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All due respect | The Christian Century

Seeded on Mon Aug 1, 2011 12:05 PM EDT (The Christian Century)

With regard to egregious wrongdoing, we respect the wrongdoer but despise the wrongdoing.

religion

Video | Faith in Technology

Seeded on Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:45 PM EDT (Ministry Matters/ CBS News)

CBS News Sunday Morning looks at the relationship between religion and technology, and how various faiths are using the Internet.

religion, culture

Christian churches in the United States and the practice of ordaining homosexual clergy

Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:22 PM EDT

Many people hold fast to the idea that Christianity as a whole is explicity opposed to the inclusion of LGBTQI individuals into the church. This, however, is simply not true.

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religion, homosexuality, christianity

Democracy Threatened in Michigan: State Legislature Passes "Emergency Manager Bill"

Seeded on Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:05 PM EDT (Daily Tribune)

A day after facing hundreds of rowdy, pro-union protesters that filled the state Capitol, the Senate voted on Wednesday to grant broad new powers to emergency managers who oversee financially struggling cities and schools, including the authority to void union contracts and remov …

michigan, gop, republicans, unions, us-news, anti-union, collective-bargaining, elected-officials, state-workers, anti-democratic

My Lent: Ashes, Addiction and the Reality of Hell (Pace Rob Bell)

Seeded on Tue Mar 8, 2011 2:17 PM EST (Religion Dispatches)

Death is at your doorstep, and it will steal your innocence. But it cannot steal your substance. —"Timshel," Mumford and Sons We are treated as imposters, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see—we are alive. —2 Corinthians 6:8

death, religion, addiction, christianity, lent, mortality, repentance

After Westboro: The Trouble With "Tolerance"

Seeded on Tue Mar 8, 2011 2:01 PM EST (Religion Dispatches)

If our goal is to practice tolerance, then we have given up on a quest for a more radical acceptance and embrace of difference.

religion, culture, freedom-of-speech, theology, tolerance, westboro-baptist-church, difference

Budget Cuts and the Impact on the US Department of Peace

Seeded on Fri Mar 4, 2011 12:42 PM EST (The Christian Century)

In mid-February, forty Democrats joined the Republican majority in the House to cut off all funding for the USIP--a potentially devastating blow to the bipartisan institute that was started under President Reagan and funded mostly by Congress.

budget, peace, war, state-department, us-news, department-of-defense, us-department-of-peace

Budgets Are Still Moral Documents

Seeded on Tue Mar 1, 2011 12:00 AM EST (The Huffington Post)

You'll be hearing in coming days, if you haven't already, about the What Would Jesus Cut? campaign, launched by Jim Wallis and the good people of Sojourners. It assumes that massive budget cuts are coming, but raises the question of where we start.

congress, budget, deficit, government, us-news, morality, sojourners

Labor ruling has religious colleges shaking | The Christian Century

Seeded on Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:39 PM EST (The Christian Century)

According to Elbert Tellem, the National Labor Relations Board's acting regional director, Manhattan College can't prohibit adjunct faculty from unionizing because the school's core purpose isn't religious enough to trigger a labor law exemption.

labor, education, unions, labor-law, manhattan-college, christian-schools, adjunct-faculty, religioncatholic-colleges, university-school, manhattan-colleges

Prescription: Reform, the Affordable Health-care Act is already saving lives

Seeded on Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:56 PM EST (Sojourners)

As new members of Congress got adjusted to their seats this winter, some made it a high priority to try to repeal the health-care reform legislation that became law in March 2010.

us-news, washington-dc, health-care-reform, medicare-part-d, obamacare, affordable-care-act

A Step Toward Justice: Reparations for past federal mistreatment of American Indians and African-American farmers move forward.

Seeded on Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:51 PM EST (Sojourners)

People's connection to land is strongly tied up with faith, identity, social relationships, and ultimately justice.

reparations, agriculture, barack-obama, us-news, first-nations, washington-dc, african-american, first-nation, blackfeet-nation, claims-resolution-act

Meet the Frackers: A Technique for Natural Gas Drilling That Threatens Drinking Water and the Environment

Seeded on Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:45 PM EST (Sojourners)

Times are tough; one day, a company approaches you about leasing a piece of your land, far from your house, for natural gas drilling. The company offers you fair compensation, royalties for any gas recovered, and many assurances that the impact on your land will be minimal.

natural-gas, us-news, marcellus-shale, fracking, safe-drinking-water-acts

Does Psychology tilt Liberal?

