Search for "A00-282 Testking 💾 A00-282 Prüfungs-Guide 🌁 A00-282 Prüfungsmaterialien 🌇 Öffnen Sie ▛ www.itzert.com ▟ geben Sie ⮆ A00-282 ⮄ ein und erhalten Sie den kostenlosen Download 🥢A00-282 Online Test"

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…“we are all confronted with feelings of alienation, of isolation, of not being understood, of not being witnessed.” Added Fiona Givens, “There isn’t a single person in this room not carrying a cross. We’re all carrying crosses.” Trevor, a gay Mormon blogger, published “What Church Could Be,” a reflection about the Affirmation conference in which he confessed, “I do not feel the spirit at church…Instead, church seems to be a place of feeling inade…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…LGBT couple in the eye and prove to them that their marriage perverts and undermines the common good. The reality is that the legalization of same-sex marriage enhances human rights and social justice.” Australia: Anti-marriage Prime Minister ousted, replaced by progressive Catholic convert We have reported on (now former) Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s long-time efforts to block a parliamentary vote on marriage equality. This week, Abbott was purg…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ies New Ways Ministry, a Catholic group planning to hold a conversation around gender identity issues during the Pope’s visit to Philadelphia next month, was banned by church officials from holding their event in a local parish. St. John the Evangelist in downtown Philadelphia was also going to serve as a home base for Equally Blessed, but that group has been shut out too. The Washington Post’s Michelle Boorstein notes: The news Tuesday follows th…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…news is, on some level, a form of marketing. As a simultaneous marker of identity and identity marketer, the hashtag plays a neat trick: it lets you affiliate yourself with a club, and then broadcast that clubbiness to as many people as possible. So churches use social media—even if Twitter probably is not “the most powerful way ever devised to spread the Word of our Lord,” as JesusTweeters.com posits. Curious to see how people were using hashtag…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…r with the less subtle headline, “Christianity Today Writer Ken Smith Is Founder of a Company Fined for Deceptive Business Practices; With Child Porn Ties.” The main thrust of the first of the two Post pieces was to disprove the allegations that Jang’s followers considered him a new messiah by calling into question the legitimacy of the CT sources who made these claims. But the attacks in this first response seem mild compared to the piece that f…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…statements that have inflamed anti-Muslim attitudes in Pennsylvania—his latest being that he plans to publicly flog a Koran on the Pennsylvania state capitol steps next month in protest of a state resolution to name 2012 the “Year of Religious Diversity.” There is No Such Thing as Islamophobia While these issues have been the subject of debate in segments of the atheist movement for some time, events this month have got me thinking about a new as…

Christians are ‘Jerks,’ The New Scopes Trial, Pastafarians’ Rights

By Michael J. Altman

…is part of his Pastafarian religion. A Catholic bishop in Chicago had his online identity stolen by email scammers. The scammers used the Bishop Joseph Perry’s email address and a fake Facebook page in his name to scam victims out of money for an orphanage in Africa that had supposedly burned down. The Catholic Church has canonized the first Australian-born saint. Some are calling Mother Mary MacKillop the Patron Saint of Whistleblowers for her b…

True Blood: When Marketing Goes For the Jugular

By Joseph Laycock

…ction. This was primarily done online, where Web sites such as TruBeverage.com were created, complete with product descriptions of various synthetic blood types. Vampire profiles began to appear on Myspace, Facebook, and livejournal complete with fake news and fake discussions on how Tru Blood would affect the vampire political structure. YouTube clips began to circulate in which actors in fangs snarled into webcams that the hackers who had found…

This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

By Susan Henking

…o become less religious, while those majoring in education are likely to become more religious. But students majoring in biology and physical sciences remain just about as religious as they were when they started college. Of course, the article itself is not really about a causal link between either religiosity and choice of major or the impact of college major on religiosity. The article is about a set of correlations, developed through a study o…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…s out to show that the seeds of environmentalism were first sown in the Garden of Eden.” “The Green Bible,” which went on sale two weeks ago, “uses green ink to spotlight more than 1,000 passages extolling the goodness of creation and God’s charge to mankind to care for it.” The publisher, HarperOne, uses the New Revised Standard Translation of the Bible “to present the earth-loving book printed with soy ink on recycled paper and bound in eco-frie…