KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 1 — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s backtracking on the need for the formation of a national consultative council on religious harmony is sending the wrong signal, says religious groups and Yayasan 1Malaysia.
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Mainstream Religion a Unifying Thread: Part V Hinduism Student Operated Press Hinduism , if I may be permitted to call it that does, not suffer from this problem. Hinduism is not a monolithic entity as is the case for many mainstream …
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Mainstream Religion a Unifying Thread: Part V Hinduism – Student Operated Press
‘I feel as if I’m carrying a Ming vase across a very slippery floor,” a Shadow Cabinet minister told me recently. “I’m terrified I’m the one who’s going to drop it.” It was a metaphor first used by Roy Jenkins to describe Tony Blair in the run-up to the 1997 election but it now applies to David Cameron as well, as the country prepares to go to the polls again.
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Tories should be most afraid of their own fear
Footballers are not entirely like the rest of us. Yesterday, in a Sky interview, the former England forward, Steve Bull, was talking about the former England goalkeeper, Bert Williams, who celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday. “If I get to half that age,” said Bull, “I’ll be happy.” It turns out that Bull will be 45 on March 28.
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The peculiar urge to sack the England captain
There are many ways you can find yourself slipping the moorings of cultural comprehension as you burrow deeper into middle age.
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The stars of the future – we name names
In 2008, as financial titans bit the dust, no US official dared to say the D-word. It was economically incorrect. Even whispering it could trigger more bank runs
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If banks can’t borrow, they won’t be able to fail
Our planet has just enjoyed a weekend of rare company. The “wolf Moon”, as it is known to native Americans, has hung huge and full at its nearest point to Earth. Mars, meanwhile, has made its closest approach in six years, its red glow almost as bright as any star
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Robots are the true pioneeers of our age
Art Remillard Despite the request , I have nothing interesting to say about the Leo Frank lynching. Kelly Baker’s insights ( here and here ) are far more interesting than mine–trust me.
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A Surprisingly Unsurprising Look at Southern Jewish Life in the Age of Leo Frank
The Pope is coming to the UK this year and just to ensure maximum publicity, he has announced that Britain has put in place laws which discriminate against the religious. He states that equal rights has gone too far basically it is wrong that Christians cannot discriminate against gay and lesbian people! This should come as no surprise to those of us who know the history of the Catholic Church. Here’s a quote from his speech: “Your country is well known for its firm commitment to equality of opportunity for all members of society
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The Pope – The Bigot
Six years ago today, Douglas LeBlanc clicked his Mac mouse and GetReligion was born as a small website on TypePad. We had a simple goal, but one that was a bit hard to explain to folks on the outside. GetReligion was not and is not a site about religion news.
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GetReligion turns 6, believe it or not
You may have noticed the new tab for Cor Deo at the top of the page. Cor Deo is a mentored study and ministry training programme that I am helping to launch. The name Cor Deo means “a heart for God” and it is our desire to multiply ministry that shares God’s heart by means of a relationally shaped training programme. The basic approach will be to invite 6-12 individuals to join the team of mentors for an intensive full-time training programme from February through to July (starting next year). During this time the team will share a unique study programme between Tuesday and Thursday each week, and then be exposed to a variety of ministry situations by sharing ministry together with the mentors over the weekends. We want to study, grow and serve together.
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Mentored Training – Cor Deo
A Portland, Oregon man, Craig Clark Show, filed suit on January 17 against the Idaho State Police and the Bonner County, Idaho, Sheriff’s Office, alleging that the police destroyed the mystical qualities of his medicine bag when they opened it after Show was stopped for speeding on his motorcycle. According to Friday’s Bonner County Daily Bee , Show says the medicine bag imparts protection after it was blessed by a medicine woman and sealed in 1995
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Suit Claims Police Destroyed Mystical Qualities of Medicine Bag
ਚਰਨ ਕਮਲ ਸਿੰਘ posted a photo: A new illustration I came up with, this will hopefully be printed on to t shirts, more t shirts to come soon! keep an eye out. this was drawn in illustrator, my fave software! i apologize for the annoying watermark but alot of people seem to think its ok to take my work without asking and use it as their own
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Sant jarnail Singh Ji Bhindranwale
This historic man-snake-nose image is meant to serve as an eye-pleasing placekeeper while I am off to better places for a few days. I might chip in a few brief posts using the text messaging thingy, but then again, I might not so chip, if only because I am uncertain of cell reception where I’m going. Hint: it’s not here.
