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Is God Angry At You? A Good Friday Reflection

David Lose | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Crucifixion of Jesus, Cross, Penal-Substitution, Tim Challies, Atonement, Mark Driscoll, John Piper, Anselm, Holy Week, Lent, Religion News

This argument assumes God can't transcend our own moral limitations. Just because we may cry for justice and vengeance when we are wronged doesn't mean God will.

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Jesus' Death As Sacrifice?

Greg Carey | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Theology, Atonement, Greg Carey, Jesus Christ, Crucifixion, Jesus, Christianity, Religion News

There's a problem with penal substitution. Biblical sacrifices do not represent human attempts to purchase forgiveness; instead, they offer a ritual means of acknowledging the costliness of sin and alienation from God.

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Asking Forgiveness: A Difficult Conversation

Rabbi Laura Geller | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Teshuva, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Atonement, David Blumenthal, Forgiveness, Judaism, Yom Kippur Reflection, Rosh Hashanah Reflection, Bedtime Shema, Repentance, Asking Forgiveness, High Holidays Reflection, Jewish Repentance, Religion News

Our tradition tells us: "For transgressions between one person and another, Yom Kippur does not serve as atonement, until the one offended has been appeased."

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Real Teshuvah

Gabe Crane | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Yom Kippur, Judaism, Teshuvah, Rosh Hashanah, Teshuva, Renewal Judaism, Atonement, Halakha, Repentance, High Holidays, Aviva Zornberg, Shofar, Postmodernism, What Is Teshuvah, Jewish Renewal, High Holidays Reflection, Religion News

The blast of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah calls out to all of us: "Wake up! You have been sleeping!" The slumber is clear. The choice is ours. But to what is it that we awaken?

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In The Shadows Of The Sacred: Indecent Exposure For Our Children

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Hope and Change, Rosh Hashana, Economic Crisis, Atonement, God, Rosh Hashanah Reflection, Haves and Have Nots, High Holidays Reflection, Jewish High Holidays, High Holidays, Judaism, Religion News

Even before the most recent economic crisis, we have allowed our children to see the devastation of our earth, of our country, of our Native Americans, of our poor people and of our sick people.

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Mohler To Weiner: Atone Through Jesus

Rev. Chuck Currie | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Anthony Weiner, Jesus, Atonement, Jesus Christ, Albert Mohler, Likud Party, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, United Church of Christ, Southern Baptist, Mohler and Weiner, Judaism and Christianity, Religion News

This isn't the first time that Mohler has spoken strongly of his belief that Jews need Christ to be saved. He once compared Judaism to a tumor that needed to be removed.

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Timeless Taboos: Why 19th-Century Novels Appeal To Film-Makers

The Guardian | Mark Lawson | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: 19th Century Novels, Book Adaptation, Keira Knightley, Movie Adaptation, Pride and Prejudice Movie, Atonement, Wuthering Heights Movie, Anna Karenina Movie, Great Expectations Movie, Books News

At press previews, to which movie critics are lured on weekday mornings by platters of complimentary croissants and fruit segments, a special mood of ...

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Best Film Adaptations Of Books

The Daily Beast | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Lionel Shriver, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The English Patient, Legends of the Fall, Best Film Adaptations, Atonement, Mrs. Bridge, Book Adaptations, Mr. Bridge, Film Adaptations, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Books News

One of the hot properties at Cannes was the film version of Lionel Shriver's bestselling We Need to Talk About Kevin, but it's the rare book that make...

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Required Reading: Devastatingly Sad Books

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.12.2011

We’re the first to admit that, sometimes, the best cure for a hard week, a long day or just a rainy weekend is a really sad book....

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'Beyond Forgiveness': Atoning For The Past To Repair The World

Michael N. Nagler | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Reflections on Atonement, War Is a Lie, Beyond Forgiveness, Uss Vicennes, Atonement, Soldier's Heart, Unforgivable Sin, Michael Nagler, Collective Guilt, Religion News

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu famously said, there is no future without forgiveness; we might add there is no livable present without the possibility of repairing the past.

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WATCH: Keira Knightley Becomes A 'Chanel Superwoman' In A Sexy Catsuit

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CoCo Chanel, Keira Knightley Coco Mademoiselle, Keira Knightley, Baz Luhrmann, Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge, Audrey Tautou, Pride and Prejudice, Joe Wright, Chanel Superwoman, Atonement, Keira Knightley Chanel, Video, Entertainment News

The new preview for Keira Knightley's upcoming Chanel ad gives a nice behind-the-scenes look at the Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) direct...

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Lent: Hungering For Spirit

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Starvation, Hunger, Purification, Religious Fasting, Spiritual Practice, Endurance, Fasting, Lent, Penitence, Lent Fasting, Abstinence, Spirituality, Atonement, Fasting Lent, Healthy Living News

Over time and through tribulation, people have learned to eat their hunger -- to exploit a period of foodlessness for the invaluable experience it can offer.

