BusinessWeek online, January 21, 1991, on Catechic, a Catholic trivia board game
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Adam Harrison Levy, "Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs," from Design Observer (Nov. 10, 2008)
The story of a mysterious cache of photographs taken of Hiroshima after the detonation of the atomic bomb, which resurfaced in Massachusetts decades later. Some remarkable images.
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Cindy Jacobs: Prayer Needed for Global Economies
Description of prayers that God will intercede to assist the NYSE and the Fed. Cindy Jacobs says, "We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the 'Lion’s Market,' or God’s control over the economic systems." Seen on Alison Shaffer's Facebook page.
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Mark Oppenheimer, "Knowing Not [review of Prothero, Religious Literacy]," NYT Book Review (June 10, 2007)
Interesting, mostly positive, but critical review.
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Washington Post, "On Faith" series: Stephen R. Prothero (Boston University) debates Barry Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State)
Prothero kicks Lynn's ass, if you ask me. Lynn comes across looking desperate. However, if you check my Diigo annotations, you'll see that in the antepenultimate and penultimate points (Prothero, then Lynn), I think an important issue comes up, namely, how to deal with the inherent contestedness of any tradition. Whose version of Christianity, or whatever, do you teach? This doesn't seem like a problem that ought to stymie Prothero's proposal, but it is extraordinarily thorny, much more difficult to deal with than it might seem at first.
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Andrew Delbanco, "A Higher Education: Can the Humanities Survive? (Review of Kronman, Education's End)," from Commonweal 135/16 (Sept. 28, 2008)
Clipping mainly because he favorably mentions my institution, Ursinus. Links: CiteBite http://snipr.com/47j35 , original article http://snipr.com/47j2t
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Survey: Evangelicals back John McCain; other religious voters shift to Barack Obama | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Religion | The Dallas Morning News
Excerpt:" In a significant shift in party support from four years ago, monthly churchgoers are backing Democrat Barack Obama in this year’s presidential race, according to a new poll."
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Doonesbury, Sept. 28, 2008 on "24" and torture
Sort of funny. Sort of ... not.
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Surveying the Arab World for Ramadan's Best and Worst
A Dubai marketing firm has surveyed Muslim attitudes and practices regarding Ramadan, with some interesting results -- though I'm skeptical about some of the numbers.
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Lyndsay Moss, "Pope: Millions are losing their religion and declaring God is dead," The Scotsman (Oct. 6, 2008)
Interesting how Benedict unproblematically draws this connection between religious belief and national identity.
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Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times
From the Army Times -- the first ever active-unit assignment to the US Army Northern Command. A brigade combat team will be deployed to Georgia (under a command in Colorado Springs) presumably as part of a permanent domestic mission. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but this is just ever-so-slightly unnerving.
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Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist beliefs and public policy - Los Angeles Times
Palin apparently told a left-wing Alaska blogger that she believed that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time" back in 1997. Via BoingBoing
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Interviews: Still Growing | Christianity Today Movies
Interview with Kirk Cameron about his work with the Kendricks (a Christian filmmaking team) on the movie Fireproof.
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t r u t h o u t | RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"
There is some real doubt as to whose votes will actually get to count in the November 2008 federal elections. It's worth reading the whole interview.
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Altiris Software Virtualization Solution - free for personal use
A virtualization tool. I have to confess that I'm not sure what this does, but for someone like me who likes to try out new applications and then uninstall them, this might be useful. Free for personal use. Seen in Carols Ayala's Friendfeed stream.
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Catechism Edit 'Troubling,' Jewish Leaders Say - washingtonpost.com
This sentence will shortly be cut from the Roman Catholic catechism: "Thus the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through Moses remains eternally valid for them."
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North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and Philosophy, March 28-29, St. Francis U., Loretto, PA
Theme: "The Common Good." Proposals are due by Feb. 13, 2009; full papers by March 13; contact person is Arthur Remillard (aremillard@francis.edu).
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Voter Suppression Wiki Home - Voter Suppression Wiki
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Internal DHS Documents Detail Expansion of Power to Read and Copy Travelers' Papers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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