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Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

…nd weeping could be heard between the chiming of bells on Taylor Kuffner’s computerized sound art piece, “The Soul of the Temple.” Hundreds of temple visitors were reading and writing stories of abuse and suffering or messages to the dead for others to read: a best friend who suffered from a heart attack brought about by years of bulimia; a letter to a brother who committed suicide; a goodbye to a 24-year-old who was struck by lightning while camp…

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Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

…the divine, because they would be living in accordance with God’s will. A Muslim had to redeem history, and that meant that state affairs were not a distraction from spirituality but the stuff of religion itself. The political well being of the Muslim community was a matter of supreme importance. Like any religious ideal, it was almost impossible to implement in the flawed and tragic conditions of history, but after each failure Muslims had to get…

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Spiritualism and Sex Meet Evangelical Censorship, 19th-Century-Style

…nprintable. It also, of course, has the playful effect of making my book sound forbidden—as if to recover Craddock’s story from the oblivion of censorship is itself an illicit gesture. If I were now to reconsider the title, I might think about a shorter and less titillating subtitle. I also thought about a title that would call attention to the central conflict in the book between Craddock and Comstock and also perhaps between Craddock and her pos…

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Should Gays and Lesbians Argue Scripture? A Dialogue

…o interest in admitting any “unclarity” in the clobber verses. There is no common ground in such a redefinition. Arguing over scripture—even arguing over whether to argue over scripture—only frustrates the participants and continues to cloud the real issue that the Bible calls us to embrace grace over judgment, acceptance over rejection, and love over hatred. This is why I no longer argue scripture. That does not mean that I am not open to dialogu…

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Whew!

…ignificance of the recent bird deaths in Arkansas. I’m sure readers will be relieved to know that the fundamentalist Christian, who has created something of a cottage industry with his hysterically clueless attacks on evolution and Charles Darwin, makes it clear that the Second Coming is still a long way off. Watch it here. TV Guide provides analysis here. While we can all breath a sign of relief over Cameron’s calm assurances, isn’t the fact that…

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High Schooler says Barbara Ehrenreich’s Book Violates his Civil Rights

…list like Ehrenreich would propose. I don’t know what else Bedford High students read in that personal finance class, but given the job market likely to face today’s high school students, they should probably be attuned to the prospect of earning crap wages. Even if Ehrenreich hadn’t written about Jesus’s teachings, her book probably would have still been subject to the McCarthy treatment — no doubt she’ll soon be appearing on Glenn Beck’s chalkbo…

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2010: What Did We Believe In?

…shot to hell, psychological instability of returning veterans with unprecedented numbers committing suicide, veteran services stretched thin—these are only a few items that come to mind though they only scratch the surface of the psychic, social, and cultural scars inflicted by this war. Historically and across cultures, warfare is often the most religious event in the life of any society. Is it any different here, in America, with this war? The…

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Hajj Journal: Visiting the Kingdom is Not the Same as Visiting the King

…inconvenience that since they had boarded first, their bags were somewhere under our bags, tied under tarp on the roof of the bus. Yes, I did say on the roof of the bus and under tarp. But don’t get me started on the conditions of the bus, because at least no one was standing and the AC was kicking. Just because the windows had not possibly been washed for 8 or 9 years does not count, yet. Next two stops were at local offices for the tour company…

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Dreaming Beyond the Madman: Reflections on the Revolution in Libya

…east-organized) speeches. In a recent address to the nation, he accused protesters of being “cockroaches,” drug addicts, foreign spies, and Islamic radicals. He did so while sitting in a golf cart, holding a giant white umbrella, and complaining that he would join his people if not for the rain just then. Ask yourself, really: Who seems more like a drug addict? (In his most recent address to the United Nations, Qaddafi managed to speak for well ov…

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Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

…needed to make note for simplest return. Later, when I took my circuit around the outside of the mosque and took photos of quite a few of the doors, I also made a mental note of some of the names. (Next time I’m in the mosque, I will find out for you if any of them have women’s names.) I remember things like one of the four battles the Prophet engaged in after he left Makkah following 13 years as a nonviolent protestor: bab al-Ubaydah. There was…

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