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Category: Religion
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by Peter Laarman There was never any question that religion would play a huge role in the electoral pageant now fully unfolding as those frozen Iowans at last begin to caucus. After everyone saw how the well-organized voting faithful on the Right gave Bush his margin of “victory” 2004, the Democrats vowed (and here I…
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by Rev. C. Welton Gaddy As a Baptist minister and as a patriotic American, I’m deeply disturbed—although no longer surprised—by the inappropriate use of religion as a political tactic in presidential campaigns. I’m particularly disheartened by former Gov. Mike Huckabee comparing his sudden rise in the polls and his new frontrunner status in Iowa to…
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by Suzanne Strempek Shea This time last year, I was headed to Bethlehem Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that is. As part of a year I spent worshipping at a different Protestant church each Sunday to research my book, Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith, Bethlehem seemed the perfect choice for a…
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by Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur As millions of Muslims around the world converge on Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj, I want to share with you the story of millions of women in Mali, babies in tow, who recently made their own hajj. Muslims go on Hajj to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to save and purify their souls…
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by Frederick S. Lane Forty or so years ago, a U.S. Senator from Vermont by the name of George Aiken wisely advised both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon that the United States should simply declare victory in Vietnam and bring its troops home. Unfortunately, neither listened to him. His advice, sadly, is still relevant. When…
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by C. Welton Gaddy Mitt Romney’s speech on Faith in America was both encouraging and disappointing. I appreciate the tone of his speech and the fact that he seriously addressed the issue of religious liberty. I commend him for clearly stating that religious tolerance is not reserved only for faiths with which we agree and…
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by Frederick S. Lane Last week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney traveled to College Station, Texas, to deliver a major address on faith to an audience at the George H.W. Bush presidential library. Given the fact that the speech was so clearly an attempt to emulate President John F. Kennedy’s famous speech on faith forty-seven…
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by Ilana Kurshan On the first night of Chanukah, I was in a coffee shop when the candles were lit; on the second night, I was in Ace hardware, awaiting the movers who would pick up my new bookcases and bring them to my home. I don’t know anywhere else in the world in which…
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by Stephen Burt You can find Adrienne Rich in anthologies of Jewish American poetry, but most of her many admirers do not think of her first (if at all) as a Jewish poet: they think of her as a feminist poet, as a political poet, as a GLBT activist, as a talented artificer in traditional…
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by Danya Ruttenberg I was asked to write a few words in honor of Jewish Book Month, which takes the Jewish world by storm every November. It’s a wonderful celebration of the written word and a reaffirmation that the People of the Book know how to push limits, challenge, surprise, teach, and delight us anew…
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