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Seeking The Other Jesus

Greg Garrett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christianity, Evangelicals, God, Christian Theology, Atonement, Golden Rule, American Christianity, Love, Compassion, Religion News

Instead of piety, salvation, and politicized morality, many of us have embraced love and radical hospitality, and the two-fold commandment (love of God and love of neighbor) articulated by Jesus.

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Into The Looming Dark Of Lent

Scott Cairns | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Easter, Great Lent, Easter 2011, Jesus, Christianity, Christians, Atonement, Lent, Christian Calendar, When Is Easter 2011, Lent 2011, Religion News

The Greeks have a word for the strange mixture of dispositions that characterizes the spirit of Great Lent; the notion is spoken of as "bright sadness" or "sorrowful joy."

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Novelist Ian McEwan Criticizes Israel During Acceptance Of Israeli Literary Prize

AP | DANIEL ESTRIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Atonement, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Prize, Literary Prizes, Israeli Literary Prize, Ian McEwan, Ian Mcewan Criticizes, Books News

JERUSALEM — Renowned British novelist Ian McEwan accepted an Israeli literary prize in Jerusalem Sunday with harsh criticism of Jewish settlemen...

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Your Favorite Star-Crossed Lovers In Literature: Expect The Unexpected, Not Romeo And Juliet (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Star-Crossed Lovers, Star Crossed Lovers, Literature, Slidepollajax, Oedipus, Bert and Ernie, The Time Traveler's Wife, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ernest Hemingway, Atonement, The Sun Also Rises, Edith Wharton, Books News

Though Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are the classic star-crossed lovers in books, and the play from which the phrase originates, we decided to add s...

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Dirty Girl

Hellin Kay | Posted 05.25.2011

No doubt there will be minor comparisons made to the sweet and funny Easy A which just came out but this is a whole different teenage angst animal with even more subtext and soul.

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Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's 'Solar'

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Newspaper Reviewing, Solar, Postmodern Fiction, Fiction, British Fiction, Literary Criticism, Morality, Ron Charles, Book Reviewing, Atonement, Global Warming, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, Books News

What American reviewers have missed is that satire and history are coming together for the first time in McEwan's career.

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A Time of Forgiveness

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Forgiveness, Compassion, Yom Kippur, The Giving Life, Yom Kippur Atonement, Forgive, Atonement, Kshamavani, Healthy Living News

Each year during this time, many cultures around the world celebrate an occasion of forgiveness.

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Keeping Our Brothers, Keeping Ourselves: The Importance Of Personal And Communal Repentance

Ari Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Teshuvah, Judaism, Atonement, Teshuva, Judaism Atonement, Judaism Teshuva, Religion News

We may not fix all the wrongs done by our fellow Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, or Hindus, but we have the power, and the responsibility, to be constantly improving ourselves and our communities.

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Yom Kippur, 2010 -- I Plead Guilty

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yom Kippur, Haaretz, Gaza, Fasting, Israel, Palestine, Atonement, World, Judaism, Yom Kippur 2010, Religion News

May our children see each other for what they are, sisters and brothers. And after all that they've gone through, for their sake if not for ours, inscribe them for a year of peace.

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Huffington Post Readers' Picks

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Jews, Jew, Sholem Aleichem, Readers' Picks, Tevye, Judaism, Jewish, Jewish Books, Henry Roth, Saul Bellow, Herzog, Atonement, Yom, Yom Kippur, Jewish Atonement, The Chosen, Chaim Potok, Literary Prizes, Books News

Last week, to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, we published "8 Favorite Fictional Jewish Characters In Books". Readers responded in drove...

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Should A Book Pass The "Dead Tree" Test?

Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Free Books, Godin, Book Publishing, Ian McEwan, Physics, The Edge, Chris Anderson, Atonement, Free eBooks, Free-Ebooks, Human Genome, What Matters, Books News

Do you feel strongly enough about the impact of what you have to say that you can live with cutting down trees to make your book?

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Americans Need National Repentance and Atonement

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yom Kippur Atonement, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Atonement, Repentance, Rosh Hashanah 2010, Religion News

America needs a period of atonement before rushing into the same mistakes we've been making globally and domestically. The Jewish tradition is useful in that it not only focuses on individual lives, but on collective responsibility.

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Ian McEwan: Americans Are 'Profoundly Bored' By Climate Change

Telegraph | Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Reviews, Nobel Prize, Ian McEwan, Atonement, Global Warming, Climate Change, Ian Mcewan Solar, Books News

McEwan blamed American apathy for the negative reviews afforded to Solar, his satire about global warming. The New York Times critic dismissed Solar ...

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