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Forgiveness: You Can't Have It Both Ways

Maria Mayo | Posted 05.22.2012

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Conflating biblical understandings of forgiveness with individual, therapeutic notions distorts the biblical text and creates pressure on individual victims.

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Upending Political Vitriol

Robert V. Taylor | Posted 04.23.2012

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Our culture and political process is adept at demonizing opposing points of view and candidates. What if, instead of accepting this as the norm, we embrace a proactive response that insists on a new discourse?

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Robyn's HUGE One Day Project

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Desmond Tutu, Photo a Day, Video, Richard Branson, Global Photo Project, Day in the Life of Earth, Robyn, Robyn Songs, Mary Robinson, Robyn Photos, Entertainment News

LONDON — Robyn is turning photographer, for a day. The Swedish pop singer is joining an anti-apartheid icon, a former Irish president and thous...

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Made For Goodness

Desmond Tutu | Posted 03.13.2012

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Our own stories, experiences and gifts are the incubators of good news. When we allow our imagination to be engaged with the needs of the world around us, we actively participate in expanding love and compassion. When we do so, God is tickled pink!

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Truth or Dare: Would Black America Support President Obama If He Were Atheist?

Kirsten West Savali | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Christianity, Election 2012, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Atheism, Desmond Tutu, The Black Church, President Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Black Voices News

Truth or dare, evangelical, African-American Obama supporters: How deeply does your faith inform your politics? More importantly, would you support President Barack Obama if he were atheist?

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Global Leaders Call On Canada To Fight Climate Change In New Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- African leaders including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jay Naidoo of former President Nelson Mandela's cabinet, and Zwelinzima Vavi, general...

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Thanks(giving) Be to God

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Generosity, Thanksgiving Gratitude, Hope, Grateful, Billy Graham, Thanksgiving, Zuccotti Park, Pete Seeger, Desmond Tutu, God, Family, Joy, Religion News

There is so much to be grateful for -- the grand and the mundane, the intimate and the global, the sacred and the supposedly secular. Blessings surround us on all sides. We just need to open our eyes and see them, name them, and say thank you.

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13-Year-Old Pakistani Girl Nominated For International Peace Award

The Times of India | Posted 11.21.2011

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A brave girl from Pakistan, who as an 11-year-old wrote about the Taliban banning girls' schools in the picturesque Swat Valley and missing watching h...

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Catching Up With Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Posted 01.04.2012

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By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, fresh off his 80th birthday celebrations, is the subject ...

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The Children Of God Storybook Bible

Posted 01.02.2012

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, author of "Children Of God Storybook Bible: Deluxe Edition," was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his lifelong strug...

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Achieving Global Gender Equality: Men in Support of Women

Peter Buffett | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Female Empowerment, Clinton Global Initiative, Girls Not Brides, Martin Luther King Jr, Masculinity, A Call to Men, Gender, Ted Bunch, Desmond Tutu, Girls and Women, NoVo Foundation, Impact News

Men must be called upon not to act "on behalf of" women, but to support women to have more power to act on behalf of themselves.

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WATCH: Desmond Tutu Celebrates 80th Birthday

BBC, AP | Danielle Cadet | Posted 12.06.2011

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South Africa's "moral conscience," Archbishop Desmond Tutu, celebrated his 80th birthday Friday, BBC reports. The octogenarian, who helped end the...

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PHOTOS: Celebrating the Life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Posted 12.07.2011

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In honor of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday, HuffPost Religion is honored to publish a collection of photos from his life and work found in th...

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Desmond Tutu Calls Government 'Worse Than Apartheid' After Dalai Lama Visa Woes

The Huffington Post | Ileana Llorens | Posted 12.05.2011

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Desmond Tutu blasted the South African government Tuesday after officials delayed the Dalai Lama's visa request to attend friend Tutu's 80th birthday ...

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Teens Everywhere Can Take Action

Sofia Stafford | Posted 12.03.2011

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We each have a small section on a large canvas to paint, and, as teens and as human beings, it is hard for us to see more than our little square of the canvas. My experience at CGI showed me the WHOLE canvas.

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South Africa May Block Dalai Lama Visit To Tutu

AP | By MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 11.26.2011

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By MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa officials may block the Dalai Lama from celebrating the 80th birthday of his friend...

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Girls Just Want to be Girls

Monika Mitchell | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Empowering Women, Gender Equality, Desmond Tutu, Jennifer Buffett, Clinton Global Initiative, Child Brides, Child Marriage, Mary Robinson, Impact News

The issue of child marriage and the work of "Girls Not Brides" -- announced yesterday at the Clinton Global Initiative -- highlight the challenges ahead for gender advancement.

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Duro Olowu, UK Designer, Gives Style A Memorable Punch Of Color

Posted 11.19.2011

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Even though New York Fashion Week is over, we are still dying for the bold, brilliant beauty of U.K. designer Duro Olowu's Spring 2012 line. It's just...

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Troy Davis Should Not Be Put to Death

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Death Penalty, Cameron Todd Willingham, Desmond Tutu, Rick Perry, Pope Benedict XVI, Troy Davis, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Crime News

"Troy Davis has three major strikes against him. First, he is an African-American man. Second, he was charged with killing a white police officer. And...

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Nobel Peace Laureates Urge Obama to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline

Jody Williams | Posted 11.07.2011

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What those "ordinary citizens" protesting the unnecessary Keystone XL pipeline did in Washington is what I wish we all were willing to do more often: Remind our government that it is in the service of the people -- and not big business.

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How to Save a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 10.08.2011

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By scrapping plans for nuclear weapons "modernization" and for national missile defense, programs that are both useless and provocative, the United States would save $271 billion.

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Desmond Tutu: Young South Africans Don't Know What Mandela Did for Us

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 09.17.2011

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Today, Nelson Mandela turns 93. I spoke with Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town, who like Mandela won a Nobel Prize for his role in bringing an end to apartheid.

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All Are God's Children

Desmond Tutu | Posted 08.11.2011

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All over the world, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are persecuted. We treat them as pariahs and make them doubt that they too are children of God -- this must be nearly the ultimate blasphemy.

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God Is Not A Christian

Desmond Tutu | Posted 08.01.2011

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Many of us perhaps need to have our notion of God deepened and expanded. We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

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On Our Radar: Best Books Just Out Or Coming Soon We Thought You Should Know About

Posted 07.26.2011

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Here's what's on our radar this week--everything from great summer reads to important human rights issues that we thought you'd want to know about. It...

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