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Euthanasia Billboards, Post-Rapture Pet Care, Can You Tell a Burqa from a Hijab?

By Michael J. Altman

…’s billboard story: A “My Life, My Death, My Choice, FinalExitNetwork.org” sign in New Jersey has stirred criticism from Catholics and suicide prevention groups. Mainline churches are struggling to maintain their buildings as memberships and offerings decline. Some Christians don’t see the point of buildings. House churches are growing among many Christians disillusioned with traditional church structures. As one observer put it, “For many, church…

The Mullet and the Mullahs: Iran’s War on Hair Reveals Ahmadinejad’s Weakness

By Hussein Rashid

…they also decided to ban several other haircuts. This move strikes me as a sign of impotence on the part of Ahmedinejad. As I have written about regarding the Saudi Arabians, decisions like this are an attempt to flex muscles that do not actually exist. The crackdown on the public sphere is something that is usually resented by Iranians. However, after the rise of the Green Movement last year, the crackdown on men’s hair can be seen as a way to ex…

Gulf Residents Urged to Unite in Prayer

By Lauri Lebo

…blown in from the Gulf of Mexico. When people face losing everything they love, prayer is a source of hope and comfort. However, the irony of our anti-science governor signing a prayer proclamation when he would not sign his name to protect the teaching of science is a bit much….

Every Homo Reptilia is Somebody’s Sister: Doctor Who Part VI

By Gabriel Mckee

…fspring, someone’s sibling, someone’s parent, or in some other way someone significant to someone else. As a survival mechanism we have a tendency to forge relationships of blood, friendship, or ideology, and then engage in competition with others who are at best more distantly related, and in some fashion “different” from us. It is for pointing out how morality based on such allegiances breaks down that I appreciate the parable of “the Good Samar…

Build the Muslim Community Center at Ground Zero

By Donna Schaper

…ot to know someone, had a swim or listened to a lecture. Forgiveness needs signs and symbols. Religious institutions need signs and symbols. Forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. But it could begin with a building permit at Ground Zero. Finally, that word love, which so many wrongly imagine as a soft verb. There is nothing soft about love. It is the most dangerous action in the world. Because we can’t love, because most of us do know the risks,…

Touchdown Jesus Burns to the Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e seen God’s work through that church serving them with that money.” Apparently, the church hasn’t learned its lesson: The church’s electronic sign had a simple message flashing Tuesday: “He’ll Be Back.”…

Muhammad and the Blind Man: A Lesson in Sensitivity

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…me reactions to the controversy –Newt Gingrich compares Park 51 to a “Nazi sign next to a Holocaust museum,” a Taliban operative warns that “the more mosques [America] stops, the more jihadis [the Taliban] will recruit,” and a Muslim cab driver in New York is stabbed in an apparent hate crime fueled by Park 51 hysteria. As I witness emotions on both sides of the Park 51 debate reach a fever pitch, I am reminded of my father’s efforts to build a mo…

Progressive Faith Leaders Rally to Keep Heat on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

By Alex McNeill

…ike the Human Rights Campaign’s Clergy Call lobby event and through clergy sign-on letters and letters to the editor. Retired chaplains have been speaking out to tell the truth about DADT and to tell their own powerful stories of pastoral ministry to lesbian and gay service members who were denied the freedom to serve their country simply because of who they are.” However, as Knox and the faith leaders working with him are well aware, the fight to…

Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s

By The Editors

…to our friends at The Revealer (they’ve relaunched… go check them out and sign up for their newsletter here): Yesterday [May 28th] Glenn Beck struck out at Simon Greer, President and CEO of Jewish Funds for Justice for his recent statement of support for government as a tool for protecting and facilitating the common good in society. Beck was moved by Greer’s rather moderate statement to respond, on his Premier Radio Networks show, thusly: This l…

Beyond Christianity or Creed: Religion of Realism from a Chicago Cop

By Spencer Dew

…write the terms on yet another scrap of paper. ‘Do they go together? Can a sign of the right realism be that it leads to this religion?’” With Whitman, with Melville, Preib feels and is drawn to “their strong conviction, a faith in their writing, a religious sense.” Indeed, he is a devotee of this religion himself; his car littered, literally, with fragments of thoughts and observations, artifacts of his commitment to “a kind of faith that lingers…