Religion Dispatches
…May 21 is not the actual end of the world, according to Camping’s WeCanKnow.com. Rather, that’s merely the day of the Tribulation and Christ’s return. The big day is Oct. 21, 2011. That’s the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” This is not the first time Camping has predicted Judgment Day: On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping’s believers gathered inside Alameda’s Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an…
Read More…slim Yasir Qadhi PhD Candidate, Yale University Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) Contact: no-torture@islamicate.com…
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…ized as a troubling pattern at America’s “paper of record.” https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1617208577919254529?s=20&t=Q5eedN0I4QspANGB8KuDGA The article, written by Katie J.M. Baker, focuses on the resentment some parents feel when they discover their children have been allowed to socially transition at school, using names and pronouns in the classroom that are different from those they use at home. In some states, such as California, when hi…
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…I’ll be sharing updates from my Satanic escapades worldwide on my social media @LaCarmina and website www.lacarmina.com.…
Read More…ir statement certainly adds a lot of weight to Kopplin’s argument that LSEA is a “job-killing law.” Kopplin’s web site repealcreationism.com provides more information about the campaign….
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…line video entitled “A Special Tribute” to Michael Jackson posted on Tangle.com, a faith-based, family-friendly social networking site. Like many amateur videos online, this three-minute work features a Powerpoint slide show of pictures, accompanied by song and subtitles. However, what is especially interesting for contemporary religion and cultural expressions are the ways faith believers shape and appropriate popular cultural content in line wit…
Read More…ual relations, prostitution and pimping,” according to the website 76Crimes.com. The article quotes the officer in charge of the case: “Lesbians, gay men, men who sleep with men, women who sleep with women, men who act that way — all that is illegal. It’s non-negotiable, except at the prosecutors’ office. These are people who are controlled by an evil spirit.” Kenya: Human Rights Watch Urges Gov’t to Allow NGOs to Work Human Rights Watch this week…
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…imagines Newton first heard it—all feeling, no words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknMdAlVN4I#t=4m48s The only problem with the moving backstory that inspired this evocative rendition is that is probably not true. The melody now known and beloved as “Amazing Grace” joined Newton’s verses decades after he composed them. Without a doubt, many spirituals do have their melodic roots in pre-Christian traditions the enslaved brought with them acro…
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…going on. For those who genuinely ask “What can we do to help?” the answer is simple: Muslim women need allies. But allies are not saviors, disparagers, or dictators. Allies listen with depth, humility and compassion. Allies amplify the voices of others, rather than their own. And allies come to the table with a respect for the humanity, diversity and agency of those they wish to support….
Read More…nfortunately, not enough Christians understand that Pharisees went on to become the dominant tradition in modern Judaism. Nor do many Christians get that the New Testament sees Pharisees through a partisan lens, as it were. They were rivals to the nascent Jesus movement, and often their rhetorical targets. Second and more positively, Buttigieg speaks of the need to represent all comers, religious or not. Good on him for that. Much of the discussio…
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