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Religion and natural disaster in Haiti
So close and yet so far
by Cecelia Lynch...as the promotion of “locally led paternalism” silly and uninformed at best. At worst, however, both the “rational aid” projects and the naïve schemes to save children by spiriting them...
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Beck, Falwell and “Christian America”
by John Schmalzbauer...and conservative Protestants. Already, Liberty’s decision has sparked a vigorous debate about the fine points of Mormon theology on Christianity Today‘s Politics Blog. Less obvious are disagreements about the theological...
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Happy National Day of Prayer
by Lydia BrawnerToday marks the 59th annual National Day of Prayer. The day was enacted by Congress in 1952 (36 U.S.C. § 119) after being initiated by Conrad Hilton of Hilton Hotels...
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Blood donations for Ashura in Lebanon
by Laura Duane...with black-clad devotees Wednesday, health workers manned mobile donation stations on the route of the march. “We are hoping to collect maybe 100 units of blood today,” said Shamoun Assaf...
An Atheism that Is Not Humanist
Antihumanism and religion
by Martin Kavka...play out today if the philosophers who intervene in them were as trained in physics as they are in evolutionary biology. Indeed, as Geroulanos notes in his concluding pages, the...
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Tamara Sonn on The Future of Islam
by Jake Alter...responsibility, in The Future of Islam he allows readers to develop “a degree of empathy with the situation[s]” of Muslims in the world today, and does not shrink from the...
Islam and the Secular State
Does tolerance require struggle?
by Jenny White...them into line with human rights and modern life. What I cannot find is the mechanism to get from where we are today to the tantalizing model An-Na’im lays out....
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The “next door” jihadists
by Todd Kesselman...narrative of self-realization that can be found in today’s media, from Oprah onwards, in combination with the labyrinth of the mixed messages teenagers are forced to metabolize, might be seen...