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Bye Bye Snakey
Mark 5: 1-20 2 Sm 15: 13-14,30;16:5-13/Ps 3 “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Swear to God that you won’t torture me!” (Mark 5:7) Avoid any form of obsession It will lead us away from the Lord; From the evil spirits’ possession, Be freed by the power of God’s Word. They went across the lake to
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The Demoniac of Gerasene
Hashivenu Messianic Judaism is open-minded, but faithful; contemporary, but traditional;…Hashivenu is a renewal movement within Messianic Judaism (see hashivenu. org)….I think if many of our critics from within Messianic Judaism and related groups came, they would be surprised to find a great deal of agreement with the ideas we d iscuss….If you care about Jewish-Christian relations, what’s going on in the future of Jewish Yeshua-faith, and the observant, traditional side of Messianic Judaism, w e are a large part of it….
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Live-blogging Hashivenu 2010
The agreement between Rifqa Bary and her parents to settle their conflict through counseling has ended without a single meeting between the parents and their daughter, according to a motion filed in Franklin County Juvenile Court.
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Agreement between Rifqa Bary, parents to settle conflict short-lived
Randall Stephens John Cotton was one of the most ambitious and bedeviled Puritan ministers of late-17th century New England. He was pastor of the Wethersfield, Conn., church in his early twenties. He lost the pulpit as the result of a sex scandal and subsequently worked as an Indian missionary on Martha’s Vineyard
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Misunderstood Puritans, John Cotton, and Scandal in 17th-Century New England: An Interview with Sheila McIntyre and Len Travers
Tattva Magazine (blog) Hinduism , There is No -ism, by Sai Santosh Kolluru Tattva Magazine (blog) Author on Hinduism , Yoga, and Ayurveda.
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Hinduism, There is No -ism, by Sai Santosh Kolluru – Tattva Magazine (blog)
The Hindu War against ignorance The Hindu His use of the word 'war' is scary, and his predicting the end of Hinduism sounds improbable, but, says Ilaiah, the largely unopposed “spiritual fascism” of …
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Oneindia Satsang With Swami Chinmayananda-On Hinduism And Philosophy Oneindia Hinduism is the way-of-life of the Hindus. Hinduism cannot be termed as a religion.
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Satsang With Swami Chinmayananda-On Hinduism And Philosophy – Oneindia
According to today’s New Delhi Pioneer, a two-judge panel of the Supreme Court of India last week held that civil service rules of the state of Rajasthan barring any state employee from taking a second wife without permission of the state takes precedence over the Muslim Personal Law that allows Muslim men to have a second wife. Liyakat Ali, a former constable in the Rajasthan Police, was fired in 1986 and has been in litigation over the civil service ban ever since. Muslim leaders say the Supreme Court’s ruling interferes with the religious rights of the Muslim community
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Indian Supreme Court Says Civil Service Rules Trump Muslim Personal Law
I don’t mean by the title, choosing which product to buy (although when I first moved back to the US after two years of living in Nepal, India and Thailand, I found that to be no easy task). Rather, I’m talking about making choices for where we devote our energy, choosing among options that are good. If we are on a spiritual path, our choice for where to devote our energies is generally not between a good and a bad choice
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Choosing Among Goods
Gayle Haggard, the loyal wife of fallen evangelical mega-pastor Ted Haggard, was all over the mainstream media world (Oprah, “Today,” etc.) last week promoting her new book: “Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in My Darkest Hour.” With this book blitz, reporting on the Ted Haggard story has now officially moved from Chapter 1 in the Media Playbook (Hard news: Scandal) to Chapter 3 (Features: “Lifie”) without going through Chapter 2 (Analysis: What the heck is really going on here?). Readers would have benefited from deeper questioning
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‘Lifies’ and the Haggard saga
It may seem strange to be told to look at Hebrew idioms or aspects of Judaism, because for years, or even decades, it has been understood that our English New Testament i s based on Greek manuscripts.
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Understanding the difficult words of Jesus: New insights from a Hebraic perspective
Hi, It's Marriage Monday. This month the readers and contributors to Marriage Monday at Chrysalis chose this topic for our community: How to Celebrate February 14 Every Day of the Year. It’s early Sunday afternoon and I am sitting at the kitchen table with my laptop. Across from me sits my husband with his laptop.
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Marriage Monday – He Still Makes My Heart Melt
Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.
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Baptists accused of child peddling in Haiti