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Massachusetts Bible Society Life in Jerusalem's City of Three Faiths - BBC
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Jerusalem's Old City is a district containing a number of holy sites venerated by Muslims, Christians and Jews. The BBC's Heather Sharp, who moved into a home within its walls last year, reports on daily life in a dense tangle of narrow, winding alleyways.
Massachusetts Bible Society 8 Ways to Green Your Thanksgiving Celebration - Huffington Post
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Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, 5 million extra tons of trash are created each week. It's easy to reduce your contribution to all that waste by greening your Thanksgiving.
Massachusetts Bible Society Movie Review - The Road - Father and Son Bond in Gloomy Aftermath of Disaster - The New York Times
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Bang or whimper? Fire or ice? Happily, holiday moviegoers interested in pondering the end of the world can select scenarios far more elaborate than those simple, traditional choices.
Massachusetts Bible Society A Moveable Fast - Elyssa East - Oped The New York Times
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The Thanksgiving holiday has come to mirror our transformation into a nation of gross overconsumption, but it wasn’t intended to be a day of gluttony.
Massachusetts Bible Society 3 Clergyment Tell How Differences of Faith Led to Friendship - The New York Times
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A rabbi, a Protestant minister and a Muslim sheik take their experiences in interfaith understanding on the road.
Massachusetts Bible Society Fort Hood Shotting Investigation Bringing Unwanted Attention to Texas Mosque - On Faith Washington Post
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KILLEEN, TEX. -- FBI agents in blue gloves recently converged on a single-story brick mosque on the rural outskirts of town here and pillaged through the giant green trash bin outside in search of evidence. Texas Rangers and news reporters have been an almost constant neighborhood presence, ques...
Massachusetts Bible Society Discussion: Holidays or holy days?: On Faith Washington Post
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What do you think of the American Humanist Association's new "Godless Holiday" campaign? The ads, displayed on transit systems in five major U.S. cities, will say: "No God? . . . No Problem! Be good for goodness' sake. ...
Massachusetts Bible Society Kennedy dispute reveals a Catholic divide - msnbc
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A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth of the divide among Catholics.
Massachusetts Bible Society Recommended Book of the Day - In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic - by Peter Berger & Anton Zijderveld
In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic | Massachusetts Bible Society
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Modernity was supposed to usher in a rational secular world where religion was marginalized. Some even predicted it would disappear. But religion has not only survived—it is growing and thriving in the modern world. ...
Massachusetts Bible Society Claude Levi-Strauss: Meeting the Myth - Religion Dispatches
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Chad Seales is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University. He earned his PhD in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His areas of research include Religion in the American South and Religion and Industry.
Massachusetts Bible Society Resisting the 'New Normal' of Parasitic Capitalism in the Two Americas: The Religious Imperative - Religion Dispatches
Resisting the “New Normal” of Parasitic Capitalism in the Two Americas: The Religious Imperative | P
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Peter Laarman is executive director of Progressive Christians Uniting, a network of activist individuals and congregations headquartered in Los Angeles. He served as the senior minister of New York’s Judson Memorial Church from 1994 to 2004. ...
Massachusetts Bible Society Book Review - 'Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter With the Gospels' - The New York Times
Book Review - 'Reading Jesus - A Writer’s Encounter With the Gospels,' by Mary Gordon - Review - NYT
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Questions for, quibbles with and tributes to the sometimes inscrutable protagonist of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Massachusetts Bible Society The Church and the Capital - The New York Times
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Washington lawmakers should negotiate the language of a same-sex marriage bill with the Catholic archdiocese without selling out same-sex couples.
Massachusetts Bible Society Hopes Grow as Israel & Hamas Discuss Prisoner Swap - The New York Times
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Meetings and statements have heightened anticipation that Israel and Hamas could swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for the Israeli solider Gilad Shalit.
