Messiah

Enter The Gate: Celebrating The Declaration Of The Bab

Shastri Purushotma | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Baha'i Faith, Baha'i, Shiraz, Persia, Declaration of the Bab, Baha'u'llah, Messiah, Religion News
Shastri Purushotma

On the night of May 22 this year, Baha'is around the world will hold celebrations to mark the 168th anniversary of that first evening in Shiraz when their Faith began.

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If You Could See Israel Naked

Bradley Burston | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Religion, Jerusalem, Israeli Settlements, Haaretz, Segregation, Judaism, Bradley Burston, Beit Shemesh, Israel, Palestinians, Religion and Politics, Discrimination Against Women, Messiah, World News
Bradley Burston

If we could see the Jewish world naked, we might well see a new Judaism emerging this new year, stripped of xenophobia and 19th century clothes for 21st century issues. In the long run, it could save the Jewish people from extinction. If we're lucky, it could save Israel as well.

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Lowering Holiday Stress With The Help Of Handel's Messiah

Danielle Tumminio | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Holidays, Handel, Messiah, Handel's Messiah, Hallelujah Chorus, Pitch, Christmas, Sacred Sounds, Religion News
Danielle Tumminio

There's no doubt the pitch around the holidays is elevated. But perhaps, when we make conscious efforts to lower the pitch, the music we make in our lives will be that much more beautiful.

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You Can't Handel the Truth: A Holiday Tradition

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Christmas Music, Handel, Messiah, Hallelujah, Entertainment News
Robert J. Elisberg

A few years back, I wrote about new discoveries surrounding the holiday classic, Handel's "Messiah." Several months later, I followed it up with add...

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Advent: What's In The Box?

Christian Piatt | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: John Mayer, Soundgarden, Advent, Jesus, Christmas, Chris Cornell, Christianity, Waiting, Body of Christ, Christ, Messiah, A Christmas Story, Expectation, Religion News
Christian Piatt

Never mind it's based entirely on fantasy. But the pleasure of anticipation must outweigh the disappointment of reality, or else we wouldn't keep doing it, right?

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Messiah College Alumni Support LGBT Students

Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Gay Rights, Gays, Messiah College, Messiah, Messiah College Alumni, Gay Students, Religion News

By Ivey Dejesus Religion News Service GRANTHAM, Pa. (RNS) Alumni at evangelical Messiah College have launched an online petition urging the conser...

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Where Is Jesus? The Case Of The Missing Messiah

Qasim Rashid | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Camping, Islam, Messiah, Jesus, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, May 21, Apocalypse, Muslim Messiah, Second Coming, End of the World, Religion News
Qasim Rashid

What if the Messiah came to unite all religions under one flag of peace with love -- not forced conversion? What if he came to revive faith through rational discourse -- not violence?

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The End Time In Judaism

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Judaism, Maimonides, Messiah, May 21 2011, Judaism May 21, Jewish Apocalypse, Judgement Day, Judaism End Times, Judaism Apocalypse, Religion News
Rabbi David Wolpe

People will settle quarrels without malice or injury. All will seek and achieve a knowledge of their Creator as far as possible by human understanding.

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Demystifying The Second Coming

Harris Zafar | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Islam, Prophet Muhammad, Moderate Muslims, Quran, Second Coming, Muslim, Messiah, Osama Bin Laden, Reformist Muslims, Islamic Messiah, Jesus and Islam, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Religion News
Harris Zafar

It is evident that Muslims need a spiritual leader who can unite them all under a single banner of peace and instill in them the correct interpretation of Islam.

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A Funeral for the State of Israel

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Tel Aviv, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Haaretz, Messiah, Gaza, Jerusalem, Itamar, Politics, Bradley Burston, Israel, Palestinians, Judaism, World News
Bradley Burston

We are not the same people that we were before these murders. On both sides, the killing of children leaves terrible scars.

