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• in Green
  Faith and Being Green
  Interfaith ministries promote environmental awareness
  by yihyeewong / on Jun 3, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “faiths”

 

• Douglas Murray—Jonathan Sacks is right: the new atheists have only opened a discussion

  
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  I know there are some non-believers in particular who find this debate uncomfortable or frustrating. But my impression is that there are a far larger number who find it rewarding, having felt for some time that the discussion needs to go beyond the ‘Is it true?’ rut. As the Chief Rabbi shows, the place the ‘new ...
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• (Spectator) Jonathan Sacks—Atheism has failed. Only religion can defeat the new babarians

  
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  Some people get religion; others don’t. Why not leave it at that? Fair enough, perhaps. But not, I submit, for readers of The Spectator, because religion has social, cultural and political consequences, and you cannot expect the foundations of western civilisation to crumble and leave the rest of the building ...
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• (NPR) A Meeting On Muslims, Christians and Civility Turns Into A Shouting Match

  
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  The public meeting in Manchester, Tenn., about 70 miles from Nashville, was supposed to address and tamp down discrimination toward Muslims there. But instead it turned into a shouting match. Bill Killian, the local U.S. attorney who organized the meeting, told the people in attendance that hate speech was not ...
  6 days ago

• (Reasonable Faith) A Muslim Considers Christianity

  
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  Hello Dr. Craig, I would first like to acknowledge your intellectual and humble manner in defending Christianity. I am Muslim though and I have a few questions for you about Islam that you might answer. I would tremendously appreciate it if you could answer back, I am on the brink of considering Christianity but I ...
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• Understanding the Bishops

  
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  There’s been a lot of nonsense written about what the statement from the Bishop of Leicester following the Second Reading in the Lords of the Same-Sex Marriage Bill actually means, chiefly down to the spin that the Telegraph put on it. However, if you read the statement carefully you can see that the Church of ...
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• (RNS) Atheists to unveil first monument to unbelief on public land

  
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  After years of fights over religious monuments on public land, a county courthouse in Northern Florida will soon be the home of the nation’s first monument to atheism on public property. On June 29, the group American Atheists will unveil a 1,500-pound granite bench engraved with secular-themed quotations from ...
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• (LAROB) Simon Critchley—John Gray’s Godless Mysticism: On “The Silence of Animals”

  
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  Human Beings do not just make killer apps. We are killer apes. We are nasty, aggressive, violent, rapacious hominids, what John Gray calls in his widely read 2002 book, Straw Dogs, homo rapiens. But wait, it gets worse. We are a killer species with a metaphysical longing, ceaselessly trying to find some meaning to ...
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• (Courier-Journal) Albert Mohler: The ELCA as a Lutheran body is ‘not a church’

  
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  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler says the nation’s largest Lutheran body is “not a church.” He says the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America only lives up to a quarter of its name, citing the Southwest California Synod’s election of the first openly gay bishop in the ...
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• SHOCK: Francis FORCED To Be Pope… ‘I Didn’t Want To Be Pope’

  
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  FRANCIS GETS PERSONAL: ‘I DIDN’T WANT TO BE POPE’ Pope Francis has revealed that he never wanted to be pope and that he’s living in the Vatican hotel for his “psychiatric” health. ...
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• (First Things) Gerald McDermott—No, the God of the Qur’an is Not the God of the Bible

  
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  Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? Since the devastating attacks of 9/11—when the world saw afresh that religion has geo-political consequences, and that Islam is the most volatile religion on the world’s stage—more and more Christians have been asking this question. Yale theologian Miroslav Volf ...
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• Muslim clerics reach out with tolerance on trip to Jewish holocaust sites

  
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  Lys Anzia – WNN Religion & Belief (WNN) Krakow, POLAND, EASTERN EUROPE: As global Muslim religious leaders, along with Islamic scholars, activists and laypersons traveled to Europe in May 2013 to see the plight of the Jews during what history has outlined as the Holocaust of the 1930s and 1940s, their trip was ...
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• (CNN Belief Blog) Melody Moezzi—A plea from an exhausted Muslim woman

  
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  I wasn’t surprised by former British Prime Minister Tony Blairs recent statement about a “problem within Islam.” Its not as though Ive never heard anything like it before. I hear it all the time. Still, his words – in response to a recent attack in London that left a British soldier dead – made me wonder: ...
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• Soda Sisters

  
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  After a tour on World Faiths in Art at VMFA , a sip of the classic "Id like to teach the world to sing..." beverage seemed in order....   Perfect harmony...with a bubble or two of sass.
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• Jesus and the Roman Officer: A commonality of practice

  
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  Jesus was surprised ( Luke 7. 1 - 10 ). This is worthy of note because the Gospels only record two occasions when Jesus was said to have been surprised. Firstly, he was amazed that his own, hometown people rejected him, and secondly that this gentile officer accepted him. There is much about this story and this ...
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• Shia youth continue to head to Syria for war marked by centuries-old split in faith

  
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  The Shia news service Ahlulbayt featured a photo essay about recruiting young fighters for the civil war in Syria. (Snip: Ahlulbayt) Young Shiites continue to head to Syria to fight in a war marked by the centuries-old split in Islam. The Shiites support President Bashir al-Assad whose beliefs are Alawite according ...
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• Engaging Compassion – Words of Wisdom from the Dalai Lama in Louisville, KY

  
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  “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” ~Muhammad Ali His Holiness the Dalai Lama blessed the city of Louisville with a three day visit last week as part of the city’s annual Festival of Faiths. He had a laugh that lit up the room and immediately brought tears [...] Please click the ...
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• Woolwich atrocity: religious groups unambiguously condemn barbaric terrorism

  
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  London Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Zoroastrians – representatives of all these religions spoke with one voice tonight. This statement is from the Faiths Forum for London: We, as representatives of many of Londons faith communities, deplore the terrible attack that has taken place ...
  4 weeks ago

• Attention Artists!

  
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  Sometimes words just aren’t enough. And for when the written word cannot express an idea or feeling or experience fully the visual arts- painting, sculpture, textiles, film and multi-media- are there to access the individual subconscious and the wider collective unconscious to convey meaning and experience  in a ...
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