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Don Meyer, "Think about it: Sharing the harvest," The Phoenix (Nov. 28, 2009)
Clipping this because it's a reference to a local interfaith anti-hunger initiative (i.e., a gleaning project and food drive, I think), in which my state senator, Andy Dinniman, took a prominent part (and gets praised for it here by the head of the Valley Forge Christian College).
Christopher Landau, "Faiths meet to build ties across religious divides," BBC News (Dec. 8, 2009)
This guy (Christopher Landau, the journalist who wrote this piece) gave an interesting presentation himself on religion and the media.
From ChristianToday, a note on the release of the Poverty and Justice Bible (from the American Bible Society)
The headline, oddly, is "Americans more likely to credit Obama for verse on justice than Bible," which suggests a kind of conservative-Christian disdain for the supposed popular tendency to lionize Obama as a populist champion. The piece highlights a Harris Interactive survey that presented respondents with the quotation, "You must defend those who are helpless and have no hope. Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless," and asked its source. The answers given were Obama (16%), the Bible (13%), the Dalai Lama (9%), MLK (8%), Oprah (4%) and Bono (3%). (It's Proverbs 31.8f.) I have to wonder about methodology. I assume this was a multiple choice question, and without a list of choices I'm sure 95% of respondents would have answered "I don't know." The choices listed by the article only add up to 53%. Anyhow, it's interesting.
Hindu sacrifice of 250,000 animals begins | World news | guardian.co.uk
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The event, which happens every five years, began with decapitation of thousands of buffalo, killed in honour of Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess of power.
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The festivities included a ferris wheel, fortune-telling robots and stalls blaring music and offering tea and sugary snacks.
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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: "That is not racism" - GOP chair Michael Steele
Report: Homosexuality no factor in abusive priests - Yahoo! News
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But the authors said that their evidence to date found no data indicating that homosexuality was a predictor of abuse.
In hand sanitizer we trust - The Globe and Mail
A roundup of some changes made to ritual and liturgy in Montréal, Toronto, and elsewhere in Canada as strategies of counteracting the spread of the flu. The piece has a slightly puffy, amused tone, but I think this is pretty interesting, especially for what it implies about the value of ritual and community as opposed to discourse and information (e.g., if the epidemic gets worse, expect churches to tell everyone to stay home and get their sermons via podcast).
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
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