Religion Dispatches
…e, and no doubt many generations of Deadheads to come, most reliably, in the music. Look into any eyes you find by you, you can see clear through to another day I know it’s been seen before through other eyes on other days while going home… …
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…ke against the enemy, or as he put it, “If discipline begins on the second day of life, you’re one day late.” Given that Dobson believes life begins at conception, the conclusion is that the discipline of children by pain is not merely a way to remedy bad behavior, but an opportunity to express love. According to Dobson, the best chance to communicate comes after an episode where the parent has physically hurt the child: For this reason, parents s…
Read More…difficult. Tyson, therefore, decided to give the workers Eid as a paid holiday instead of Labor Day. Surprisingly, this ignited furor and bigotry in the community, which saw Tyson’s move as “un-American.“ Yet, as Kim Bobo points out, federal law requires employers to accommodate the religious beliefs of workers, unless it’s a hardship for the employers. Does the community consider federal law un-American? Is it such a crime to allow people to cele…
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…. Minister for the Church, Nivi Olsen, says: “We have long waited for this day. To have the opportunity to enter into marriage means a lot to many couples regardless of the gender of one’s partner. I am therefore pleased that a united Parliament adopted in 2010, finally made it a reality.” The Department for Education, Science, Culture and Church Affairs, in collaboration with the bishop’s office, prepared the practical implications of the amendme…
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…n which I live. If they follow the calendar and start fasting on a certain day then I will start on that day. If I am in a locale that starts fasting according only to the actual sighting of the moon then I will start my fast when they determine it is time. I do this not because I lack political will or even because I lack an opinion, as I said; I prefer the citation of the hilal (crescent) over the calendar method. I do this because the end of th…
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Dear American Muslims: Maybe God puts us in the world not to do what we love, but to stop those we hate. How often, in life, does anyone really have a choice between what they clearly want, and what they clearly oppose? Life doesn’t work that way. You can list all the reasons you want about why one candidate has shortcomings and use this as a reason to justify not voting against the other, far worse candidate, but ultimately, to me, this election…
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…1) offered a haunting but uncharacteristically moralistic poetic response: Day after day after day, At noon and midnight, the cold was piercing. The sky was thick with black clouds that blocked out the sun. Fierce winds howled, snow swirled violently. Wild waves stormed heaven, buffeting monster fish. Walls trembled and shook, people shrieked in terror. Looking back at the past forty years, I now see that things were racing out of control: …
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It is impossible to deny the significance of what citizens of the United States achieved on November 4 with unquestionable clarity. We, as a nation, have moved that much closer to re-envisioning the nature and meaning of our democratic ideals in ways that prioritize our values, our ethical commitments, over against the look of our bodies. In this sense, we have made important strides towards living the best of our principles by pushing toward con…
Read More…t 1, the Shelbyville Times-Gazette ran a story entitled “Tyson drops Labor Day holiday for Eid al-Fitr” that unleashed a firestorm of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment, both of which seem far too prevalent for a nation built by immigrants and priding itself on the freedom of religion. The story was based on an a press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) announcing that its new contract included a paid holid…
Read More…fact, Jesus is no further than the host of websites that sell “Happy Birthday Jesus Party Supplies,” pre-assembled nativity scenes, special holiday editions of the Bible, sermon series’, and a catalog of religious Christmas music. Paul Simon has presented us with such a Christmas present in the form of a new song, “Getting Ready for Christmas Day” (video below). The song questions, among other things, just how “religious” our holiday season reall…
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