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The Guidelines: random notes from pop cultureThere are copious strings to 50 Cent's platinum bow. As well as being a rapper, self-help guru and inspiration to many, he's an actor and videogame voiceover artiste. Recently adde (Read More)
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Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world warThe friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student da (Read More)
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The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itselfAn academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity to visit the Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg w (Read More)
L.A. Times - Opinion Blog:
America's Roman Catholic bishops aren't completely obsessed by abortion and gay marriage. My former colleague Ann Rodgers, one of the best religion reporters around, reports in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that bishops have be (Read More)
SF Gate:
Three South Carolina men have been found guilty of bilking thousands of investors out of more than $80 million. A federal jury of four men and eight women deliberated for less than four hours Friday before finding Timothy McQ (Read More)
Now Public Citizen Journalism:
Shroud of Turin Now Verified As Authentic By Vatican Historian
Jesus' burial cloth is proven to be authentic according to the Vatican researcher. The unnamed researcher claims the nearly invisible text on the...read more. (Read More)
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Converts to Rome cannot pick and choose, says Vincent Nichols, as Rowan Williams and pope prepare to meetAnglicans should not become Catholic to protest against female clergy or sexual ethics, the archbishop of Westminster sa (Read More)
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The Anglican church should no longer put the virtue of uniformity above the need to challenge prejudice and suffering"United we stand, divided we fall" is a common saying. Likewise there is a Japanese proverb "A single arrow (Read More)
SF Gate:
A group of Coal River Valley residents is speaking out about a Massey Energy Co. mining operation near Whitesville. Five residents from the region plan to air their concerns at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Charl (Read More)
Fox News:
White House is in an intractable dispute with Catholic bishops over abortion that could blow up fragile political coalition behind Obama's health care overhaul• Abortion, Public Plan Among Hurdles in Senate Debate• Read the H (Read More)
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Roger Helmer says Anglican hierarchy has dropped the gospel in favour of 'the new religion of climate alarmism'A Tory MEP has accused the Church of England of having "abandoned religious faith entirely and taken up the new re (Read More)
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Two lawyers say discussion of rights and religious freedom was suppressed during US president's 'disappointing' visitTwo Chinese rights activists said today that they were briefly detained by police after seeking a meeting wi (Read More)
The Immanent Frame:
In a symposium convened by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West (Read More)
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Both main approaches to church unity have failed. Perhaps what we need is a flow chartAmong the stranger Anglican blogs out there is The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley, which has published a flow chart that will be helpful t (Read More)
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Boiling the complex issue of population decline down to selfishness, as the chief rabbi has done, is absurdThe question: Are we too selfish to survive?The chief rabbi's comments were the most muddled of any recent religious l (Read More)
Religion Dispatches:
Controversial Muslim Scholar Tariq Ramadan, banned from travel to the United States, spoke in Montreal last week at the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion. In a question-and-answer session he answered accus (Read More)