More on ACNA school’s rejection of lesbians’ daughter
August 26, 2010
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“They don’t like that I have two mommies,” Olivia says.
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Wide spectrum of Americans support mosques in their neighborhoods
August 26, 2010
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New research from Public Religion Research Institute shows that a majority of Americans are opposed to allowing the proposed Islamic community center and mosque to be built two blocks away from ground zero. However, three-in-four (76%) Americans—including majorities of religious groups across the spectrum—say they would support the building of a mosque in their own local community.
Religious views influence doctor’s clinical decisions
August 26, 2010
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Doctors who described themselves as non-religious were more likely than others to report having given continuous deep sedation until death, having taken decisions they expected or partly intended to end life, and to have discussed these decisions with patients judged to have the capacity to participate in discussions.
David Brooks, public theologian
August 26, 2010
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Professional theologians have largely lost the ability to address wider audiences. Mimicking those in other academic and specialist sub-cultures, they have developed languages that aren’t accessible or even particularly interesting. Religious leaders have tended to mirror the polarization of the culture at-large, preferring to choose sides in the culture and political wars.
Ugandan bill back in the spotlight
#africanbishops
August 26, 2010
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As most clergy stood to clap at speeches critical of homosexuality, Archbishop Williams and two aides, who sat in the front row, were the only ones who remained seated.
Westerners are the WEIRD ones
August 26, 2010
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In many of these respects, Americans are the most “extreme” Westerners, especially young ones. And educated Americans are even more extremely WEIRD than uneducated ones. “The fact that WEIRD people are the outliers in so many key domains of the behavioral sciences may render them one of the worst subpopulations one could study for generalizing about Homo sapiens,” the authors conclude.
Let yourself alone
August 26, 2010
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I feel like writing you a rather bracing, disagreeable, east-windy sort of letter. When I read yours my first impulse was to send you a line begging you only to let yourself alone. Don’t keep on pulling yourself to pieces: and please burn that dreadful book with the list of your past sins!
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