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Twelve Months Til Christmas

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lee Remick, I Do! I Do!, Oy Vey in a Manger, Handel, Daniel Massey, Jon Cryer, Carol Lawrence, Kelsey Venter, Nutcracker, Black Nativity, In the Good Old Summertime, Rock Hudson, Barbara Baxley, David Sedaris, Jerry Bock, Messiah, Nathaniel Frey, Hansel Und Gretel, Jason Zinoman, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Martin, Daddy Long Legs, The Fantasticks, QMR Records, Valerie Vigoda, Ryan Drummond, Gordon MacRae, Radio City Music Hall, Jack Cassidy, The Little Match Girl, Jean Webster, Wicked, Stephen Schwartz, Irving Berlin?S White Christmas, A Christmas Carol, Toy Story: The Musical, Paul Gordon, Rockettes, Barbara Cook, Robert Adelman Hancock, Jan De Hartog, Gower Champion, Hal Linden, 110 in the Shade, Karen Ziemba, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Christmas Revels, My Cup Runneth Over, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Carol Burnett, David Garrison, Robert Preston, The Shop Around the Corner, The Santaland Diaries, Brendan Milburn, Striking 12, Harold Prince, Brittany Ogle, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, Sheldon Harnick, Ed Ames, Long Story Short, Macon Little Theatre, Center Rep, Megan McGinnis, Kinsey Sicks, Rubicon Theatre Company, John Caird, She Loves Me, You?Ve Got Mail, The Fourposter, Theatreworks, Electrofulguration, Humperdinck, Groovelily, Arts News
George Heymont

For most people, the holiday season is over and done with. Christmas decorations have been put back into storage and the tree has been disposed of. But for arts entrepreneurs the situation is quite different.

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Handel's Messiah Re-imagined by Mozart in L.A. Master Chorale Performance

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Handel, LA Culture, George Handel, Messiah, Arts News
Rodney Punt

2010-12-21-Picture4.jpgFor well over two centuries, a cottage industry in musicology has sought to identify all the variants of Handel's Messiah.

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Why the Reported Sale of the Moonies Washington Times for $1 Requires Greater Scrutiny!

Steven Hassan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Jonestown, Hyung-Jin Moon, Messiah, Brainwashing, Washington Times Shakeup, The Washington Times, Kook-Jin Moon, Hyun-Jin Moon, Cults, Unification Church International, Sun Myung Moon, Leo Ryan, Kcia, Media News
Steven Hassan

Over the years, Sun Myung Moon has built an enormous multinational business conglomerate, announced he was the Messiah, and crowned himself the "King of Peace" on Capitol Hill. All largely unnoticed by the American public.

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Romancing the Snake

Jeff Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nag Panchami, Gematria, Snakes, Nepal, Snake Lake, Kathmandu, Hinduism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, Messiah, Serpent, Jeff Greenwald, Vishnu, Travel News
Jeff Greenwald

When Nepalis make their offerings to the snake this Saturday to celebrate Nag Panchami, they'll be thinking less about molting than about primal power.

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The Jewish Channel: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Precluded Himself From Being the Messiah

Menachem Wecker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lubavitcher Rebbe, Life of Brian, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Messiah, Monty Python, Judaism, The Jewish Channel, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Religion News
Menachem Wecker

Does Jewish tradition allow for the possibility that the Messiah might never know he (or she?) was Messianic?

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I'm Down With Jesus -- It's Christ That Gives Me Problems

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Historical Jesus, Social Justice, Judaism, Reform Judaism, Jesus, Judaism and Christianity, Christianity, Christ, Messianism, Messiah, Religion News
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.

For the past several years I've made an avocational study of Jesus and his followers in their historical context, with particular attention to the question of what we can reasonably think Jesus said.

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Can Scholars Tell Us What Jesus Actually Said And Did?

The New Yorker | Adam Gopnik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Yorker, Jesus, Mark, Baptist, Temple, Gospel, Nazareth, Baptism, Messiah, Books News

When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he's a full-grown man. He comes down from...

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You Can't Handel the Truth: A Holiday Tradition

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert J. Elisberg

The libretto of Handel's "Messiah" is not of critical importance 250 years after the fact. And that might be the biggest joke on Charles Jennings, who saw the work as a way to confront what he believed was "a serious menace" in the world.

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Memo to Fareed Zakaria: It's Not Bibi Who's a Messianist but Ahamadinejad Who's Chasing Armageddon

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Bibi Netanyahu, Bible, Israel, Holocaust, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Hitler, Nuclear, Messiah, Amalek, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Remember that we Jews have learned the hard way that unthinkable evil can quickly become a reality; that those who call for Israel's destruction have to be taken seriously.

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Don't Expect a Miracle

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama G-20, Messiah, Economoc Recovery, Trauma, Economic Crisis, 9/11, Obama, Miracles, G-20, Politics News
Robert D. Stolorow

Obama can no more miraculously save us from the cumulative consequences of many years of economic foolishness than Bush's holy war against the "forces of evil" could resurrect our lost illusions of grandiose invincibility.

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