Oregon’s Department of Human Services on Tuesday won custody of a child who faced blindness in one eye after her parents treated her with prayer instead of seeking medical care. The girl’s parents, Timothy and Rebecca Wyland , face criminal charges for failing to provide adequate care
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State wins custody rights over girl in Oregon City faith-healing case
I read an article in Insight Newsletter , the Newsletter of the Insight Meditation Society, talking about efforts of various people involved in social justice work. The article began by pointing out the obvious, that “[w]hen you look at what’s going on in the world, it’s a challenge not to be extremely angry and harrowed.” There are sufferings of the world that just make me sad – a tsunami that kills many people.
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Motivation for (Social) Change
It is generous of Cathy Lynn Grossman to walk us through the hazards of posing thoughtless rhetorical questions: [Jerry] Coyne argues we must clear vision from the fog of belief and religious structures that nourish communities of faith. No common awe for the dazzling sunrise here
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A Rhetorical Scared Straight
There has been much discussion in Catholic circles about the new English-language translation of the Mass texts, not to mention the process that led to the recent approval by the Vatican of the final version. The changes are to be implemented during Advent 2011. Reaction among Catholics has been mixed.
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For All or For Many
Nicholas Kristof has created a quiz that exposes unflattering passages from all the leading brands of revealed faith — Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. What is the point of his little quiz? [T]he point of this little quiz is that religion is more complicated than it sometimes seems, and that we should be wary of rushing to inflammatory conclusions about any faith, especially based on cherry-picking texts.
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Scriptures Demoted
‘New atheists’ encourage open confrontation; ‘accommodationists’ prefer a subtler, more tactical approach. At a Council for Secular Humanism conference, tension is evident.
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Religious skeptics disagree on how aggressively to challenge the devout
Driving through the city, we might notice the construction projects, the garbage trucks, the landscapers trimming the hedges, the school buses passing by.
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Bluesphere project reveals, through art, our impact on the environment, society
Rabbi Capers Funnye, a first cousin of Michelle Obama and dubbed “Obama's rabbi,” will appear at the College of Charleston to deliver the Milton and Freddie Kronsberg Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 in the Stern Center Ballroom, George and Glebe streets.
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'Obama's rabbi' to speak at college
Gotham Chopra, 35-year-old son of the 63-year-old physician, motivational speaker and bestselling author, is a down-to-earth guy who eats meat, drinks Coke and tries to keep a tether on his deep-thinking dad. Imagine for a moment what it must be like to be Deepak Chopra’s son.
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Like father, like son? Not with the Chopras
To follow up on Paul Harvey’s earlier post about Thomas Kidd’s God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution , this weekend BookTV is airing a lecture Kidd delivered recently at Indiana Wesleyan University. (Incidentally, as Paul also posted , Indiana Wesleyan is hosting a conference organized by religion scholar Rusty Hawkins , Divided by Faith: A Decade Retrospective , next week.) Find additional information and show times of Kidd’s lecture here
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God of Liberty: BookTV