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Micky Ward: A Boxer's Comeback Based on Faith

Suzette Standring | Posted 09.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Micky Irish Ward, Micky Ward, Golden Rule, Addiction, Mark Wahlberg, Drugs, Lowell Boxer, God, Movies, Boxer, Dickie Eklund, Christian Bale, Bob Halloran, Arturo Gatti, The Fighter, Boxing, Paramount Movie, Faith, Lowell, Entertainment News
Suzette Standring

The power of prayer amazes famed boxer Micky Ward. Actor Mark Wahlberg portrays him in The Fighter, a Paramount movie being filmed in Lowell.

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The Episcopalian Gay Revolution

Wayne Besen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bishop William Love, Episcopalians, Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion, Episcopal Church Split, Southern California, Nigerian Archbishop Peter J. Akinola, God, Gay Rights, Dr. Rowan Williams, Christianity, Christians, Episcopal Church Gay Rights, Archbishop Peter Akinola, Politics News
Wayne Besen

Is there a significant market for an enlightened, modern Christianity that focuses on loving, rather than loathing one's neighbors?

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Powell, Empathy, Perspective, Quota System, Justice Lewis Powell, Affirmative Action, America, Conservative, Image of God, Brian McLaren, Story of Creation, Justice, Constitution, Affirmative Action Policies, Hispanic, God, Tower of Babel, Confirmation Hearing, David Brooks, Hispanic Woman, Diversity, Race, Racism, Jonathan Sacks, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Segregation, Regents of the University of California v Bakke, New York Times, Inequality, Creation, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Jim Wallis

In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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North Country Blues: Michael Jackson, Media, Community, and a Small Town Murder

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Murder, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Death, Pequot Lakes, Dru Sjodin, Garrison Keillor, Community, Memory, Georgianne Nienaber, Alfoso Rodriguez, Media, God, Sexoffender, Minnesota, Congo, Death, Living News
Georgianne Nienaber

It seemed as though Jackson chose his own path to death while there are so many others who are literally thrown into the Grim Reaper's grip like carrion to the wolves.

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How a Dog Taught me the Dharma

Jay Michaelson | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Anger, God, Ram Dass, Meditation, Kabbalah, Dharma, Buddhism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Living News
Jay Michaelson

Why was I angry at my fellow yogis for what their conditioning caused them to do? And, perhaps even more importantly, why be angry at myself for being frustrated?

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A Letter From the Cosmos Regarding the Death of Michael Jackson

Meg Favreau | Posted 07.30.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Michael Jackson, God, Michael Jackson Death, Michael Jackson Dead, Mj, Comedy News
Meg Favreau

Hello Americans! Spiritual center of the universe here. I'm just reaching out across countless galaxies, through burning stars and dark black holes, to tell you to STFU about Michael Jackson.

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Awakening to Evolution

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Spiritual Development, Enlightennext Magazine, Spiritual Awakening, God, Enlightenment, The Big Bang, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Living News
Andrew Z. Cohen

We are truly one with the mind of God--one with the original evolutionary impulse that chose to take that eternal leap from Being to Becoming fourteen billion years ago.

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A Call to Serve and Preserve Creation

Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, History, Leadership, Love Your Neighbor, Global, Slavery, International, Opportunity, Poll, Trade, Sacrifice, Green, Clean Energy, Congress, Emissions, Priorities, God, Poor, Consumption, Legislation, America, Church of England, Slave Trade, Climate Treaty, Christ, Climate Change, Land, Consumers, Polluting Industries, Security, Christian, Creation, Green News
Jim Wallis

Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.

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Fighting My Own Drug War: An Excerpt From What's Left of Us

Richard Farrell | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Excerpt, Entertainment, Memoirs, Author, Books, Drugs, War on Drugs, Heroin, Aa, Rehab, God, Richard Farrell, Memoir, Living, Narcotics, Cocaine, Living News
Richard Farrell

Heroin is not a cold-shake like cocaine. The impurities used to cut heroin need to be cooked off in boiling water before you shoot it intravenously.

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Looking for God in All the Wrong Places

Alan Lurie | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Beliefs, God, Reason, Faith, Judaism, Belief-in-God, Living News
Alan Lurie

I've come to learn that many people have difficulty encountering God in a way that is consistent with the realities of their lives, the workings of their minds, and the revelations of science.

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Newt Gingrich Misuses, Not Just Misquotes, the Declaration of Independence

Paul Abrams | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Declaration of Independence, The Bible, Media Matters, Preamble, Keith Olbermann, Constitution of the United States, Newt Gingrich, Original Intent, God, Creator, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Media Matters, and then Olbermann, missed Newt's real agenda that is the same as it has always been: to use lies, misstatements and sophistry to mislead the American people.

