A store clerk talks religion with the man holding her up.
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Religion and the Robber
When I was first assigned here two years ago, I was looking forward to catching the Hispanic spirit and culture. However, I soon learned that those in the local Evangelical Lutheran Church in America had struggled to reflect the demographics of our community.
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Lutherans past due in embrace of Hispanic community
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
Kelly J. Baker It’s summer, which means fiction and sunshine, but I am teaching summer session. This means less fiction and sunshine, and more of a focus on my own teaching style and what I cover
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Gender Me, Gender Religion
Randall Stephens Over at the Washington Post ‘s On Faith blog Anthony Stevens-Arroyo offers an interesting historical take on Catholicism and contemporary politics. For those faithful who are ready to pitch their tent with the Tea Party, he points to a 16th-century counter example: Jesuit priest Juan de Mariana (1536-1624). Stevens-Arroyo contrasts the radicalism of Mariana with Tea Party anti-statism
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Anthony Stevens-Arroyo on Catholics and the Tea Party
When the Feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Without warning there was a sound like a strong wind, gale force—no one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building
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The Upper Room is becoming the Living Room
Bishop Winston Halapua who is to be made BIshop of Polynesia and Archbishop and Primate (one of threee) in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia on Sunday next is reported by The Voxy News Engine to have said this: photo from Voxy News Engine ” The mission,” he said, “is simply to preach the Gospel, to teach theGospel, to live the Gospel – and to pass it on .” But the kind ofmission leadership he longs to offer, he says, will only become areality when he plunges into the lives of the people and thecommunities he’s been chosen to serve. Read the whole article HERE.
By Michael J. Altman As I’ve mentioned before, I’m spending the summer working through that wonderful mid-Ph.D-program rite of passage: studying for qualifying exams. I’ve also just finished another rite of passage for students of American religious history.
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Meditations on a Classic, or, American Religious History in the 21st Century