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• Another story in the Iraqi whirlwind

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Politics, World Religions, World, Judaism, Islam

  Jewish community in the world,” he said, referring to the 597 B.C. Babylonian conquest of ancient Judah that brought the Jews to the region as captives. “The international community has done nothing to help these people,” Mr. White said, explaining that the group is trying to emigrate to an Iraqi Jewish enclave in the

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• And don’t wear white after Labor Day

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Pop Culture, World Religions, First Person, Sex

  The intersection of religion and dress is most fascinating to me. I grew up with a mother who was far and away the most fashionable pastor’s wife I knew. And then I also had acquaintances and neighbors involved in the Christian modesty movement, which required women to wear large pieces of fabric that covered them extensively. As I prepare

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• Expound on that news nugget

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:03 am

  Tags: Politics, Journalism, Religion, World Religions, World, Evangelicals

  with leader of the free world. Eleven paragraphs into the story about Feiler, who met with Bush after the president praised Feiler’s book Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, we’re told the following: In response, he said, the president portrayed himself as “a man of faith” who remains open to people of

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• Assume the official position

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Social Issues, Web Tech, Journalism, Academia, Religion, Creeping Fundamentalism, Anglicanism, World Religions, Catholicism, Evangelicals, Judaism, Islam, Sex, Mainline

  positions are for nine major religions: Roman Catholic, “Episcopalian”, Reform Judaism, Mormon, Muslim (mostly Sunni), Southern Baptist, United Methodist, Buddhist and Unitarian Universalist. Yes, Unitarian Universalism is a major world religion, isn’t it. Why not Zoroastrians? It’s also interesting to note what is

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• Ghost in the gorilla mists?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:32 am

  Tags: Politics, World Religions, World, Catholicism, Evangelicals, Science

  exotic species around the world that are in danger of being snuffed out, often by insane human hunting. This leads into a tragic sidebar about those famous gorillas in the Congo, written by reporter Scott Johnson. It seems that the gorillas are caught in the middle of another round of the hellish wars between the Hutu and Tutsis, with

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• Ghost in the gorilla mists?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:32 am

  Tags: Politics, World Religions, World, Catholicism, Evangelicals, Science

  exotic species around the world that are in danger of being snuffed out, often by insane human hunting. This leads into a tragic sidebar about those famous gorillas in the Congo, written by reporter Scott Johnson. It seems that the gorillas are caught in the middle of another round of the hellish wars between the Hutu and Tutsis, with

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• Assume the official position

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Social Issues, Web Tech, Journalism, Academia, Religion, Creeping Fundamentalism, Anglicanism, World Religions, Catholicism, Evangelicals, Judaism, Islam, Sex, Mainline

  positions are for nine major religions: Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Reform Judaism, Mormon, Muslim (mostly Sunni), Southern Baptist, United Methodist, Buddhist and Unitarian Universalist. Yes, Unitarian Universalism is a major world religion, isn’t it? Why not Zoroastrians? It’s also interesting to note what is missing. Where are

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• Expound on that news nugget

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:03 am

  Tags: Politics, Journalism, Religion, World Religions, World, Evangelicals

  with leader of the free world. Eleven paragraphs into the story about Feiler, who met with Bush after the president praised Feiler’s book Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, we’re told the following: In response, he said, the president portrayed himself as “a man of faith” who remains open to people of

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• Where is the ghost in this Sudan story?

  Published: August 5, 2007, 7:54 pm

  Tags: Politics, World Religions, World, Catholicism, Islam

  I know that this is a very old topic around here, but here I go again. The fact that people are being massacred in the Sudan is old news by this time. The fact that religion has a lot to do with it is old news, especially when you are dealing with the South Sudan — where Christians and animists have been dying for many years, in numbers that

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• ‘There is no Islam . . . without a Khilafah’

  Published: August 8, 2007, 2:07 pm

  Tags: Politics, Journalism, World Religions, World, Islam

  structure in the Muslim world, it’s a police state,” said Mohammed Baig, 28, a second-generation British Indian who is an asset manager specializing in corporate governance and has been a Tahrir party member for seven years. “You have the public opinion underground, and then staged public opinion in the media.” Most

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• Trying to probe the senseless

  Published: August 12, 2007, 7:45 pm

  Tags: Politics, People, World Religions, Islam

  The Washington Post had a religion-related story the other day that just left me numb with shock. At least, I think it was a religion-related story. That’s the point. I really couldn’t tell. So let’s be clear that I am not saying that there was a religion hole in this page-one story. It’s an amazing story, filling in

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• So is prayer a right or not?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:38 am

  Tags: Politics, World Religions, Islam

  For years now, I have been arguing that when people in public education face a revolt by conservative Christians or Orthodox Jews, they should play the following mind game. When these conservative parents arrive to make their complaints — raising questions about school curriculum, equal access for prayer groups, etc., etc. —

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• CSM: Violence inspires religious devotion in Iraq

  Published: August 15, 2007, 12:39 pm

  Tags: Politics, Journalism, World Religions, Islam

  Who would have thought that religious story out of Iraq, or the Middle East for that matter, have something to do with subjects unrelated to headscarves and terrorism? In an unfortunately short, The Christian Science Monitor’s correspondent Sam Dagher writes about how Iraqis are turning to their faith as their country is torn apart by

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• Knowing a beat inside and out

  Published: August 16, 2007, 12:15 am

  Tags: Politics, Godbeat, People, World Religions

  James Faust, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1978, died on Friday. He also served in the high-ranking position of second counselor to President Gordon Hinckley since 1995. Salt Lake Tribune reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack has been all over the story. From the very first article

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• Mammon’s global reach

  Published: August 21, 2007, 11:23 am

  Tags: Social Issues, World Religions, Evangelicals, Islam, Worship, Mainline

  the center of the Muslim world. They will also see Starbucks. And Cartier and Tiffany. And H&M and Topshop. The Abraj al Bait Mall — one of the largest in Saudi Arabia, outfitted with flat-panel monitors with advertisements and announcements, neon lights, an amusement park ride, fast-food restaurants and a lingerie shop —

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