Paul Harvey Ever wondered about the philosophy and business model of the spirituality catch-all website Belief.net. And who exactly owned it anyway? Yeah, neither did I
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Selling God on the Net: Beliefnet’s Affinity Group
It's all coming together for Steven Hyatt. Intentionally or not, the 27-year-old is combining his interest in religion and philosophy, which he studied as a student at the College of Charleston and Winthrop University, his experience as a technician and printer at Imaging Arts on King Street, his artistic eye and his fascination with the Holy City, his adopted home.
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Holy City sanctuaries
A Malaysian reality TV show aims to pick a young Muslim leader in a blend of doctrine and drama that is a natural fit for a nation that has held to Islamic traditions while welcoming Western culture. The 10 young men have washed corpses according to Islamic rites, cried while counseling unwed pregnant women and joined a police crackdown on teenage motorcycle racers — all before judges on national TV.
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So you think you can be an imam?
Paul Harvey This won’t be shocking news to a lot of readers of this blog, but an interesting column nonetheless: Charles Blow, ” Rise of the Religious Left ,” in yesterday’s NY Times . He begins: Which political party’s members are most likely to believe that Jesus will definitely return to earth before midcentury
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Rise of the Socially Conservative Religious Left
> Paul Harvey Today I’m stealing a post from John Fea, who blogs briefly on the new issue of Books & Culture ( and while we’re on the subject, here is a podcast previewing the issue): It is always an exciting day when the new issue of Books and Culture arrives. The July/August issue showed up in my mailbox today. It includes reviews by Bruce Kuklick, Paul Harvey, Susan Wise Bauer, Peter Colcanis, Alan Jacobs, and Karl E
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Tragedy, Farce, and Theme Park
Our new home page makes things easier to find. HeartofWisdom.com The New Heart of Wisdom Community We have merged our four message board forums into one community with groups. New Groups Homeschool Lapbooking Workboxes Relationship not Religion Hebrew Roots Blogging Homemaking Gardening Green Smoothies FCA
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Heart of Wisdom Changes
Randall Stephens In honor of the weekend’s rockets red glare and wild competitive eating contests, I post here a couple of primary source items related to the National Reform Association.
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This Land is Our Land: Surprising or Otherwise Interesting Primary Sources, Part VIII, Fourth of July Edition
For more than two thousand years, this Karnatakan town has been sacred to the Jains . It was here, in the third century BC, that the first Emperor of India, Chandragupta Maurya, embraced the Jain religion and died through a self-imposed …
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Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: Jainism and Buddhism
I’m pleased today to guest post another contribution from Benjamin Park , a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh who normally blogs at Juvenile Instructor. Ben’s post concerns material he had researched for his master’s thesis, about reactions/responses to Thomas Paine from The Age of Reason to Christopher Hitchens to the Tea Party Movement
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The Strange Career of Thomas Paine
Justices say UC Hastings College of the Law did not violate the 1st Amendment rights of a Christian group. The school had denied the group official status because it refused to accept ‘all comers.’ A University of California law school’s refusal to give official student group status to a Christian society that excluded gays was a reasonable application of the school’s nondiscrimination policy, the Supreme Court said Monday in a 5-4 ruling.
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Supreme Court rules against UC student group that excluded gays