Search for "airline tickets and car rental packages cheap phone number 1-800-299-7264"

New Film Chronicles Unlikely Friendship in Battle Over God and Guns

By Sarah Posner

…minds. Schenck discovers that even members of his own staff have concealed carry permits; one staffer tells him he’s owned a gun since he was five years old. During a meeting of the Evangelical Church Alliance, which Schenck chairs, one member says guns are “in our DNA.” Another offers, “if we take guns away, people are just going to kill people with something else.” At a lunch meeting at a Capitol Hill restaurant, during which Schenck is attempti…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…ill go to Mina, etc. There is still no address for the hotels, but a local phone number. There is also information about processing customs at Jeddah, meeting the tour guide, and information that says “the group” will proceed to Makkah—which means the first will have to wait for the last person, which is the beginning of feeling like you are a group. They even include suggestions to “get to know” your fellow travelers. I still had no idea what wer…

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…religious word; it’s a human word.” A middle-aged couple on our right wear cardigans and expensive shoes and small fixed smiles on their faces, expectant and serene. Next to us sit three college-aged young men, one with a math book open on his lap, another intent on his iPhone. There are a lot of white people in this room; I scan for diversity and find a few people of color, but the audience is only consistently stratified by age. There are elderl…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…London who met up with the New Ways group received a blessing from British Cardinal Vincent Nichols. “I feel that the positive reaction that we have been getting from the hierarchy is due to the welcoming spirit of Pope Francis, who wants to welcome everyone,” said [Sister Jeannine] Gramick, speaking by phone from Assisi, the pilgrims’ last stop before heading to Rome. “It’s very heartening to people who have felt alienated and rejected for so lon…

The Immorality of Immortality

By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

…coincidentally, the dominant metaphor of de Grey’s program is the vintage car: as much as it can continue to run many years beyond the initial design of the car, provided it undergoes periodic, expensive maintenance, so can the human being postpone death indefinitely by undergoing periodic regenerations. The car metaphor indicates that for de Grey and other transhumanists humans are no more than a sum of their physiological processes, which are e…

Alienating Even the Sadistic Trumpian Right, How Did Kristi Noem Miscalculate So Badly With Her Puppy Killing Story?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…reported that he’d transported the family dog, an Irish Setter on top of a car during a 12-hour trip, scaring the dog, leaving it to have diarrhea—washing down the car and then continuing the trip with the terrified dog still strapped to the roof of the car. Incidentally, Romney refused to compare his scandal to Noem’s, declaring: “I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog, and my dog loved me.” While other former presidential candidates like John Ker…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he west of Spain, and it is headed by Bishop Gerardo Melgar Viciosa. The Vicar General of the diocese, Father Gabriel-Ángel Rodríguez, said that the same “prudence and charity” should be shown to same-gender couples, as is shown to heterosexual couples and single parents. The news story elaborated further on his explanation: “Father Rodríguez says the past few years have seen an upsurge in the number of baptisms into the Catholic Church in Spain o…

Is The Episcopal Church Driving Drunk?

By J. Terry Todd

…of the accident, Cook drove on. Another cyclist caught up to the Bishop’s car at a stoplight and rapped on the window. Cook stepped on the gas and disappeared into her gated apartment community. After calling a diocesan official, Cook returned to the scene, some 20 to 40 minutes later. And by then, Palermo was dead. The bishop wasn’t charged until days later, after an extensive police investigation and a social media campaign demanding her prosec…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…ssue involved in the dispute between the two Haredi men. Rosenberg owned a car which he had lent to Aberman. The younger man returned the care in what Rosenberg thought was bad condition and an acrimonious argument ensued. Within the ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel and elsewhere there are many ways to mediate and adjudicate disputes. Disputes are often taken to local and somewhat informal Rabbinic courts. The Haredim avoid the Israeli court s…

Saudi Women Take to the Twittersphere to Protest Driving Ban

By Joanna Brooks

…ing on donkey and horseback and comparing those forms of conveyance to the car. Maajid Nawaz, founder of the London-based anti-extremism think tank Quilliam, tweeted, “The Prophet Muhammad’s wife Aisha led an army on camel-back.” Others point out the economic injustice of a system that requires women to pay for a driver (at the cost of $300 a month) or else depend on the services of male relatives. According to Amnesty International, the current f…