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Religious Conviction: Effects on the Human Brain

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Errors, Attention, Brain, War, Cingulate, Acc, Forgiveness, God, Anxiety, The Inner Life, Stroop, Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

When our beliefs are invested in something greater than ourselves, they protect us from anxiety because our attention is not on what is going on inside of us.

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Iraq as a Holy War: Why Praying for Divine Support Is a Bad Idea

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, God, War, Crusades, Christianity, Iraq, Rumsfeld, Prayer, Holy Wars, Bush, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Nothing could be more hazardous as a basis for international affairs than relying on God for guidance. The past eight years offer evidence for that conclusion.

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Dog Souls, Animal Intelligence and Human Hubris

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Mind Brain, Religion, Intelligence, Mind Body, God, Self-Awareness, Soul, Egypt, Animals, Living News
Jeff Schweitzer

The assumption must be that animals are moral until proven otherwise. Not the other way around.

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Miss California-USA, How Can You Presume to Speak for God?

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 06.15.2009 | Style

Read More: And Miss CA-USA, God, Gay Marriage, Style News
Joan E. Dowlin

For most of my life I tried to be straight. I was miserable. Now I feel free, empowered, and happy to be who I am.

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Loving Ourselves Unconditionally

John Morton | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Acceptance, Change, John Morton, Empathy, Cooperation, Spirit, Understanding, Unconditional Love, Enthusiasm, Loving, Spiritual Laws, God, Love, Gratitude, Spirituality, Living News
John Morton

A key is to appreciate with gratitude whatever comes your way. Everything has value. Nothing needs to be different from what it is, including you.

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National Day of Prayer: An Exercise in Futility

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Day of Prayer, Religion, Prayer, God, Religion and Politics, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Free will is religion's version of having your cake and eating it too. You can have a god who already preordained everything, you can pray for a different outcome anyway, and you have free will to change your destiny.

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Letter From Paris: Torture, Murder and May Day

Beth Arnold | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: May Day, Ilan-Halimi-Torture, President Barack Obama, Ilan-Halimi, Waterboarding, Paris, Jean-Marie La Pen, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, France, Holocaust Deniers, George W. Bush, Media, God, Dick Cheney, World News
Beth Arnold

While the news of torture was the weekly reader for U.S. citizens, France had its own torture and murder case to deal with.

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Reinterpreting Eve

Tabby Biddle | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Adam and Eve, Women and Self-Esteem, Sacred Feminine, God, Women and Self-Confidence, Goddess, Maria Gimbutas, Women and Spirituality, Divine Feminine, When God Was a Woman, Patriarchy, Tabby Biddle, Living News
Tabby Biddle

Given the story of Eve, it's no wonder that women have an underlying sense of blame, shame and in many cases, a fear of questioning male authority.

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God Joins Twitter, Rewrites Bible

Roy Rivenburg | Posted 05.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Christianity, Religion, God, Bible, Twitter, Satire, Twittering, Comedy News
Roy Rivenburg

God said the only Bible verse that won't need to be shortened is John 11:35 -- "Jesus wept."

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Morality Originates in Religion...Not

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Christianity, Morality, Religiosity, Biological Destiny, Destiny, Biology, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawins, Higher Power, Heaven and Hell, God, Heaven, Hell, Living News
Jeff Schweitzer

Morality is our biological destiny, not a gift from god.

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Where Left, Right, and Center Collide in Civility

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Civil Liberties, God, Repression, Religion and Politics, Boulder-Colorado, Politics News
Chip Berlet

A bunch of clueless mainstream media scribes want you to believe that a handful of centrist Democrats have just devised a way that political discussio...

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Why the God Delusion Won't Go Away

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Skeptics, Religion, God, Richard Dawkins, Cults, Living News
Deepak Chopra

What's the difference between extreme religious conviction and delusion? Between a religion and a cult?

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Is God Stupid?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Abortion, Single Mothers, Unemployment, God, Imprisonment, Unemployment Rate, The Envirinment, Dropout-Rates, Prayer, Black, Faith, High School Dropouts, Aids, HIV/AIDS Africa, Pope Benedict, Karl Marx, Islam, Jews, Episcopalians, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Green News
Michael Henry Adams

Wouldn't benevolent God be more likely to be like your mother or grandmother, than like most of our fathers? It's not that I am an avowed atheist, no...

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Conversations With (And About) God

Mark Joseph | Posted 04.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Religion, Church, Seinfeld, Episcopalians, Gq, Bikini, Juice Bar, Jesus, Los Angeles Times, Biblical, God, Pentecostals, Slackers, Presbyterians, Lutheran, Media News
Mark Joseph

Another friend, actress, comedian and now author, Susan Isaacs wrote, "I could take alcohol or leave it. After I ran out on God, I took alcohol more than I left it. And I kept taking it."

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