Seeded on Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:26 PM EST (Religion Dispatches)

Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia, is making quite a splash. In January he set off a media storm by chastising his fellow psychologists for liberal bias.

science, culture, psychology, conservatism, academia

Hookers for Jesus: Sex and Salvation on the Strip

Seeded on Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:56 PM EST (Religion Dispatches)

Annie Lobért knows that sex sells. The 16 years she spent as a stripper, prostitute, and high-class escort, most recently on the Las Vegas Strip, taught her that.

religion, sex, culture, prostitution, christianity, pornography, womens-rights, exploitation-of-women

A Woman's Worth

Seeded on Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:36 PM EST (Sojourners)

A recent study on "women of color, wealth, and America's future" found that while the median net worth (assets minus debts) of single white women is $41,500, the median net worth of single African-American women is only $100.

race, poverty, social-security, united-states, gender, us-news, equality, african-americans, needy-families, temporary-assistance

Securing Women's Rights: When the Taliban Ruled, they prevented girls from going to school. Who's stopping them now?

Seeded on Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:27 PM EST (Sojourners)

"Your [U.S.] leaders say they are here to secure Afghanistan, especially for the women," Zohra explains. "The reporters happily wrote stories about how the Taliban did not let women to go to school. And this is true; many of our women cannot even read.

afghanistan, war, united-states, world-news, womens-rights

Afghanistan: The Human Toll

Seeded on Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:00 PM EST (Sojourners)

With U.S. public opposition to the war at an all-time high of 63 percent, the Obama administration is desperately trying to put forward what it claims are hopeful signs in the ongoing carnage that has been perpetuated there.

human-rights, afghanistan, politics, war, obama, peacemaking, demilatarization

10 Things this Liberal, Social Justice Christian, Progressive Democrat has in Common with Conservative, Evangelical Christian, Tea Party Republicans

Seeded on Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:41 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

I reject this adversarial mentality because at the core of our discourse should not be an obsession with winning the future, but our common yearning to discover where God is leading us.

religion, culture, christianity, discourse, american-civility

Presbyterian Church (USA) edges closer to approving ordination of openly gay and lesbian Elders, Deacons and Ministers

Seeded on Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:44 PM EST (toledoblade.com)

The Maumee Valley Presbytery, (the regional body of the Presbyterian Church (USA) covering Northwest Ohio and parts of Southeast Michigan)voted 67-39 Tuesday in favor of ordaining openly gay or lesbian pastors, but the proposed amendment must be approved by a majority of the nati …

religion, culture, presbyterian-church, maumee-valley-presbytery, gay-ordination

Ohio Abortion Ban Would Use Heartbeat as Barometer

Seeded on Tue Feb 8, 2011 5:13 PM EST (Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life)

COLUMBUS, Ohio— Ohio will be the testing ground for a new approach to limiting abortions that would prohibit women from ending pregnancies at the first detectable fetal heartbeat, sometimes as early as 18 days after conception.

ohio, abortion, law, us-news

Proposed Utah Bill Could Protect Many Religious Activities

Seeded on Tue Feb 8, 2011 5:11 PM EST (Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life)

SALT LAKE CITY-- A legislative proposal protecting Utahns from prosecution because of their religious beliefs is so broad some say it might legalize everything from polygamy to smoking peyote.

law, polygamy, peyote, us-news, utah, church-and-state

Ohio's Catholic Bishops Urge End to the Death Penalty

Seeded on Tue Feb 8, 2011 5:04 PM EST (The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (RNS) The Catholic bishops of Ohio are calling on Gov. John Kasich and state lawmakers to abolish the state's death penalty.

ohio, death-penalty, catholic, us-news, criminal-justice

An Unlikely Escape at an End of the Line Prison

Seeded on Tue Feb 8, 2011 2:57 PM EST (NPR)

Behind a double electric fence and layers of locked doorways, Alabama's most violent and mentally unstable prisoners are incarcerated in the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility outside Birmingham. Many of them are here to stay.

religion, culture, buddhism, rehabilitation, criminal-justice

How Rumsfeld Abondoned the Peacemakers

Seeded on Mon Feb 7, 2011 5:16 PM EST (Newsweek)

The former defense secretary launched a campaign to win hearts and minds, but he never believed in it. Caught in the crossfire between the early high-flown rhetoric and the cold reality were the men and women of Civil Affairs.

iraq, afghanistan, war, united-states, army-reserve, us-news, donald-rumsfeld, army-civil-affairs

What the Bible Really Says About Sex

Seeded on Mon Feb 7, 2011 5:04 PM EST (Newsweek)

These battles over the "right" interpretation are, of course, as old as the Bible itself. In today's culture wars, the Bible—specifically a "one man, one woman" argument from the Book of Genesis—is employed by the Christian right to oppose gay marriage.

religion, culture, christianity, sexuality, the-bible

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