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• Catholic Hierarchy Threatens the Capital’s Homeless

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 418
  For the second time in a week, the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church has jumped into sexual politics at a time when conservatives are trying to make sexuality and reproductive rights a divisive issue in health care reform. Last week the Conference of Catholic Bishops got involved in vetting and promoting ...
  14 hours ago

• Boundaries

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 474
  Patrick Kennedy, Congressman and member of a very famous and very political Catholic family, initiated a public dispute with his bishop as he demonstrated a rather Protestant understanding of his obligations. From the First Things Blog : Patrick Kennedy, the congressman from Rhode Island, wrote, “The fact that I ...
  1 day ago

• The LDS Church, Gay Rights, and Religious Freedom in Utah

  
  RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY — Authority: 421
  Our newest contributor to the blog, Christopher Jones, needs no introduction. He has posted here before, and posts regularly at the excellent blog Juvenile Instructor. Chris is a Ph.D. student at William and Mary, where he plans to work on earlier American religious history, and down the road a bit he plans to post on ...
  1 day ago

• The enemy of their enemies

  
  The Reality-Based Community — Authority: 137
  Christianists begin to make common cause with Islamists over gay rights and evolution.
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• When bringing Christianity into the jury box, bring all of it

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 580
  Ive ignored until now a Texas case receiving international notoriety in which jurors consulted some of the more punitive verses in the Christian Bible during deliberations in a death penalty case. Its been getting wide play elsewhere because it hits on two culture-war touchstones - the death penalty and church-state ...
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• Less than equal

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 474
  Although South Carolina has more than two hundred other specialty license plates, this one is unacceptable. When it comes to free speech, Christians [and presumably other faiths] have fewer rights than those promoting other ideas. From TheState.com : A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina cant issue ...
  2 days ago

• False compassion

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 474
  In Edinburgh for a conference, Wesley J Smith reads a story about a mother who, feeling abandoned and beleaguered by the responsibility for a seriously disabled daughter, wishes for her a comfortable death. Smith : .... What is really being said–in the way we abandon many families such as the Myersons to their ...
  2 days ago

• Religion in the military

  
  On Faith — Authority: 523
  The Fort Hood shootings have raised questions again about how the military should handle the personal religious beliefs of its soldiers, whether they are evangelical Christians, Muslims, Wiccans, and so on. What is the proper role of religion -- and personal religious belief -- in the U.S. armed forces? Should a ...
  3 days ago

• Gluttony

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 474
  Once again a call for government action to save us from ourselves. The evildoers are those who endeavor to discover what we like and then provide it. Once upon a time the responsibility for resisting temptation lay upon the one being tempted. No longer — we are all victims. Jacob Sullum reviews The End of ...
  5 days ago

• Fort Hood: The Jewish Response

  
  The Reality-Based Community — Authority: 137
  Now is the time for the Jewish community to do its part in ensuring that the Fort Hood outrage does not lead to anti-Muslim or anti-Arab hysteria.
  1 week ago

• A note I prepared on theology of mission in Johns gospel

  
  Sze Zeng — Authority: 127
  1) The fourth gospel itself is a mission-oriented medium; a missionary artefact (John 20.31). That means it is produced wholly for the sake of extending the initiated yet unfinished work of Jesus Christ (John 4.34). 2) Jesus Christ is portrayed as the co-eternal divine agent who was on a mission in the world to ...
  1 week ago

• More Liberal Sneers at the "Great Unwashed"

  
  The Seventh Sola — Authority: 119
  Weve always known that the left consists of elitists who consider the rest of us too stupid to govern ourselves. Actor Ted Danson offers the latest proof. Keep this in mind when you watch the headlines and listen to what liberals say as they urge passage of their health care monstrosity, or other "solutions" to ...
  1 week ago

• "Life not worth living"

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 474
  Notoriously, the Nazis initiated a program to "euthanize" the disabled and mentally retarded. Today that is the justification for many abortions. In Britain, it may soon be the justification for killing children that have survived birth. Not long ago, Western society discouraged people from acting on the belief that ...
  1 week ago

• Coyne Of The Realm

  
  Cutting Through The Crap — Authority: 108
  The above is an excellent summary of the evidence for evolution. If my readers whove claimed "there are problems with evolution" can ignore a certain amount of anti-religious snark, its a very good presentation. Somewhat as an aside, the question at the very end brings one to understand my concerns about the way ...
  1 week ago

• Knowing "how" to learn is no substitute for learning

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 474
  Those who suffer the most from public educations deficiencies are the ones whose parents and home environment cannot compensate and who have no alternatives. They, especially, deserve good public schools. "E.D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy" by Sol Stern, from City Journal describes an important part of the ...
  1 week ago

• Here and there

  
  Sze Zeng — Authority: 127
  I spent the last whole week co-authoring with Steven Sim a theological response towards Malaysias 2010 Budget . It was an enriching experience as I had the opportunity to theologically think through social and financial matters. I found out that it is easier to just engage the national budget through secular ...
  1 week ago

• Es tu Paganus?

  
  Antiquitopia — Authority: 124
  As all hallows eve approaches, the NYTimes has an article on the polytheistic background of the highly commercialized holiday (well, arent all holidays these days?): the autumnal festival of Samhain. Many people probably know that most of our "Christian" holidays rely upon an older calendar of European religious ...
  1 week ago

• Religious Useful Idiots

  
  Doug Bandow — Authority: 131
  Mark Tooley of the Institute on Religion and Democracy writes about the World Council of Churches, which sent a delegation to North Korea.  Alas, the churchmen lived up to the old standard of being useful idiots, apparently being taken in by what is probably the worst, most brutal regime on earty.Tooley observes:In a ...
  1 week ago

• On the scope of skeptical inquiry

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  There has been much discussion lately on this blog and elsewhere about the relationships among skepticism, atheism, and politics. I have roundly criticized Richard Dawkins for extending scientific skepticism into areas that are more properly the domain of philosophical analysis, as well as Penn and Teller and Michael ...
  2 weeks ago

• The only real question

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 474
  A newly discovered site that makes the anti-abortion case well and without invoking religious belief: The Case For Life. From the first page: The abortion controversy is not a debate between those who are pro-choice and those who are anti-choice. Its not about privacy or trusting women. To the contrary, the ...
  2 weeks ago

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