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ACLU and Thomas More Law Center Rush to Terry Jones Defense

By Lauri Lebo

…ones has any brains at all – and I’m not saying he does – he’ll get on the phone to the ACLU right now, begging its attorneys to take his case. What’s so incredibly stupid about all of this is that it seems like the community couldn’t have more bungled the handling of this raging bigot. Now, Jones – who is obviously one of the biggest spotlight-seeking jerks out there – will be made into a martyr and now stands to make a lot of money from the taxp…

Lessons Learned this Ramadan

By Amina Wadud

…ercy in the story of Joseph, with his father’s expression of deep love and care. I have always liked the idea of a sacred text that takes the time to notice. This year, I learned that as we get older, our capacity for even the prescribed worship might change. There were more people in chairs for prayer than I remember in the past, and I had to take one myself for one of the tarawih. I finally finished the Qur’an reading I had started last year and…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…’s some research that shows that people who have cancer and get palliative care (rather than chemical care) live longer and are happier. Which is an astonishing outcome, given the commitments we’ve made in the other direction. Dan: How many patients who don’t receive that kind of care, but receive the aggressive interactions. Ellul is very much concerned with those kinds of technological questions—I don’t think he survived to see the online boom—b…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ued. “The purpose of our CPGs is to make sure that women get safe abortion care. The purpose of these regulations is to make sure that women don’t get safe abortion care.” The NAF’s 2011 clinical policy guidelines are 55 pages long; longer than the new Kansas regulations. Like the Kansas standards for abortion clinics—and, for that matter, the Kansas standards for other outpatient surgery centers—the NAF policy guidelines cover various aspects of…

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…oman Catholic order established by Mother Teresa. The nun who answered the phone said she couldn’t give her name because they aren’t allowed to talk to the press. She did say, however, that the sisters who are in the order now were not in the order when the adoption home opened, so she wasn’t sure why it closed. She added that the order sold the Chevy Chase house in 2002. “We work with the poor and we didn’t have any work there because it’s a rich…

War on Christmas Affirmed by Southern Baptist Convention

By Mark Gstohl

…s don’t wish to be to be greeted with “Merry Christmas?” Should Christians care about their feelings? It’s my contention that they should. Loving one’s neighbor involves respecting and being sensitive to their feelings. My suggestion is that if Southern Baptists feel the need to de-secularize Christmas they should practice the teachings of Christ and reflect on whether or not they are truly restoring Christmas to its proper place in their lives. H…

A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…me in the SPR threw themselves behind a new contraption called the “psycho-phone” through which the inventors claimed to be hearing the voices of angels. The psychophone no doubt sounds absurd, but I can’t say that it sounds much more far-fetched than a transcranial magnetic stimulator. Both demonstrate the enduring cultural impulse toward techno-theologizing. However much neuroscientists might want to forswear an interest in the metaphysics of th…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…beginning to reinterpret the message, even before its failure. One poster, Carolyn from Arizona, put it this way: THANK YOU BLOSSOM! I will never have a way to repay you this wonderful feeling of love I have felt through out all these past days!. I don’t care anymore if the spaceship comes or not because I understand now what love is all about and what we need to do in order to ascend. A ship or extraterrestrials won’t solve our problems, we are t…

Friending Pope Benedict on Facebook?

By Kate Childs Graham

…n Paul II, Pope Benedict sent the following text message to Italian mobile phone users: “Let us go forth in the joy of the risen Lord and trusting in his permanent help.” JPII had been texting Italians with a “thought of the day” while he was still alive, so Benedict was simply carrying on this tradition. Pope Benedict has more recently used text messaging to communicate with attendees throughout this year’s World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia. H…

A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…gushing waterfall, some of which seemed to be making its way through to my phone. I received a swarm of text messages and emails from different people I know across the country, arriving almost simultaneously: This is the best moment in my lifetime, politically. Shout out to the ancestors who r rejoicing with us 2night! Oh yeah. President Obama! A new day is on the way! Yes GOD can! Yes we can! They didn’t want to give us 40 acres and a mule so da…