Tag: religion
group name: intheloop
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July 07, 2008 09:48 PM EDT --
Patriotism is ACTION inspired by a profound sense of RESPONSIBILITY to one's country. American patriotism is a duty to act toward the creation of a more perfect union.
Sometimes that duty means . . . more
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July 02, 2008 10:37 AM EDT --
There are millions of undocumented workers in this country who came here for nothing more than an opportunity to work hard and find security for themselves and their families.
American companies . . . more
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March 28, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
Exploring a New Humanism
I first met Greg Epstein, as it happens, at a fantastic conference pulled together by Eboo Patel's Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago. This was an energetic gathering . . . more
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February 09, 2008 09:36 PM EST --
This is me, Laura Cushing. I'm 37 years old - I'm the mother of three teenagers, the wife of one loveable Austin. I live in the New Jersey Pines with my family. I write my music column for . . . more
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July 01, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
My Fellow Americans,
We are all so played against each other by sophisticated political machinery. "Divide and Conquer" still appears to be working, and it richly rewards those who operate . . . more
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May 17, 2008 05:43 AM EDT --
More thought and history I also feel should be given the learning of the history of the way the religions we follow were developed by the people of this earth and why we all believe the way we do.
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November 20, 2007 11:13 AM EST --
I have free speech and free thought and I prefer to do and to say what I feel is correct.
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July 03, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
The Ethics of Eating
I like to say that I'm not an an optimist, but I am a person of hope. That is to say, I cultivate the virtue of hope in myself. Hope takes account of the enormity and darkness . . . more
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June 21, 2008 09:31 AM EDT --
A religion really needs an identity and a reason to exist.
The Shakers for example were a Christian sect that believed it was wrong to have sex. That belief gave them an identity and a religious belief . . . more
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June 09, 2008 11:00 PM EDT --
My name is Michael, and the meaning of my name in Hebrew is actually a question: "Who is like God?"
How can anyone even attempt an answer? To do so would be to say that one understands . . . more
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July 01, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
After the September 11 terrorist attacks the reaction of our government was one of arrogance, ignorance and fear. Everyone, myself included, was subjected to intense domestic terror and manipulated by . . . more
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August 03, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
If we have an archive of Speaking of Faith "classic" programs, this is one of them. It is quite unlike anything else we've done, but we have broadcast it every winter for the past few years. . . . more
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May 22, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
The Spirituality of Addiction and Recovery
In 1961, the renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote a now-famous letter to Bill Wilson , the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), describing . . . more
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September 30, 2007 01:56 AM EDT --
The Centers for Disease Control report that 1 in 150 children in the U.S. is now diagnosed somewhere on the spectrum of autism. In other words, this is a condition that affects many lives, many families. . . . more
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March 17, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
Liberating the Founders
I've enjoyed Steven Waldman as a journalist and commentator through the last two election seasons because he refused to tolerate or perpetuate the culture wars that embittered . . . more
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November 28, 2007 06:23 AM EST --
The changes to the Religion that Osama Bin Laden wanted to see in the US never happened. The US is past that time frame of history and will move on.
Yes it will not happen quickly, however, it will . . . more
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May 04, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
Up to now I have resisted interviewing Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins, who have coined best-selling battle cries like "the end of faith" and "the God delusion." They validly critique . . . more
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September 23, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. We've come to imagine him as a godless naturalist and to see the publication of this book as a dramatic moment in history, one that created an . . . more
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December 13, 2007 06:54 AM EST --
Sometime last year I had in interesting informal conversation with Richard Mouw, the president of Fuller Theological Seminary, a respected center of Evangelical scholarship and learning. Mouw has spoken . . . more
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October 20, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
Twenty-five years after The Secular City , Harvey Cox wrote some lines that help me frame what I hope to accomplish with my program "Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divide," and how I want to . . . more
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