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African-American people were taught Christianity in the context of oppression. When people are disempowered, they are often empowered at someone else’s expense, whether it’s women or children or gay people. How do we get through that?

Humanity may be a mystery, but what about the human who virtually enters a spec of dust and is able to learn the mysteries of dustness? Doesn’t this kind of leap require us to adopt a kind of awe and reverence for the mysteries outside the human as well?

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At the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, Obama spoke eloquently of the shared losses of India and America. But that eloquence was sadly absent as Obama struggled to respond clearly to the students at St. Xavier’s College who asked him pointblank for his views on jihad and for his reasons for not calling Pakistan a terrorist nation.

Two very different films about what happens after we die are in the theaters right now: Clint Eastwood’s gentle Hereafter and Gaspar Noe’s raw, hallucinatory Enter the Void. While covering the same cosmological territory, the films couldn’t be more different, stylistically, thematically, and religiously.

Up to new board to review educational materials for new curriculum.

Smart’s testimony sets a powerful example that LDS women who survive sexual violence have no reason to be ashamed of themselves.

“The earth will end only when God says time to be over”

What message do we send when we don’t prosecute torture?