Religion Dispatches
…or some portion of it, by offering rescue from the earth or warning us to stop destroying it. Via Goodchild, the Federation exhibits a similar concern: Friends of earth. Do not be afraid. We beseech you to TRUST that we come to bring the downfall of those who have misintentions for the well being of your planet. If we do not intervene now…as has been planned for eons of your earth time…then we fear it would be too late. Later, the Federation adds…
Read More…business of distributing “the most popular pork skins in America,” also lists pro-Stupak Bobby Bright as a client. Bright, also of Alabama, was recently profiled in the Times, too, for voting more with Republicans than Democrats (including against the health care bill, after demanding the inclusion of the Stupak amendment). What the party leadership is out of touch with is not Stupak, but its own constituents. In an ongoing discussion of the effi…
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…n the face of relentless media persecution and “naked bias” against “the fastest-growing religion on Earth.” In response to the “Truth Rundown,” Scientology’s Freedom magazine published a long rebuttal, claiming that the Times “had written hundreds of derogatory articles about the Scientology religion, consistently pounding the Church, its members and leaders with vituperative rumor, innuendo and allegation, all of which resulted in a hostile envi…
Read More…on. Catholics must organize Eucharistic processions and holy hours, they must fast and pray fervently for the cancellation of this event. We must petition our Lord, His Mother, and all the angels and saints in this fierce battle against the powers of hell. The opportunity to mobilize against self-described Satanists creates a kind of collective effervescence and its energy has already begun to transfer to other conservative causes. After decrying…
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…I am one of the religious leaders in this country who has one of the largest numbers of black gay churches in the U.S. gathered together. I don’t know anybody that has a larger number of black gay churches meeting together. Not gay churches—the MCC definitely has the corner on that. Do you work together? Very closely. In fact I have an MCC credential, an ordination. Were there times in your life when you did question your ability to stay in the…
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…sary-praying, placard-carrying screaming anti-abortionists on one of the most stressful days of their lives. Duin wonders what current DC Archbishop Donald Wuerl will do. To date, Wuerl has refused to consider denying communion to legislators who disagree with church policy on abortion legislation. He prefers he says, to be in dialogue on the issue. And indeed, many pro-choice Senators, Representatives, Supreme Court Justices and administration of…
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…s a “possibilian.” What does that mean? How is that different from an atheist or an agnostic? My personal view is that we know far too much at this particular moment in history to buy into the details of anybody’s particular religious story, and yet we know far too little to commit to a version of strict atheism, where we pretend like we have it all figured out, and that science gives us all the tools that we need to have a full understanding of w…
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…Equality Network. But the situation is delicate. “The global North can’t just go storming into the global South,” [Trudeau advisor] Mr. [Randy] Boissonnault said in an interview. “We have to work through our allies.” Then-British prime minister David Cameron probably did more harm than good in 2011, when he threatened to cut foreign-aid funding to countries that discriminated against homosexuals. A better approach, which Canada and the U.K. are jo…
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…ing placed on an image of a Hindu deity. To some Muslims, this offensive post justified attacks on Hindu shops, temples, and homes across Bangladesh. The violence didn’t stop here, though. In the neighboring Indian state of Tripura, Hindu extremist groups protesting the Bangladesh violence engaged in retaliatory attacks on the state’s Muslim minority. Sadly, it’s all too common for religious violence in South Asia to be spurred by incidents of “re…
Read More…unicate with attendees throughout this year’s World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia. His first message read: Young friend, God and his people expect much from u because u have within you the Fathers supreme gift: the Spirit of Jesus – BXVI. Now, as the Synod of Bishops meets in Rome, one person suggested Pope Benedict enter the blogoshere. Agnes Lam, president of the Catholic Biblical Association of Hong Kong and one of the few women permitted to a…
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