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‘Eff Around and Find Out’ — Federal and State Law Enforcement Reaffirm Their Commitment to Election Integrity 

…l and that anyone who experiences violence at the polls should immediately contact police. This comes after the Justice Department’s decision to monitor polls in 27 states to ensure 86 jurisdictions were compliant with federal voting rights laws. Arizona’s Maricopa County and Georgia’s Fulton County, which were subject to MAGA backed conspiracies of mass voter fraud in favor of Biden, are critical districts within swing states that the DOJ will se…

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Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

…vacuous logic of fatwas, or legal pronouncements. Episode titles include: “Contact Lenses: Forbidden!” and the inscrutable, “About Using Carrots.”  The skits are based on real fatwa texts issued by ‘questionable’ scholars. Each video is preceded by a disclaimer that the series does not mock Islam but exposes Muslim clerics “who are prone to criticism.” And the video is then followed by links to the original texts of the fatwas. Obviously, the seri…

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Making Amends

…ns, I must begin to make amends. Actually my list is not that long, once I contact my immediate family. This harks back to two things, in “making the will before hajj” one is also making plans for some kind of finality. If not physically then at least metaphorically. That is probably why so many people actually wish to die at hajj. This is the place and time where one’s life should come before one’s eyes and then washed as if a tsunami of purifica…

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Degrees of Separation

…) the library and the office. This means that women need to have access or contact with the men’s side or the main section for many of the functional matters of just being in the mosque, let alone iftar. On the women’s side are classrooms — and these were overflowing with women and children when I came for iftar last Sunday. I can see a kitchen door to the outside when I enter the courtyard and parking lot. It is in between the women’s entrance an…

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Evangelical Writer “Struggles” after Chick-fil-A Outing

…admitted in an interview with Ed Stetzer that he had engaged in “physical contact that went beyond the bounds of friendship,” with the blogger, but that he does not identify as gay simply because he’s, y’know, tempted to kiss and fondle other guys. What makes me the most sad, however, is the continued peddling of the lie that to be Christian one must “suffer” or “struggle.” This is the line we hear the most from gay and lesbian people hoodwinked…

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Magic In the Daylight

…what purpose and magic have to do with one another. If Sophie could really contact an unseen world of souls of the dead, it would certainly make death less final. But how would it make meaning out of this life? And what does God have to do with it? There are, of course, many religious traditions worldwide for which communicating with invisible spirits of some kind is a mainstay. Houdini would have had a hard time with the example of Quesalid, a sh…

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Rick Warren Won’t Denounce Proposed Ugandan Anti-Gay Law

…Church, nor the Global PEACE Plan strategy. In 2007, we completely severed contact with Mr. Ssempa  when we learned that his views and actions were in serious conflict with our own. Our role, and the role of the PEACE Plan, whether in Uganda or any other country, is always pastoral and never political. We vigorously oppose anything that hinders the goals of the PEACE Plan: Promoting reconciliation, Equipping ethical leaders, Assisting the poor, Ca…

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Sleep-Deprived

…retend that is why I am awake. He sleeps all night but not without a human contact somewhere in there once or twice. As long as we cuddle him and give him the pacifier he’s good ’til morning. I can’t take him for the night with the fast because he’s at the age where he gets to decide the clock and unfortunately he might just compete with the divine mandate for getting up in a timely fashion for us suhur diehards. It would just not work if he was u…

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Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

…ing dangers and burdens from which Niebuhr was far removed. Niebuhr had no contact with Graham’s audiences, and by the 1950s he faced little prospect of confronting angry crowds of any kind. But even in his rarefied world of seminaries and lectureships, Niebuhr did not take the risk that he prescribed for Graham, that of challenging his group to interrogate its racism. Asking white liberals in the 1950s to confront their racism would not have gone…

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Romney on Israel: More GOP Than LDS

…ildren.” The Church is “very concerned that we be seen, for example, in Jerusalem itself as friends to both sides,” something Peterson said the administrators of the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies of Brigham Young University strive for. While “a Latter-day Saint would find it very hard to be fundamentally critical of the Zionist project because our scriptures talk about the return of Jews to the Holy Land,” said Peterson, “there’s certa…

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