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Accessorizing Hate

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Bias, Jesus, Non-Profits, Gays and Lesbians, United States, Love, Bigotry, Minorities, Civil Rights Movement, Hate Crimes, Intolerance, Southern Baptists, Kindness, Non-Profit-Tax-Status, Religious Tolerance, Civil Rights, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Christianity and Homosexuality, Murder, Politics, God, Hate Speech, Politics News

When we choose silence in the face of bigotry, we threaten the lifeblood of our Union. We've all experienced more than a few bigots in our lives. Th...

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Holy Land Villages Revive Language Of Jesus

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 05.28.2012

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JISH, Israel -- Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus...

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Geologists Confirm Possible Jesus Crucifixion Date

The Huffington Post | Samreen Hooda | Posted 05.31.2012

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A new study suggests that the Biblical date of Jesus' crucifixion is, in fact, possible to confirm. The International Geology Review investigated a...

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What If Jesus Was An Immigrant ... Actually, He Was

Jose Antonio Tijerino | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Immigration, Immigrant, Jesus, Latino Voices News

Yes, this is yet another article about immigration. However, this isn't about immigration policy. Or the economic benefits of immigration. This is simply a moral argument for Christian believers. Immigrants are here for the same reasons Jesus of Nazareth and His family went to Egypt.

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The Early Mapplethorpe?

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Decadence, Homosexual, Cindy Sherman, Surrealism, Slideexpand, Gender, Symbolist, Andres Serrano, Homoerotic, F. Holland Day, Video, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jesus, Alfred Stieglitz, Arts News

Today many, if not most, artist-photographers incorporate issues of theater, sexuality and the constructed self into their work. From Cindy Sherman's ...

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Bono, Occupy And The Challenge Of Following The Jesus Of The Oppressed

Jason Wojciechowski | Posted 05.24.2012

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We should commend his service and giving for social good just as we might the activist, but none of this should shadow the reality that poverty and injustice exist because of an unjust system that favors victors with spoils and curses the less fortunate with misery.

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Archeologists Discover Physical Evidence Of Ancient Biblical City

Reuters | Posted 05.23.2012

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JERUSALEM, May 23 (Reuters) - Israeli archaeologists said on Wednesday they had discovered the first physical evidence supporting Old Testament acco...

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The Vatican Lays A Cunning Trap For American Nuns

Mary C. Johnson | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, Catholicism, Gender and Religion, Jesus, Joan of Arc, Catholic Nuns, Vatican, American Nuns, Religion News

At the end of this month, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will meet to formulate a response to a Vatican trap whose cunning is best appreciated within the long tradition of religious authorities who craft impossible dilemmas for those they perceive as threats.

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Thou Shalt Not Live By Street Food Alone

Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 05.21.2012

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Just like Jesus, you and I know what it's like to be tempted. We know what it's like to have a hunger for something we want, something that others might say we need, but that we know will serve only to distract or derail us.

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A Christian Pastor's Thoughts On Same-Sex Marriage

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 05.21.2012

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Jesus was more interested in love than he was in rules. That was what got him into so much trouble with the fundamentalists of his day

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S**t People Say to Jews

Lev Raphael | Posted 05.14.2012

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Wait, you guys have Sunday on Saturday? Isn't that confusing? He's your type, he looks Jewish. So he tried to Jew me down. Oops. No offense. Is ...

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The Great Populist Wave

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.10.2012

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At this moment, in our land, it is time for the true champions of the 99 percent to launch the largest voter registration, mobilization and turnout campaign in the history of freedom.

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The Difference Between Prophet And Madman

Nathan Greenberg | Posted 05.07.2012

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As the world watches a man attempt to sacrifice his son in response to quiet voice in his head, it should give us pause for other such moments in history carried out by men we now deem holy.

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Why Rules Create Toxic Religion

Craig Groeschel | Posted 05.08.2012

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Thankfully, Jesus didn't come to make us religious. He brought us the good news of his eternal life, a relationship with the living God.

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Hooray For Heretics

Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, Bad Religion, Hinduism, Religion, Heresy, Ross Douthat, Heretics, Jesus, Buddhism, Spirituality, Interfaith, Religion News

Conservatives like Douthat, who pine for a mythical version of a church-centered postwar world, might lament that, but I say thank God for heretics. They broaden our minds and deepen our spirits.

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Richard Grenell, Romney and the (Religious) Politics of Hate

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.03.2012

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If you came to earth from another planet right now as the proverbial "visitor from Mars" and tried to figure out what most religions all seem agree on and care about most you'd conclude that it was about keeping women down and bashing gays. Call this the "ecumenism of oppression."

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Time The Church's Old Story Of Jesus Dies

Steve McSwain | Posted 05.03.2012

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The story of Jesus is vastly more beautiful without the baggage of killing and bloodshed. It is time for a new reading of the redemption story. It is time the church allow the old story of Jesus to die.

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Paraguay Embraces Easter With Processions And Pomp

Sam Wolson | Posted 05.01.2012

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Mostly active in rural Paraguay, this short, hairy and incredibly ugly imp is said to create all kinds of mischief, including stealing eggs, scaring cattle and impregnating women by running between their legs.

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Why Stay In The Church?

Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 04.29.2012

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The church can be a tough place. We hear things that we don't like; we see things that we don't approve of; we are forced to pray with people with whom we don't agree.

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Walking The (Catholic) Plank

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 04.27.2012

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Why doesn't my Catholic Church get its own house in order first? Get the plank/log/boulder/semi truck/elephant out of its own eye before it tries to remove a speck from another's eye?

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Jesus And The Torah

Greg Carey | Posted 04.26.2012

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Did not Jesus occasionally but intentionally violate the Torah? In a word, no.

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The Prize of Peace

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 04.26.2012

The greatest threat to evil is peace.

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Enough With Co-opting Jesus For Every Political Agenda

Brandon G. Withrow | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, Jon Mcnaughton Painting, Occupy Wall Street, Teachings of Jesus, Jesus, Stanford University, Tea Party, Paul Ryan Budget, Religion and Politics, Religion News

Much like the many portraits of Jesus over the centuries, we should never underestimate the ability of human beings to rewrite Jesus' words into their own ideologies.

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Gay Jesus: From His Lips To God's Ears

Kergan Edwards-Stout | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Religion, Lesbian, Actor, Jesus, Documentary, Theater, Gay, Film, Tolerance, Faith, Spirituality, James Brandon, Religion and Sexuality, Religion News

The Catholic faith is important to my family, and as much as I wanted to make them happy, I learned pretty quickly that I first needed to make myself happy.

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Don't Fear This Book: Crossan On Parables And Gospels

Greg Carey | Posted 04.16.2012

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Is Jesus inconsistent, or does Matthew have an agenda? Crossan, like most interpreters, says that Matthew 23 reflects not Jesus' own teaching but a conflict that emerged decades after Jesus' career.

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