Fifteen bishops of the Church of England have penned a letter regarding the actions of the Church of England which has begun the legislative process that will lead, barring new twists and turns, to the ordination of women to the episcopate in England by 2014. The letter is rather convoluted, since it does not express a single mind regarding actions to be taken.
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Fifteen English Bishops in an anti-democratic snit.
A Fractal is a unique form of nondenominational fellowship that has stripped every modern convention away from Christian worship. Based solely on individual connections, it’s essentially “church without church.” FaithInSA.com
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Worshippers strong on faith, but not church
Paul Harvey Randall beat me to the punch with his post on religion in the colonial South, and its relative importance as portrayed in recent scholarship as compared with its conventional role in older works as a foil for Yankee Puritanism.
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Religion in the Early South, Redux
WASHINGTON — Fifteen young American religious scholars and 14 teaching assistants from Al Azhar University, one of the oldest and most influential Islamic institutions in the world, spent two weeks together this month at Georgetown University in an attempt to bridge the divide between the Muslim world and the United States.
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Visit seeks to bridge the gap
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — They gather blocks from Harvard Square to greet the Sabbath with communal prayer, their eyes winced closed, hands clapping as they sing in fervent Hebrew. The group worships in the Jewish Orthodox tradition, but it's not traditional.
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Unaffiliated groups influence Judaism
Randall Stephens Rebecca Goetz and Lauren Winner have convinced me that historians have long had some ahistorical assumptions about the role of religion in colonial Virginia. (And, when many are teaching on a subject that is well out of their field–me included–they tend to dust off the old fables and retell them as fact.) Of course, there are glaring differences between the Mass Bay Colony and Virginia.
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Religion and the Founding of Virginia
Acclaimed vampire author and official nocturnal lady, Anne Rice, has denounced her relationship with Christianity via CNN.
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Anne Rice leaves Christianity… but was she ever there initially?
Ludhiana, Punjab: The Gutkas of Japji Sahib and Rehraas Sahib, which are revered in Sikh faith, are being disrespected by some people. They are making paper-bags for carrying groceries from paper of these Gutkas
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Gutkas published by Sikh Missionary College Ludhiana end up as paper bags
A radio discussion (it also can be heard online) of the dharmic faiths of Jainism , Buddhism, Sikhism and Hinduism will air from 7 pm to 8 pm tonight on AM 1440 radio during Hindu University Hour. The panel discussion will be moderated …
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Radio show on Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism airs in Orlando …
Gerardo Marti This week afforded me a bit of reading and reflection through Heidegger’s Being and Time as part of my ongoing attempt to grow in my scholarship. As an ethnographer, I regularly immerse myself in religious communities both short and long term — see a recent post at Duke Divinity blog about a recent church visit — and as such am regularly confronted with what was introduced to me as “ the insider/outsider problem of religion .” The dilemma centers around a core question: Who is best able to understand religion, the committed or the agnostic? More important, what are the challenges and solutions for achieving a satisfactory understanding of religion (not just for scholars, but for everyone) considering one’s stance
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Heidegger and the Quandary of Insider/Outsider Roles in Religious Research: A Methodological Note