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Muslims and Mormons in America

By and others ⋅ August 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sightings 8/8/2011 — Martin E. Marty  ¢â‚¬Å“Americans Feel Warmest Toward Jews, Mainline Protestants, and Catholics ¢â‚¬  was a much-discussed headline in last year ¢â‚¬â„¢s much-discussed  American Grace, a survey-rich book on paradoxes in American religious life. The subtitle was  How Religion Divides and Unites Us. Sample: non-Jewish, non-Catholic Americans, when asked toward which group  ¢â‚¬Å“other than your own ¢â‚¬  do […]

The simple life (Richard Rohr)

By and others ⋅ August 6, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Saturday, August 6, 2011 Festival of the Transfiguration of Jesus We are all complicit in and benefit from what Dorothy Day called  ¢â‚¬Å“the dirty rotten system. ¢â‚¬  That ¢â‚¬â„¢s not condemning anybody; it ¢â‚¬â„¢s condemning everybody because we are all complicit and enjoying the fruits of domination and injustice. (Where were your shirts and underwear made?) Usually the […]

AN ALTERNATIVE CHRISTIAN VIEW ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

By and others ⋅ August 5, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Muriel PorterABC RELIGION AND ETHICSUPDATED 5  AUG  2011 (FIRST POSTED 4  AUG  2011) THERE IS SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT FOR GAY PEOPLE AND THEIR HOPES OF MARRIAGE ACROSS THE MAINSTREAM CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN THIS COUNTRY. SOME WORSHIPPERS THEMSELVES ARE GAY, AND SO ARE SOME CLERGY.CREDIT: CREATAS (THINKSTOCK)  Support for legalising same-sex marriage is running high in the Australian community at present, […]

Review: Allah: A Christian Response (Miroslav Volf) by Mark Durie

By and others ⋅ August 5, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Author: Miroslav Volf Publisher: New York: HarperOne Publication Date: 2010 Reviewer: Mark Durie 326pp.  ¢â‚¬ËœHot and spicy ¢â‚¬â„¢  ¢â‚¬“ but who does this Allah convince?  ¢â‚¬ËœDo we worship the same God? ¢â‚¬â„¢   This has become a hotly contested and divisive question, posed in these troubled days by many Christians about Muslims and Islam.   Influential theologian Miroslav Volf, […]

Homeless Grace

By and others ⋅ August 5, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

BRIAN DOYLE  AUGUST 01, 2011 Poem for Grace Farrell (1976 ¢â‚¬“2011) A thin column in the newspaper; she died in an alcove Outside Saint Brigid’s Church. She was from Wicklow. She had been an artist. She came here at age seventeen. She drank. She married a man who slept on the avenue, Not near the church. He […]

INDONESIA: DANGEROUS DAYS FOR CHRISTIANS

By and others ⋅ August 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 119 | Wed 03 Aug 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal China is not landlocked, but it might as well be. China’s coast does not open to the Pacific Ocean (where the US Navy is supreme) but opens to the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the […]

Breivik’s Christianity

By and others ⋅ August 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sightings 8/1/2011 — Martin E. Marty Sightings returns to work after a month away. Start with a timely quiz. Q: What do the following have in common? Anders Behring Breivik, killer of scores of innocents in Norway; assassins Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK) and Sirhan Sirhan (RFK); serial killers: Dennis Rader (Kansas, murdered 10); Charles Starkweather […]

A CONSISTENT ETHIC OF LIFE (Richard Rohr)

By and others ⋅ August 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Richard’s Daily Meditations In recent elections one would have thought that homosexuality and abortion were the new litmus tests of Christianity. Where did this come from? They never were the criteria of proper membership for the first 2000 years, but reflect very recent culture wars instead! And largely from people who think of themselves as […]

Is there a God? Review of Lennox/Singer Debate

By and others ⋅ August 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

http://www.iscast.org/lennox_singer_debate_review Submitted by admin on Wed, 27/07/2011 by James Garth (ISCAST) July 2011 The Debate – Introduction: The Fixed Point Foundation sponsored a debate in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday 20th July 2011 on the topic “Is There a God?”. The debate featured Princeton University Bio-ethicist and atheist Peter Singer and Oxford University Professor and Christian […]

CRIME: IS TOUGHER SENTENCING THE ANSWER?

By and others ⋅ July 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

July 29 By Alan Matheson The Vic Govt  is doing  a “Sentencing Survey” through the pages of the tabloid press (Herald Sun). http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/have-your-say-on-justice-and-sentencing/story-fn7x8me2-1226102413896 The Govt is ignorant,or confused or devious and manipulative. This kind of ‘self selected survey’ has no credibility or scientific validity:   it’s  a travesty, and a nasty piece of political populism. A letter from Vic […]

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