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God: Skip Seconds This Thanksgiving?

Christine Whelan | Posted 12.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, University of Iowa, USA Today, Thanksgiving, Fat, Weight Loss, God, Diet, Thanksgiving Commentary, Faith, Family, Living News
Christine Whelan

Previously the realm of fundamentalists, bringing a higher power into dieting has gone mainstream. Today, it's not only Christians who see fat as a spiritual issue.

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Is It Logical To Believe In God?

beliefnet.com | Heather MacDonald and Michael Novak | Posted 12.16.2008 | Living

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Do skeptics, agnostics and atheists have anything in common with people of faith? The recent popularity of books on both sides shows many opinions but...

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Hey Mr. God, Lookie What I Did to Those Nasty Homosexuals!

Tom Gregory | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

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Tom Gregory

The passage of California's Prop 8 comes to many as a shock, to some as a wake-up call, and to the rest of America as no real surprise. In 2000, B...

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Praise God?

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 12.07.2008 | Living

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Paul Raushenbush

Obama's election does not wipe out the vicious racism of centuries, and Prop 8 shows that there is still work to be done confronting the discrimination of Gay and Lesbian people.

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The Incredible Shrinking God Gap

Steven Waldman | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Steven Waldman

No Democrat since Jimmy Carter has spoken as openly, and as often, about his personal faith, as Barack Obama.

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President Obama: Bad News For the New Atheists and Other Fundamentalists

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

There is no way to understand President elect Obama's victory as anything less than the start of not just a monumental political change but a spiritual revolution as well.

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A Letter to Sarah Palin from God

Ellis Weiner | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

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Ellis Weiner

You are a disappointment to Me, Sarah. You seem to think that what you profess to believe -- and, indeed, what you may actually in fact believe -- is more important than what you do.

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Reading The Pictures: God, Obama

Michael Shaw | Posted 11.30.2008 | Media

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Michael Shaw

Framing Obama as an aspiring deity works like a red cape in the face of the Christian right by flaunting the notion Obama somehow sees himself as a God, God himself, or, the son of God.

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Will God Stop Voting?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.29.2008 | Living

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Deepak Chopra

There never will be, and never should be, a religious reason to pick one candidate over another. God hasn't personally voted in an American election, but he keeps voting by proxy.

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Obama Doesn't Need to Atone, May Seem Out of Touch

Sam Sanders | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

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Sam Sanders

Many American voters want to see a person like themselves, someone who has atoned for past mistakes and is reborn as a dedicated public leader. Unfortunately, Obama does not fit in this mold.

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You Can Sue God, But You Can't Win

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living

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Cathleen Falsani

The intersection of theodicy -- the theological conundrum of "If God is good why is there evil in the world?" -- and our human penchant toward the litigious has ancient historical roots.

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Idolizing Ideology: Republican Exceptionalism

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

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Paul Raushenbush

On Oct 2nd, Sarah Palin ended the Vice Presidential debate by voicing her strong belief in American exceptionalism, - that America has a unique blessi...

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God's Hybrid

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living

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Dr. Jeffrey McCombs

Somewhere along the primordial way, a bunch of micro-organisms became enclosed by, fewer in number, but larger "tissue" cells and the evolutionary rac...

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Crisis as a Test of Faith

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.15.2008 | Living

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Deepak Chopra

It feels as if Obama, a naturally cautious, deliberate adult, gives little quarter to fear and anger. He will serve as a counter-example Bush, whose entire career in office has been fueled by both.

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Mavericks to Nowhere

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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Dr. Susan Corso

Sarah Palin makes vague claims to have gay friends -- and no one can find any of them anywhere, alive, dead or in print.

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The Story of Silly George -- The King Who Believed in an Imaginary Magicfriendinthesky

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

You see, the silly prince's brain had quit working the same way that all people's brains quit working when they decide they've found One Truth that solves everything.

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An Open Letter to Bill Maher About Faith

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media

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Dr. Susan Corso

I know that your new film is about to debut, Religulous, and that you mean it to be funny. Truthfully, my friend, faith is a funny thing. Not funny ha-ha, funny odd.

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Praying For Pipelines Not My Kind Of Religion

Linda Hansen | Posted 10.23.2008 | Home

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Linda Hansen

Most people of faith pray for peace, an end to poverty, disease and human suffering. For others, their God wants the good guys to have the big bomb, most of the world's oil and plenty of cash.

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If Paul Reiser is Right, What Does That Say About America?

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.19.2008 | Living

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Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

If someone tells them what they can or can't do (e.g. no more choice), their world is less stressful, less full of personal decision-making.

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The Divided States of America: One Nation Under Two Gods

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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Michelle Haimoff

These diametrically opposed, partisan visions of America can never be reconciled because both parties feel that they are fundamentally saving the other party from itself.

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The Media Sentinels Of Palin's God

Ellis Dean | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home

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Ellis Dean

Pat Buchanan and his ilk would place Palin's religion beyond analysis. They would have her kind of faith be a one-way factor in government: capable of influencing decisions but protected from examination.

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Knowing God's Will in Politics and Government: Gov. Palin's Bankrupt Theology

William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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William E. Jackson Jr.

The real danger of religion in politics is not the relationship as such, but the stubborn and immovable mind set that baptizes political interests as authorized by God.

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G O P is not G O D

Buddy Winston | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home

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Buddy Winston

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What Do Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney have in Common?

Omid Memarian | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Foriegn Policy, Offshore Drilling, Sarah Palin, Sara Palin, Iraq, Pregnant Daughter, Oil, Republicans, President Bush, Mary Cheney, God, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Omid Memarian

Both love hunting. It's not clear how this ties into their social and political values, particularly when it comes to foreign policy. But, it is a commonality. Both love guns -- one locally, the other globally.

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Fear of God

Dan Pasternack | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Dan Pasternack

The unwavering faith in absolute truth that belongs to evangelicals is incredibly powerful. And it's the reason why Sarah Palin is a brilliant choice as John McCain's running mate.

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