it when im feeding ducks and my turban falls into the pond :/ Would you mind giving m…
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