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Chilean Mine Rescue: Largest Global Spiritual Event Ever?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…earth that had contained them and, from Ariel Ticona (miner #32), the telephone receiver that allowed him to talk with his wife Elizabeth after she gave birth to their daughter, Esperanza (Hope)—an event he was able to watch by live video feed in the mine. As we all watched the event unfold, Guardian UK writer Sam Wollaston compared it to an episode of the reality show Big Brother, which features a group of people under continuous video surveilla…

Canadian Courts Consider Decriminalization of Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…d civil liberties. Polygamy-practicing Mormons began fleeing to Mexico and Canada in the 1880s, after US Supreme Court Justices upheld the conviction of George Reynolds on polygamy charges in 1879, declaring polygamy an “odious” “Asiatic” practice not protected by First Amendment freedom of religion guarantees. Mormons founded and continue to make up a significant proportion of Canadian towns such as Cardston, in Alberta. The Bountiful community b…

Will San Francisco Ban Circumcision?

By Shalom Goldman

…up, sought public funding to initiate a campaign to outlaw circumcision in Canada. As the Canadian press reported, “In a rare display of unity, Canadian Muslims and Jews have joined together.” The Canadian branch of CAIR, the now embattled Council on American-Islamic Relations, argued that banning circumcision “would impose undue hardship on both faith communities who see circumcision as a requirement of their religion.” The Association for Genita…

The Cult of Kurzweil: Will Robots Save Our Souls?

By Robert M. Geraci

…looks likely to profit the filmmakers. Upon its initial iTunes release in Canada, the film shot into to the top ten in popularity, which was followed by immediate success in the United States. One Singular Salvation? It is, of course, totally unclear whether Moravec, Kurzweil, and their supporters are correct. Will robots become massively intelligent? Will human beings become highly intelligent cyborgs or upload our minds fully into machines and…

Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Sarah Posner

…rther impetus was the Latter Rain Movement, which arose out of revivals in Canada. Focusing on extraordinary outpourings of the Holy Spirit, with spectacular spiritual manifestations, believers and leaders in the movement like William Branham believed these manifestations would usher in the second coming of Christ. The movement also caused splits within several Pentecostal denominations, most notably the Assemblies of God. Unlike the Word of Faith…

Ground Zero is Sacred Space, But Not Just Because of 9/11

By Randall Balmer

…of Baal.” The Jews proposed to erect a synagogue, and French Jesuits from Canada mounted several missionary sorties among the Indians. Many colonists blamed the slave uprising of 1712 on Elie Neau, a Huguenot-turned-Anglican and an early advocate for abolition who ran a school for Africans in New York City. Roman Catholics arrived in greater numbers in the nineteenth century, from places like Ireland, Germany, and Italy. As with other groups, fin…

Silver Bells and Atheist Billboards

By Steve A. Wiggins

…educators—the Association of Theological Schools of the United States and Canada, the main seminary accrediting body, likes to see PhDs on the faculty roster. Most doctoral programs require critical thinking capabilities, and critical thinking frequently calls the foundations of faith into question. A vicious cycle whirls more violently than Charybdis here. Over there is the Scylla of unprofessionalism (professors without enough letters following…

Violence of the Lambs: The Legacy of Anti-Choice Extremist Father Norman Weslin

By Kathryn Joyce

…DC bio, and does not seem to have eulogized Weslin.) Twenty years later, a number of Weslin’s Atlanta cohort—like Shannon, Dinwiddie and Bray—would become chief supporters of Scott Roeder, the Operation Rescue follower who shot Dr. Tiller at his church in 2009. The 1988 arrestees were housed separately for 40 days, resulting in the creation of an ad-hoc movement school that the prisoners compared to the civil rights schools of Birmingham jails in…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…be called the Federation of Islamic Associations of the United States and Canada (FIA). The first president of the FIA, Abdallah Igram, a World War II veteran, approached President Eisenhower in 1953 to ask, “Why is there no symbol for the Islamic faith on a Muslim serviceman’s identification tags so that he might be given fitting burial rites if he’s killed in action?” His query led to the use of an “I” on the dog tags of American Muslim soldier…

“How the Mormons Make Money” Speaks Volumes About Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…ist resorts; and citrus, sod, timber, and cattle operations in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. As a religious organization, the LDS Church is exempt from paying taxes on leased real estate properties and donated stock holdings. The LDS Church gives an estimated $52 million annually in humanitarian relief, about .7% of its annual income. Bloomberg notes by comparison that the United Methodist Church gives about 29% of…