Religion Dispatches
…this week that an FAQ was released for the project, but not on the project website. The lack of clarity of mission reflects that lack of a consistent voice of leadership. When the controversy started in May, Feisal Abdul-Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative and his wife Daisy Khan of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) were treated as the official spokespeople of the project. Now, Sharif al-Gamal of SoHo Properties, which owns the land, i…
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…ing Mormonism. They even read and ridiculed comments from people on Beck’s website, who indicated that they were Mormon. Decker said Beck has been “using terminology that Mormons manipulate. . . terms that have double meanings . . . and that now he’s getting into things right out of the Book of Mormonism itself.” Howse had been a big Beck (and David Barton) supporter—and Howse continues to believe that “Christians” should work with Beck when they…
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…had physically escaped, but he was still captive emotionally. He set up a website in which he decried Elder Ephraim as an abusive cult leader. He also grew obsessed about possessions that he’d left behind, including a retainer, and in June of 2012 he bought two guns and drove back to Arizona. To St. Anthony’s. He entered the monastery grounds and was approached by the monk working security that night. When approached, he panicked and drove away….
Read More…t and what its priorities are. These grants appear to be recent. The USCCB website lists one grant to Obria for $500,000 through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development in 2016. The Title X funding, which is being stripped from four Planned Parenthood affiliates that provide abortion services, will go to seven Obria-affiliated clinics in Southern California. Three of the clinics, those owned directly by Obria, don’t provide any contraceptives,…
Read More…nstream, “an information resource for orthodox Anglicans,” featured on its website this week an article by Joseph Nicolosi, champion of “reparative therapy.”) In a related note, the Telegraph reports that BBC announced that as part of a cost-cutting restructuring, it was eliminating its top religion post, currently held by Aaqil Ahmed, the first Muslim to hold the position. Italy: Rome recognizes civil unions; Catholic Church decries ‘anti-family…
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…er fraud. “Voter fraud is a very real problem in Kansas,” he writes on his website. “Election crimes have been documented across the state—from fraudulent registrations, to vote-by-mail fraud. As the activities of ACORN have demonstrated, organizations that promote voter fraud have burrowed into every corner of our country. In Kansas, the illegal registration of alien voters has become pervasive.” I love the phrase, “burrowed into every corner of…
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…unted heroes of “The Horrific 4,” a satirical series on the newly launched website, Free Arabs. The series’ other protagonists include Mahmoud (a.k.a. Moody) a gay Arab, and Yehudi, an Israeli Jew. Together with Moody and Ahlam, these are “Satan’s personal envoys to the holy Ummah.” The series, hyberbole and all, is meant to force an urgent debate about uneasy topics in Arab societies. Free Arabs is the work of Morocco’s ‘enfant terrible,’ Ahmed B…
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…impose discipline for his choice to brandish the term “Wuhan Virus” on his website. The absence of any public chastisement enables him to cast himself as a faithful son of the Church, bigotry included. Such framing is sure to burnish his credentials with the swelling Catholic right. Meanwhile, Sen. Marsha Blackburn is an “active member” of Nashville’s Christ Presbyterian in Nashville. Her Dec. 3 tweet smearing China with “5,000 years of cheating a…
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…ss-the-brand seems very much a 21st-century operation. There’s a toll-free number for people to call where if you press three, you’ll be connected to a Heartfulness associate in North America. The organization offers a livestream of conferences on their web site, and there are heartfulness apps with virtual instructors on iTunes and Google Play. The one thing the conference seemed to tout above all else was accessibility. “This does not exert you…
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…e standards—but the standards themselves live on an apparently independent website. This is significant in part because many who’ve adopted the apostolic model of church governance aren’t actually a part of the Wagner-influenced networks. The Wagnerian apostles are being diplomatic in inviting others within their association and beyond to be reasonable though they lack any enforcement mechanism. But they make their view of the gravity of the situa…
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