Mental Illness, A Spiritual Deficiency?
A new campaign aims to change attitudes around mental illness.
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Atlanta Falcons “Defend the Dome”: Football, Religion, and Existential Power
The Atlanta Falcons, defenders of the Georgia Dome, “fought, harassed, stuffed, smothered, and smacked” their way to victory last week. What is it about football that brings out such primal intensity in its fans?
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Slouching Towards Lake Wobegon; Searching for Meaning in the Google Cloud
Has the shift from sociability to social-networking left Garrison Keillor clinging to his Wobegone Lutherans of yesteryear? What of the glaring problems of those “simpler times?”
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Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.
From essays on same-sex segregation in Orthodoxy to the Jewish case against marriage to queer theology, this collection—edited by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg—offers everything you ever wanted to know about Judaism and sexuality but were afraid to ask.
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Art as Religion, Museum as Temple
For the Greeks, museums were sacred places dedicated to the muses. How is it that the Catholic Church got into the pagan shrine business?
Read MoreConservative Christians Struggle With Christianity
It seems as if Beck, Conservapedia and others are trying to call themselves Christian when what they are espousing has nothing to do with Christian brotherly love.
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Harry Potter Gone Bad: Lev Grossman’s The Magicians
The characters in this adult, anti-fantasy novel of hope (and magic) lost appear to teach the lesson that Harry Potter probably ended up hating himself, and life, after the end of book seven. But would a less dour novel have been so highly praised?
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Is the Boson Particle “Hated by God”?
Two eminent physicists have hypothesized that the Higgs boson might be hated by God to such an extent that if one occurred it would go back in time and stop itself from being made.
Read MoreColbert “The Word” on SCOTUS Establishment Case
Does the cross work as a universal symbol for our war dead including Jews, Muslims, and atheists? It works for “Ply-druids.”
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The Man of Science vs. The Man of Faith: Richard Dawkins Spars with Stephen Colbert
Once again Comedy Central is the forum for calm, reasoned debate.
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