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A report from India in the wake of new protests. “The emotions are much stronger—the sense of concern, the sense of anxiety, the urgency,” an activist says. “You have your fellow beings torturing themselves… So when this is happening in Tibet, of course people here feel very intense and strongly. But what we can do is very limited.”

American Christians assume that what prophecy does is predict specific events to happen. And of course that’s the way the Book of Revelation has been read. They read it, as you say, as predicting this means this, or the beast is this. But prophesy, as we know, is a highly interpretative art, and the way this book lives and has lived for two thousand years is by interpretation and reinterpretation.

Wait, I thought Republicans liked politicians to read the Bible!

Even the campaign for the bill has had deadly consequences.

Depends on your definition of “said.”

Remembering the leader of the “Velvet Revolution” through his writings.

“Prop 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California…”

The latest bloggingheads.

Maine’s investigation into campaign finance reveals so much more…

Human rights, the role of the Church, and politics aren’t the whole story.