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Religion Dispatches The first lesbian Episcopal bishop tells us that so far the response to her election has been "positive and joyful." But schism looms...
Election of New Lesbian Bishop Reveals Tensions in Anglican World | Sexuality & Gender | ReligionDis
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Conservative Episcopalians have denounced the election of only the second openly-gay bishop and the Archbishop of Canterbury has urged bishops to not seat her. But others, like one of the first women priests, aren't worried about the well loved bishop-elect who remains focused on her duties.
Religion Dispatches Sex, the Body, the World: It's R. Crumb's Bible Now...
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Naomi Seidman is Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of translation, University of Chicago, 2006.
Religion Dispatches The Atlanta Falcons “fought, harassed, stuffed, smothered, and smacked” their way to victory last week. What is it about football that brings out such primal intensity in its fans?
Atlanta Falcons "Defend the Dome": Football, Religion, and Existential Power | Media/Culture | Relig
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Kenny Smith is a student in the MA program in Religious Studies at Georgia State University. His ethnographic study of the successful integration of a Wiccan coven into a suburban community was published in 2008 by the journal Nova Religio.
Religion Dispatches We in the US have a deep cultural affection for toughness, and we have "gendered" it, called it "manly." Is this why a monk could never be president?
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Ryan Croken is a freelance writer and editor based in Chicago. His work appears in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and on Truthout, Word Riot, and nthposition.
Religion Dispatches What do Ann Hutchinson, Cesar Chavez, and Thurgood Marshall have in common? They might be erased from the social studies curriculum in Texas...and where Texas goes, so goes the rest of the country.
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Lauri Lebo has been a journalist for twenty years. As part of an investigative reporting team, she helped solve two civil rights-era murders. As the York Daily Record’s education reporter, she covered intelligent design’s First Amendment battle. ...
Religion Dispatches Does the word "God" mean anything? Or does it mean so many things that it can no longer be defined...?
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Gary Laderman is co-editor and co-director of Religion Dispatches and Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Religion at Emory University. Order his new book, Sacred Matters (The New Press, May 12, 2009), here.
Religion Dispatches Remember the Terri Schiavo case? The opponents of health care reform do...and they're using it in ways that defy logic.
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Opponents of health care reform have raised the spectre of Terri Schiavo to mobilize "pro-life" activists and the elderly, but what they forget is that this case was a powerful instance of an unpopular government intervention in a family matter. They can't have it both ways.
Religion Dispatches How a life-size silicon woman, a realistic baby doll, or a giant pillow, can be understood as ritual objects. What a topic for a religious studies course!
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S. Brent Plate is visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College. His column, Pop-eye, appears occasionally in Religion Dispatches. His recent books include Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World; Blasphemy: Art that Offends. ...
Religion Dispatches Ex-Evangelical organizer says that as far as he can tell, the Republicans opposing Health Care have lost their minds.
Lies, Intimidation, and the Insurance Industry: The Republicans Have Lost Their Minds | RD Blog: The
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Frank Schaeffer is a writer. He is author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back and of the forthcoming Patience With God: Faith For People Who Don't Like Religion (Or Atheism).
Religion Dispatches The brand-new Acropolis Museum, designed to showcase the Elgin marbles, has instead a few other things to offer — among them, views of other museumgoers from beneath...
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Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is William M. Suttles Chair of Religious Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. The author of six books, his two most recent are: God Gardened East: A Gardener’s Meditation ...