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Religion Dispatches
Our job is to keep separate the spiritual and temporal, church-state, metaphysical and physical where all the nuclear weapons are. We’re doing this in the technologically most lethal organization ever created by humankind—our U.S. military.
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Religion Dispatches
A tradition that values care for the poor gives the world Businessguys in Suits.
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Political Research Associates
Benjamin E. Zeller is an associate professor of religion at Lake Forest College. He is the author of Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion (New York University Press, 2014).
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Religion Dispatches
Still trying to close the supposed “God gap,” Dems still don’t get it.
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Religion Dispatches
All the invocations of God’s name and snippets of the Bible and Nuns On the Bus and what have you can’t really help the Democrats so long as the larger religiously-tinged framing about what’s good and what’s bad remain untouched.
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Religion Dispatches
A brief take on the platform God-bacle.
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Religion Dispatches
Intolerance is perhaps easier to attribute to those who claim an observance to biblical orthodoxy. From gay rights to science, proponents of biblical orthodoxy have assumed the role of self-appointed guardians of the truth. Such claims are the feeble attempt to provide answers to moral questions using a litany of biblical texts that support their presuppositions. But the unhealthy adherence to orthodoxy is not the exclusive property of those who embrace a conservative approach to scripture.
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Religion Dispatches
A few years ago during a college break, when my floor was deserted and peaceful, a middle-aged couple stopped by my office door looking for someone who taught religion. “We’re from the Unification Church,” the man said. I gasped. The Moonies! was my immediate, rather graceless thought. With great excitement, and flashbacks to news reports of mass weddings dancing through my head, I composed myself and invited them in to chat. They seemed pleasantly surprised that I knew what the Unification Church was and, perhaps most of all, that I hadn’t shut the door in their faces.
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Political Research Associates
Martyn Smith is associate professor of religious studies at Lawrence University. He teaches Islam as well as a course on Apple, Google, and Facebook. He was one of the leaders for a team that took…
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