Religion Dispatches
…epentance, and programs to help those abused. I’ve read it several times since the European scandal, and I could write the same thing today. Since that piece was published in 2002, in the American church, some of those measures were taken, and although there are many cases that still need adjudication or resolution, the path to rectify the sexual abuse has, and continues to be addressed. As Thomas Reese, S. J notes, it took seventeen years for the…
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…-year hiatus in 2005, word began to spread that the new Who was something incredible. Under the guidance of producer Russell T. Davies (creator of Queer as Folk), Doctor Who quickly transformed from “acquired taste” into “essential viewing.” The new show is sophisticated, witty, and (most importantly) fun. It’s been showered with accolades in its native Britain, winning a slew of BAFTAs and turning into a proper cultural phenomenon. Its success br…
Read More…raphed a piece of paper on the dashboard of Roeder’s car: It contained the phone number of Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue’s senior policy advisor, who served two years in prison for conspiring to bomb abortion clinics in 1988. Roeder also told me that Sullenger was present at the lunch with Newman where they discussed “justifiable” homicide, and that Newman had given Roeder the autographed copy of his book just three months before Roeder kille…
Read More…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 the Reconstructionists are an irrelevant fringe movement, as many others seem to think, since he’s paid money to email them and apparently expects that it will be worthwhi…
Read More…ion. Also, his supporters have accused the Dennis family of making up evidence by altering a photo of Zachary’s burned arm. Coach Dave Daubenmire, the creator of the Mt. Vernon’s Minute Men United, a militant organization that endorses Christian theocracy, and one of Freshwater’s most active supporters, told me in a January phone interview, “That is not the arm of Zachary Dennis, or if it is, it was not a mark left by John Freshwater.” When asked…
Read More…conscientiously opposed to participating in war in any form, based on a sincerely held religious, moral or ethical belief. And the person must have had a change of heart since joining the military, when the person signed a form saying he or she was not a conscientious objector and did not intend to become one. “In the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ situation, they’re not opposed to participating in war, they’re opposed to who they’re participating with,…
Read More…pe Bristol Palin 1. Pray for mom’s soul 2. Buy Revolve 2010 (Biblezine) 3. Get Promise Keepers application for Levi 4. Become a True Woman 5. Baby Making Time! 6. Refill prescription for Prozac Spencer Pratt 1. Get saved again by Stephen Baldwin 2. Buy soul from eBay 3. Cancel membership in Promise Keepers 4. Send in application to Army of God 5. Drinks with Mel…
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…pted calculation in advance, choosing to figure out the months well in advance. Makes it easier to plan. Others, myself included, like to wait up all night to hear word. If anyone across the Americas has in fact spotted that first crescent, then we enter Ramadan. The last day of Ramadan ends with the next crescent moon, marking Eid ul-Fitr—one of the two biggest holidays of the Muslim year. (The other commemorates Abraham’s near-sacrifice of his s…
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…nal judgment. Life comes and life goes and it is up to us to make a difference in life, and that includes being grateful for the gifts of life for being spared death for sight and hearing and bridges that don’t collapse. Yeah, why not? There have been more deaths in my immediate circle since last Ramadan than any one year in my life. I got to meet Abdurrahman Wahid, Gus Dur while he could still laugh and joke, an incredible man; my eldest brother,…
Read More…eard the steady gallumphing of a bull frog. Even though I was quite a distance away, I could make out the big boy in the reeds and coasted towards him to see how close I could get before he hopped into the water. But even as I came closer, the frog didn’t move. Finally, I drifted to within three feet of him, yet he was still staring back at me, and still offering occasional croaks. That’s when I noticed the frog’s back end was missing, having disa…
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