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• More U.S. Christians mix in ‘Eastern,’ New Age beliefs

  
  Christian Research Net — Authority: 141
  USA TODAY Going to church this Sunday? Look around. The chances are that one in five of the people there find “spiritual energy” in mountains or trees, and one in six believe in the “evil eye,” that certain people can cast curses with a look — beliefs your Christian pastor doesn’t preach. In a Catholic ...
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• Unitarian Universalism: An American Faith

  
  The Reformed Reader — Authority: 123
  This will work quite well in the United States, though biblical Christian churches must flee from it like the plague.  Of course, I think this is the opposite of historic Christianity, but I post the following dialogue to show you part of the “core-values” of many Americans who are “religious.”  This kind ...
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• Jim Wallis, Jimmy Carter and Dalai Lama Headline The Parliament of the World’s Religions

  
  Christian Research Net — Authority: 141
  Red Letter Socialist Jim Wallis and former president Jimmy “New Covenant” Carter join the Dahlia Lama and a host of representives of the world’s religions in this annual international event. See the video at Watcher’s Lamp.
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• “Death and glory” all the way!

  
  Yet Another Unitarian Universalist — Authority: 423
  In the middle and late 19th century, Universalists spent quite a bit of time arguing about the afterlife. Sure, they agreed that every human being was going to be saved; they were Universalists after all. But some Universalists (an increasing number as the 19th century went on) believed that there would be some form ...
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• Tony Campolo and Max Lucado on Hell...

  
  Mercy Not Sacrifice — Authority: 422
  This is sort of an afterthought about yesterdays post. I recently posted excerpts from a discussion between Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo about interfaith dialogue. Within In the course of the discussion Tony said the following... Catholicism would say that at the moment of death every person is ...
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• The Gates of Hell - Claiborne and Rohr...

  
  Mercy Not Sacrifice — Authority: 422
  While surfing...er....researching....... recently, I came upon comments from two preacher/teachers about hell. These guys might appear, on the surface, to come from different worlds (galaxies?) The theme song from the Patty Duke show comes to mind when I think about these two..... One pair of matching ...
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• Brian McLaren Directly Assaults Discernmentalists

  
  The Online Discernmentalist Mafia — Authority: 422
  Discernmentalists, we are under direct attack on a daily basis. We need to rally to arms and put on the aggressive defense. Just last month  Brian McLaren directly assaulted Uncle Ken Silva  and Aunt Ingrid Schlueter of Slice Of  Laodicea. Ingrid was caught yelling in a headlock: What an appallingly ...
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• An Advent for Unitarian Universalists

  
  A Unitarian Universalist Minister in the South — Authority: 106
  The congregation I serve in Mississippi  had a guest minister (whose theology is Universalist Christian) come and preach on November 29th.  He asked the church to have an Advent wreath with candles to light.  The congregation decided to keep the Advent wreath for the remainder of the season up to the Christmas Eve ...
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• Daily Zizek: on the sacredness of questioning

  
  metalepsis — Authority: 92
  “What is perceived here as the problem is precisely the Christian universalism: what this all-inclusive attitude (recall St. Paul’s famous “There are no men or women, no Jews and Greeks”) involves is a thorough exclusion of those who do not accept inclusion into the Christian community. In other ...
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• Tasting the Perimeter: The Porn Bible and God Loves Fags

  
  The Dunedin School — Authority: 491
  A few years ago, evangelical Christian, Craig Gross started handing out “Jesus Loves Porn Stars” Bibles at erotica conventions, which provided a titillating story for the mainstream media  to exploit. His ministry, which includes an online church for those suffering from porn addiction ( XXXChurch.com ), has ...
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• Hell: my research on places, verses and problems

  
  Tad DeLay — Authority: 410
  I get a daily tally of terms people are Googling to reach my site.  Recently, I’ve noticed a sharp upturn in people landing on my site by searching about “Hell.”  Aside from this post , I haven’t written much on the subject, but I figure the least I could contribute is a bit of research I’ve accumulated ...
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• How to respond to postmodernism, relativism, subjectivism, pluralism and skepticism

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  Four articles from Paul Copan over at the UK site “BeThinking”. Each article responds to a different slogan that you might hear if you’re dealing with non-Christians on the street. “That’s just your interpretation!” Some of his possible responses: Gently ask, ‘Do you mean that your interpretation ...
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• Using Language

  
  A Unitarian Universalist Minister in the South — Authority: 106
  I linked my previous post “Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men” on my Facebook page where it seems the title caused a couple of my friends to chastise me for not using inclusive language.  There is a difference I believe when using traditional  language versus using inclusive language. In writing this ...
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• Peace on Earth; Good Will Toward Men

  
  A Unitarian Universalist Minister in the South — Authority: 106
  Peace on Earth; Good Will Toward Men was originally published in the Our Home Universalist Unitarian monthly newsletter for December 2009.     Another year is coming to a close and our thoughts begin to drift to the holidays of gift giving, parties, and celebrating each other’s company.  These are all good ...
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• If you’re interested in church social media . . .

  
  Boy in the Bands — Authority: 112
  Or manage a church website or some such, be sure to read (and subscribe to the feed of) Unitarian Communications , advice from the Unitarian and Free Christian media office. Good stuff. Note: my first time blogging from a plane! Share this Hide Sites
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• How to defend Christian exclusivism from the challenge of religious pluralism

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  Recently, I had posted a debate from the Unbelievable radio show, which is broadcast in the UK. The topic of the debate was whether India should pass an anti-conversion law to prevent Christians from trying to convert people to Christianity. Basically, many Hindus in India want Christians to adopt the Hindu notions of ...
  2 weeks ago

• 0.178: The Social Production of Science and Anthropology as Knowledge for Domination

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 109
  The intellectual heritage of European expansion that we inherit as anthropologists – certainly not without modification and criticism – is again the subject in this series. If Immanuel Wallerstein explained which agendas became dominant with the institutionalization of the social sciences, with some notes on why ...
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• Brannon Howse Warns That Emergents Are Actually Communistic Atheists

  
  The Online Discernmentalist Mafia — Authority: 422
  Brannon Howse using GOIP Tech and STRETCH Technology ’s Hellescope discernmentalizes that Emergents are actually Atheistic Communists: Emerging Trouble  The pastors and authors of one of America’s fastest growing spiritual movements, the Emergent Church, sing the praises of socialism. As I’ll ...
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• Mike Morrell’s Romanist Leanings

  
  The Online Discernmentalist Mafia — Authority: 422
  If ye haven’t read my first post exposing Mike  do so or else. The second thing that concerns us about  Mike Morrell’s post  is Mike’s Romanist leanings . Ken Silva is quoted as saying: What utter and complete blasphemy. May the Lord reveal Himself to you and open your eyes to the idol you have ...
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• 0.179: Imperialism, Americanization, and the Social Sciences

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 109
  Cultural imperialism rests on the power to universalize particularisms linked to a singular historical tradition by causing them to be misrecognized as such. (Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1999, p. 41) If the social sciences are Eurocentric, does this also mean that they are imperialist? Where Immanuel ...
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