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CaféPress merchandise emblazoned with "Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8"
Archived: http://sqrl.it/?krnql
Kelly G. Lambert, "What My Research Students Did Over Summer Vacation," Chronicle of Higher Education (Nov. 8, 2009)
Archived version: http://sqrl.it/?iay20
Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question - NYTimes.com
Fascinating article -- a UK court has declared that any definition of Judaism based on descent -- i.e., on whether an individual's mother is Jewish -- is ipso facto discriminatory and thus illegal. The context was an admissions policy for a publicly-funded Jewish school, which had excluded a student applicant because the school's Orthodox policy did not recognize the mother's conversion, conducted in a liberal setting, as valid and thus did not accept the applicant's claim to be Jewish. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?l3q8t and http://www.webcitation.org/5lBnaZcq8
Book Burning (event announcement for Amazing Grace Baptist Church KJV in North Carolina, Halloween 2009)
They plan to burn, apparently, three classes of items: first, bibles that are not the KJV; second, music that is not Christian; and third, books by "heretics," mainly meaning Christians who espouse theological positions different from those of this church. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?vqeuf
Syllabus: Richard Cohen, Theory of Religion (LTCS 250), UCSD Winter 2005
Another version from archive.org (which seems to be identical): http://sqrl.it/?umc9b
William Langeswiesche, "The Lessons of ValuJet 592," The Atlantic Online (March 1998)
Archived: http://sqrl.it/?8v8ss and http://www.webcitation.org/5kHrqjV7p
Ron Suskind, "Without a Doubt," The New York Times (Oct. 17, 2004)
Webcite: http://www.webcitation.org/5kFWxrqmd
Iterasi: http://sqrl.it/?46up7
Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan on Faith, Religion, Tolerance, Moderates, Bible, God, Islam, Atheism, Jesus, Christian Nation - Beliefnet.com
Archived: http://sqrl.it/?lb015 and http://www.webcitation.org/5jiUdtg5S
Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate, "How a Detainee Became An Asset: Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding," The Washington Post (August 29, 2009)
The argument comes up here that torture provides a religiously legitimate "excuse" for detainees to cooperate with interrogators. In other words, Islamic law permits a person to violate certain other legal obligations while under threat of harm. (This is debatable, though. I discovered this article via Daily Kos, http://j.mp/2pNBNe, where there's a contradictory Islamic legal opinion.) Archived: http://sqrl.it/?840yg and http://www.webcitation.org/5jXqQh8wS
K.L. Noll, "The Ethics of Being a Theologian," The Chronicle Review (July 27, 2009)
Archived: http://sqrl.it/?vdehe
Rick Perlstein -- Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage - washingtonpost.com
Cf. David Brion Davis and the "paranoid style" in U.S. political culture. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?fsq7a
Sue This School | The Big Money (on Trina Thompson, the Monroe College grad who sued because she couldn't find a job)
Interesting perspective on the Trina Thompson vs. Monroe College lawsuit. This one sides with the student -- you don't hear this too often, but he makes a good point, namely, that this is a purely for-profit operation that advertises itself solely on the basis of its ability to secure employment for graduates. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?u4mdz
Sarah Netter, "Christian Teen Flees Home, Says She Fears Honor Killing by Muslim Father," ABC News (August 12, 2009)
Six-minute video interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0P5IaIE_LI -- Archived: http://sqrl.it/?7bkln
3 Paths to Better Teaching, and When to Stray From Them - Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Archived: http://sqrl.it/?zp2kd
Connecting College Majors and Religiosity - Student Affairs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
More on the U of M study. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?1fi4t
Laura Munson, "Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear (Modern Love)," The New York Times (July 31, 2009)
From the article: "'I don't love you anymore. I'm not sure I ever did.' His words came at me like a speeding fist, like a sucker punch, yet somehow in that moment I was able to duck. And once I recovered and composed myself, I managed to say, 'I don't buy it.' Because I didn't.'... He'd lost pride in himself. Maybe that's what happens when our egos take a hit in midlife and we realize we're not as young and golden anymore." Archived: http://sqrl.it/?lgavr
Richard Feynman, "The Relation of Sciecne and Religion," talk given at the Caltech YMCA Lunch Forum (May 2, 1956)
Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5il1lY7dH -- http://sqrl.it/?w48ub
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