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Also, I made a brand new Riffing Religion video (another riff on some Harun Yahyah creationist claptrap about “science” in the Quran), which I should be putting up shortly
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Riffing Religion – New Channel, Highlights, and Outtakes
As your GetReligionistas have noted many times , it’s pretty obvious that many people — including more than a few mainstream reporters — are confused about the meaning of the word “evangelical.” Heck, I’m not sure that I know what that word means anymore and I used to be one. The Rev
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Christine O’Donnell, Catholic?
Paul Harvey Alright, ya’ll going to the American Academy of Religion meeting in Atlanta, time to make your plans for “The Future of Southern Religious History,” coming up the last morning of the conference, Monday morning, Nov. 1 in the Marriot Marquis in Atlanta.
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The Future of Southern Religious History
A columnist at the Wall Street Journal used to regularly feature snippets from sports columnists who fancied themselves political pundits. You’d be expecting a nice piece on the last golf tournament but you’d instead get some tirade about the Iraq War or how awful President Bush is.
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New Yorker fears Berenstain Bears?
While I remain dutifully committed in my quest to find the #1 Frida Kahlo fan , I continue to nurture my own compulsion: collecting and generating realtime results for my favorite deceased painter. search: Frida Kahlo Paintings | Frida Kahlo Photos | Frida Kahlo Art | Photos As Frida | Frida Kahlo Products | Frida Kahlo Tattoos
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Internet Kahlo
From SSRN: Stephanie R. Hoffer, Caesar as God’s Banker: Using Germany’s Church Tax as an Example of Non-Geographically Bounded Taxing Jurisdiction , ( Washington University Global Studies Law Review, Forthcoming). Walker Humphrey, Dennis the Menace?: An Analysis of Whether the Episcopal Church’s Dennis Canon Entitles the Church to an Exemption from Neutral Trust Law , (September 27, 2010)
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Recent Articles of Interest
City tax authorities in four British cities– London, Westminster, Birmingham and Sunderland– have given the Church of Scientology property tax relief even though it is not classified as a charitable religious organization by the Charity Commission.
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British Cabinet Minister Criticizes Cities’ Tax Breaks For Scientology
Campbell Soup Co., the Camden, N.J., food giant, has been fighting a grass-roots boycott of its products after its Canadian subsidiary rolled out a line of soups certified as halal, meaning they’re prepared according to Islamic dietary laws.
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A Canadian line of Campbell’s soups has activists stewing over Islamic connection
On Friday I wrote about note takers and made a passing comment about the idea of people returning to their notes and reviewing. I think it is only fair to suggest that many never achieve that goal, even if they have it. But even if they do, it raises an issue. Is my goal to make my listeners need my outline in order to navigate their way through a passage? Certainly this is better than being lost in a passage. But personally I would rather preach so as to motivate people to go back to the passage, not my outline. Furthermore, I would rather preach to equip people to get the main thrust of the passage and know how to apply the text and respond to the God who inspired the text.
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Back to the Note Takers
Despite remarkable popularity and obsessive fans not seen since the head Deadhead died, Insane Clown Posse manages to attract little attention from music critics or cultural commentators. (For the uninitiated, look upon their wikipedia , ye mighty, and despair.) But despite the amazingly off-putting profanity and sexual imagery of Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope’s horrorcore lyrics, clearly these two rappers have a powerful ability to connect with what I think it’s fair to characterize as an alienated and disaffected fan base.
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The carnival is God