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Religion Dispatches

Double Helix: Do You Fear What I Fear?

Was Obama’s speech just an exercise in kumbaya idealism?
Arri Eisen
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Religion Dispatches

Aghast Responses to Obama’s Speech Betray Cynicism, Revisionism

This tempest in a teacup reminds me of some Shari’a controversies in contemporary Islamic societies…
Svend White
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Religion Dispatches

The End of Jewish Education As We Know It?

In hard economic times choices must be made and Jewish philanthropies are letting go of cherished educational organizations. Reminds us of a classical ethical question about survival in the desert…
Benjamin Weiner
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Religion Dispatches

Driving While Pregnant

A traffic court in Dubai declares a woman guilty of manslaughter after a traffic accident in which she loses her child. Why not go ahead and ban pregnancy?
Shabana Mir
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Hazel Cherry

Political Research Associates
Hazel Cherry [ @laydeproclaimer] is an M.Div. Candidate at Howard University School of Divinity. She is a licensed minister in the Missionary Baptist denomination and plans to pursue a doctorate with…
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Religion Dispatches

Op-Ed: Rev. Wright and the Church-State Divide

Agonized analyses about the proper relation between church and state too often miss the point.
Ira Chernus
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Religion Dispatches

The Confessions of Haneke

Funny Games, abhorred by many critics, challenges the American belief in redemptive violence.
Gabriel Mckee
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Religion Dispatches

The Seven Deadly Sins, New and Improved

The Vatican’s latest edit engages the contemporary world in a collective reconsideration of systemic and personal sin, including the environment and genetic engineering.
Diane Winston
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Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

The strongest Tibetan response to China since 1959 and the media is only getting part of the story…
José Cabezón
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Religion Dispatches

The Specter on the Left

Arlen Specter is hardly the first Republican moderate to leave his party after the bullying conducted in the name of policy and GOP purity.
Louis A. Ruprecht
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