Religion Dispatches
…her it will be invoked in some future lawsuit or simply filed away. In either case, it is telling evidence that strange things continue to happen to people who write about Scientology; but they are taking on surprising new forms as the church adapts to a new world of information….
Read More…rl Jung.” Past attempts to organize events have been stymied by a falling out with his fellow Satanists. Daniels is also a registered sex offender, having had an inappropriate relationship with a female prisoner while working as a guard at an Oklahoma prison. When asked if there had been a pushback to Daniels’ previous three events, Civic Center general manager Jim Brown answered, “We’ve had none.” However, Daniels’ latest announcement to hold a b…
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…ible was. How about that? And of course everything in me wanted to say no but my mouth said yes. Did you know them? Yes, but I wasn’t on the circuit. It had been years. And I was shocked, but I went over there and I preached for them. I had a great time in the worship and I joined that church that day. And I stayed with him almost ten years. One year after I got there I was already Associate Pastor. I had the experience. I was a church kid, and I…
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…at the way to prevent abortion is to make it less necessary, not illegal. But Wuerl, like other bishops is also politically astute. Denying communion to Senators Kennedy, Mikulski, Leahy, etc is just not good politics. The line for communion would be woefully short were prochoice Catholics to refrain. Duin once interviewed me on the subject and I told her I received communion without incident regularly in DC. In fact, I would probably receive it m…
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…little ultimately came of it… [Crutcher’s] efforts were, however, carried out over the telephone and the conversations were primarily with receptionists. Rose takes the effort farther. Video is far more compelling than recordings of phone calls. According to the Los Angeles Times: Rose, the third of eight children, grew up in San Jose. Her father is an engineer for Sun Microsystems. She was home schooled… and also attended a part-time Christian sc…
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…—into a machine that actually has consciousness. It might be thirty years out, but it’s a radical change that many are spending a lot of money [researching]—Google specifically. We think that at some point in the future, people might want to have virtual avatars of themselves. If we had the Empire State Building filled with servers, we could potentially recreate all the neural connections of every single living person on earth. You could fit the e…
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…ty work for lawmakers, who can then tell their voters they have no choice but to amend the laws. But it’s still unclear how this would play out. If same-sex marriage is approved, the LGBT community does not want a separate law to be created that only gives some protection to same-sex partners. They want current family laws to be amended so that gay couples would be treated the same as heterosexual couples, as they would then get equal rights and t…
Read More…as more recently used text messaging to communicate with attendees throughout this year’s World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia. His first message read: Young friend, God and his people expect much from u because u have within you the Fathers supreme gift: the Spirit of Jesus – BXVI. Now, as the Synod of Bishops meets in Rome, one person suggested Pope Benedict enter the blogoshere. Agnes Lam, president of the Catholic Biblical Association of Hong…
Read More…s like her by, among other things, targeting particular audiences: I have put together a plan to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Nevada Senate race — along with several others like it — to achieve conservative victory. This plan includes running statewide television and radio ads, sending direct mail to targeted voters, and operating phone banks — all geared toward defeating Harry Reid in November. DeMint apparently does not think…
Read More…one or two of them on retainer through December. Let them proof your Mormon-related copy for you. They have their work cut out for them….
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