Religion Dispatches
…d appeared the year before, and Mark Zuckerberg was feverishly writing the code that would become Facebook. YouTube was just an idea, and wouldn’t appear online in any form until 2005. John Paul did embrace social media as it existed then. He was the first pope to use SMS to send out a daily message to Catholics in 2004, after brokering a deal with Verizon—one of the first troubling commercial agreements between the Vatican and communications comp…
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…at the city needs. And as for calling it “a Center for the Human Dignity”—what could be wrong with that? The Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance is named for Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Founded in 1993 by Marvin Hier, an Orthodox Rabbi ordained at New Yeshiva University, the museum has been immensely successful. Well-funded and well-known, the museum attracts over a quarter of a million visitors a year. Rabbi Hier has forged ties with many influenti…
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…action. They would need to support the efforts of groups like the anti-war Code Pink that resorts to reason, empirical evidence and visibility to challenge U.S. development policies, or the Platform for the Movement for Black Lives, (one of the most advanced and inclusive political visions ever articulated), or the Fight for $15 movement that successfully campaigned to raise the minimum wage in many parts of the country. It would mean standing in…
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…er the bus.” Which speech were they listening to? Or does a reaction like that suggest that they were not listening at all? These are the important questions, and they are not as easy to answer as it may seem. It has been my sense that the left side of the Christian spectrum has reacted to these protests in ways that feed the beast rather than ameliorate a conflict. They cry “foul,” and express outrage at the suggestion that the president, a self-…
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…,” Vucic told reporters when asked about Brnabic’s sexuality. “I told her that what interests me is the work you can do,” he said. Homophobia is widespread in Serbia and other Balkan societies, and Belgrade has come under pressure to improve protection for minorities, including the LGBT community, since starting EU accession talks. More than 80 percent of Serbia’s seven million people are Orthodox Christians. At Belgrade’s Gay Pride march in 2010,…
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…based healing practices, but contemporary research points increasingly to what we might call the deep semiotics of health. It seems, minimally, that hope helps to heal. And ritualized hope in groups heals more effectively. Recognizing the Signs and Symbols of Health Semiotics, of course, is the study of signs and symbols, but it really has nothing to do with the fictional “symbologist” character played by Tom Hanks in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code…
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…ter who they are, or what they look like, or who they love,” said Obama. “That’s what makes us strong.” In contrast, President Robert Mugabe slammed gays at his United Nations General Assembly address on Monday. “Nowhere does the charter abrogate the right to some to sit in judgment over others, in carrying out this universal obligation. In that regard, we reject the politicization of this important issue and the application of double standards to…
Read More…ebate among serious Muslim scholars about that.” As far as fear-mongering that that Muslims seek to supplant the Constitution with shari’ah, Khan noted, “there is room for individual religious practice under the First Amendment and that includes personal and private contracts which can be based on any manner of law including religious law as long as it is consistent with local and state law and the U.S. Constitution.” Jewish law can apply to prenu…
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…own thing. I’m on this Earth as a God-appointed warrior in a dark time.’ That is what four days of carefully choreographed sermons and violent imagery had come to with only weeks to go before the presidential election. A political paradox Image: YouTube/UPPERROOM The politics of the NAR are paradoxical. They assert that we’re living in a biblically prophesied End Times, in which The Church as they understand it, and God’s angels, join forces to b…
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…s of biblical law. * * * * Like Rushdoony, [GOA lawyer Herb] Titus argues that government is by covenant; that authority is distributed by God among three institutions with distinct (and distinctly limited) jurisdictions: family, church, and civil government. To root this view in the American Constitutional system, Rushdoony and Titus both read the secular language of the Constitution in the context of the invocation of “the Creator” in the Declar…
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