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When people discuss the rights of lesbians and gays in contemporary U.S. culture, and across religious denominations, the abbreviation "LGBT" is used as a shorthand: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. But are transgender people really being taken into account? What's the state of the struggle, where transpeople are concerned?
"Am I still your child, God?"
The Rev. Donald Schel ... more |
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| Source: | | Friday August 6th, 2010 |
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| The court ruling from Judge Vaughn Walker's on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 amendment against same-sex marriage. (CONT.) ... more |
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| Source: Heeb Magazine | | By: Jonathan Poritsky | | Wednesday May 26th, 2010 |
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| As you may have heard, Law & Order original recipe has been canceled (though rumors are rumbling it'll return for another season on TNT). Sure, the sexy crimes one is still around, but sometimes you just want your plain, not-too-kinky L&O, right? Now that we're doomed to watch re-runs forever, we' ... more |
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| One of the great American pastimes is playing "armchair quarterback" in the days following the Super Bowl – assessing the big plays and analyzing the prominent advertisements. A new nationwide Barna Group study explored one such high-profile television spot: the Super Bowl ad sponsored by Focus on the Family, featuring college quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother Pam discussing his survi ... more |
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| The influential political scientist Samuel P. Huntington theorized about the "clash of civilizations." The journalist and poet Eliza Griswold takes on the same topic in a much more visceral way: she traveled through the "torrid zone" to see, smell, taste and write about it. Her book "The Tenth Parallel" is a fascinating journey along the latitude line in Africa and Asia where Christianit ... more |
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A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More than a year and a half into his presidency, a plurality of the public says they do not know what religion Obama follows.
A new national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that nearly one-in-five Americans (18%) now say Obama is a Muslim, up f ... more |
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| Americans are almost evenly divided between those who feel science conflicts with religion and those who don't. Both sides have scientific backers. Biologist Richard Dawkins rallies atheists by arguing that science renders religious faith unnecessary and irrational. Geneticist Francis S. Collins (before becoming NIH director) organized evangelical scientists to offer a vision of science and fa ... more |
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| Although medicine is practised in a secular setting, religious and spiritual issues have an impact on patient perspectives regarding their health and the management of any disorders that may afflict them. This is especially true in psychiatry, as feelings of spirituality and religiousness are very prevalent among the mentally ill. Clinicians are rarely aware of the importance of religion and under ... more |
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With the increase in megachurches, the prominence of "parachurch" leaders and organizations, and the presence of hundreds of thousands of Americans who serve as clergy and church staff, one often overlooked group is the laity – or the unpaid, unheralded people who comprise the Christian community in America.
A new study from the Barna Group explores the profile of Americans who actively pa ... more |
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| Source: Gallup | | By: Frank Newport | | Monday May 24th, 2010 |
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Americans have become increasingly less tied to formal religion in recent decades, with the percentage saying they do not have a specific religious identity growing from near zero in the 1950s to 16% this year and last.
This upward trend in the percentage having no religious identity has been evident for a number of years in Gallup and other surveys.
Gallup began systematically track ... more |
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| Every summer, thousands gather from around the world in the blistering heat of Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the seven-day celebration of art, community, and fire known as Burning Man. Culminating in the spectacular incineration of a wooden effigy, this festival is grand-scale theater for self-expression, personal transformation, eclectic spirituality, communal bonding, and cultural renewal. ... more |
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| Have you ever noticed how the person who converts to a new religion, or philosophy of any kind, tends to be a whole lot more fanatical about their new faith than those who were born into it? Perhaps they feel a need to prove themselves in order to win acceptance as quickly as possible. Some people adopt a faith in the hope of finding answers to questions they have about life, others because they a ... more |
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| BQO, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, aims to ask and explore the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality, with a focus on science, religion, markets, morals, and the dynamic intersection among them. ... more |
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| "An album of 34 leaves containing Indian paintings and calligraphy, with two lithographs inserted, and a manuscript introduction of 5 leaves (viii-xi) and other notes by Sir Gore Ouseley (1770-1844). [..] The paintings ostensibly depict the Mughal royal lineage, but some have been misidentified." (go to site...) ... more |
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