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: Politics & Culture
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March 2nd, 2006
The author of Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right talks about America's spiritual crisis
FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover once called Michael Lerner the most dangerous man in America because of his anti-Vietnam war activities. A sixties radical and member of the ... |
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February 22nd, 2006
Understanding Muslim reaction to the Mohammed cartoons
As television newscasters were reporting every night for weeks back in April 2002 on the story of Israeli troops surrounding Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity and the Franciscan Monks who had ... |
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February 10th, 2006
Censorship and the Super Bowl
It seemed like only a year ago we had buried the Super Bowl censorship debate for good.
When Paul McCartney took the stage with his piano in ... |
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February 1st, 2006
A New Documentary Shows Shocking Truth of Flesh Trade
Since the fall of the Berlin wall roughly 8 million Eastern European women have gone missing. Most have been trafficked into sexual slavery in North America, Asia and the ... |
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January 30th, 2006
An ancient practice under a different name
When she was 13-years old and working as a waitress near Vera Cruz, Mexico, Rosa was offered an opportunity to make more money as a waitress in the United ... |
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January 24th, 2006
Wisdom, courage and a good family life, the Old Testament's Deborah "had it all"
Ok, I admit it…in the Bible the men pulled off some pretty incredible feats: Moses parted the sea; Elijah called down fire from heaven to incinerate the wicked priests of Baal; ... |
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January 19th, 2006
John Paul II gave us a moment that we need to remember
When Pope John Paul II's would-be assasin, Mehmet Ali Agca, was released from a Turkish jail last week after serving almost 25 years behind bars—except for the complete transformation ... |
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January 16th, 2006
BustedHalo's conversation with the co-founder of Killing the Buddha and author of the memoir Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and their Son
By the time he was in his late twenties, Peter Manseau had already received a bachelors degree in religion, spent time in a Trappist monastery considering a vocation to ... |
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January 12th, 2006
Critic Harold Bloom wrestles with God in Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine
Who is Jesus? Who is God? Is it possible to discuss them apart from theological abstractions, as personalities with distinctly individual ways of seeing the world? And if so, ... |
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January 4th, 2006
The controversial Catholic author talks about his new book on one of the Church's oldest prayers
As a cultural historian and author, Garry Wills has spent more than three decades researching and writing on historical figures like Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan (his ... |
