I don’t speak for all liberals, much less for all Democrats, but I can say that my share of the so-called “enthusiasm gap” will not be closed by hectoring . Emotional states arise from circumstances and perceptions, not verbal demands to inhabit the emotional states. Worse, hectoring gives rise to annoyance, exasperation, and eventually anger, all of which are miles away from enthusiasm
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Outpost from the Enthusiasm Gap
Kelly Baker H ere’s some interesting reading for your Thursday over at Religion Dispatches and Religion Nerd .
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Thursday Reading: Religious Knowledge, Religious Studies and the Tea Party’s Religion
BBC’s coverage of Archbishop Rowan Williams’ recent interview included this bit at the close: “In his interview Dr Williams also revealed he will retire before hisfull term as Archbishop ends in 10 years, saying: “I will not be doingthis job when I’m 70.”" He could of course come over here to the US, where about fifty percent of the clergy are over 55.
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Archbishop of Canterbury on the limits of his term
Come join me at the 1st annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies , at DePaul University in Chicago, November 5-6, 2010. The CMRS conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines nationwide. Recognizing that the diverse disciplines that have nurtured Mixed Race Studies have reached a watershed moment, the 2010 CMRS conference is devoted to the general theme “Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies.” Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) is the transracial, transdisciplinary, and transnational critical analysis of the institutionalization of social, cultural, and political orders based on dominant conceptions of race
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Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies
(Oh, how I wish I had more time in my day to blog about breaking news like this…) For years in the “Chitlin’ Circuit”, wayfaring Christian soldiers have heard the eerie whispers of Bishop Eddie Long’s desire to create his own army that marched under a different flag – a rainbow one that wisped gently
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Eddie Long Confirms for New Birth an Old Rumor – Sexual Abuse
He arrives in the UK on 16th September 2010 on a state visit paid for, in the main, by UK taxpayers. Why isn’t the British public up in arms about a criminal being lauded and paraded on a state visit? I cannot write about this charade any better than Christopher Hitchens, so here is an extract from a piece he wrote in ‘Slate’ entitled: ‘ A Call for Earthly Justice : Holding the Catholic Church accountable for it’s crimes’: ” As if almost timed to coincide with its publication, and with the impending arrival of Ratzinger on British soil, the
Here in the small town on the edge of the bay facing the big waters we are worried a bit about the two storms whirling their way across the Atlantic.
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Voting in the Primaries: So now they talk of Delaware.
The Church Times reports that the the “Primtes’ document” at the close of the All Africa Bishops Conference of CAPA , was “agreed upon by the primates and the representatives of primates who were not able to attend.” It turns out that that is not true.
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Was CAPA a pawn, or just a wee bit over the top?
As you can see, I had another busy month. There are a lot of spiritual gift ideas here, as well as pages on famous people and one quotes page. Interfaith Jewelry – letting all religions coexist A lot of people are worried about the way different religions antagonize one another
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New spiritual pages on squidoo August 2010
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann said that anti-Muslim rhetoric in America is bad news for anti-terrorism efforts: “We are handing al Qaeda a propaganda coup, an absolute propaganda coup.” By many accounts, the man who could blunt the power of that coup is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the religious leader behind the planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero. The imam has been surprisingly mum on the issue while he…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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What should Imam Rauf say?