There is a general misconception that men among the community look to plural marriage as a means to satisfy their lust and exploit and degrade women. It is this stereotype that we would like to dispel.
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Click through the slideshow to see artistic depictions of the Pentecost Pentecost, the Greek word for ‘Shavout’ is an ancient feast in Israel that celebrates…
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Click through the slideshow to see artistic depictions of the Pentecost Pentecost, the Greek word for ‘Shavout’ is an ancient feast in Israel that celebrates…
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Buddha-killer and regular contributor Greg Bottoms has a new book out! It is a collection of eight biographical essays on 20th-century religious self-taught artists called Spiritual American Trash: Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith (Counterpoint). It’s filled with his trademark poetic prose and insights on spirituality, creativity, suffering, and art-as-survival, and several of [...]
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Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, delivered the commencement address at Smith College Sunday, where she dared the graduates of the all-female…
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By John Blake, CNN “God, help me!” Eben Alexander shouted and flailed as hospital orderlies tried to hold him in place. But no one could stop his violent seizures, and the 54-year-old neurosurgeon went limp as his horrified wife looked on. That moment could have been the end. But Alexander says it was just the […]
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Magda Hornemann (“Forum 18 News Service,” May 15, 2013)
Only state-approved religious groups affiliated with China’s five state-backed monopoly faiths are allowed to apply to set up educational institutions for the study of their faith or training of clergy, Forum 18 News Service notes. State regulations and practices determine how many and how big such institutions can be and what they can and cannot teach.
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(AP, May 18, 2013)
Beirut – A wave of tit-for-tat kidnappings between rival Islamic militant groups in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo risks sparking large-scale internal fighting between rebels after clashes killed at least four militants earlier t…
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(“The Daily Beast,” May 18, 2013)
Rama Burshtein, the director of Fill the Void—a new film about the complex world of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish women—only found religion herself two decades ago. Burshtein, now 45, was born into a secular Jewish family in New York; she’s now a practicing Orthodox in Tel Aviv.
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James. F. McCarty (“The Plain Dealer,” May 17, 2013)
The federal Bureau of Prisons is forcing some imprisoned members of an Ohio Amish community to study for high school equivalency certificates in violation of their First Amendment rights, a lawyer for the sect contends.
Lawyer Edward Bryan, who represents imprisoned Amish bishop Samuel Mullet, said Friday he intends to write a letter of protest to prison officials cite a U.S.
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Dudley Althaus (“Global Post,” May 16, 2013)
Mexico City, Mexico — Many Roman Catholics believe their church’s future may well hinge on the ability of Pope Francis, an Argentine barely two months into his reign, to revive the faith in Latin America.
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Michael Gryboski (“The Christian Post,” May 16, 2013)
An Anglican congregation in Virginia that recently lost a property suit against The Episcopal Church is asking for a rehearing before the state Supreme Court.
George Ward, senior warden of the vestry of The Falls Church Anglican, told The Christian Post that the congregation will submit a petition that may be heard by the Court.
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Kate Brumback & Russ Bynum (AP, May 16, 2013)
Atlanta — When Ed Buckner and his family went to a north Georgia state park to celebrate his son’s birthday, he was surprised and concerned to find Bibles in the state-owned cabin he had rented.
An a…
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Max Fisher (“The Washington Post,” May 16, 2013)
Life can get complicated in Xinjiang, the far-western Chinese province perhaps best known as the home of ethnic Uighurs, who are majority Muslim. As in neighboring Tibet, Beijing restricts traditional religious practice there and keeps the province largely shut off from the outside world.
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Niraj Warikoo (“USA Today,” May 16, 2013)
Detroit — Speaking to about 250 religious and community leaders here Thursday, minister Louis Farrakhan urged unity among African Americans and called on them to buy up property in Detroit.
“We don’t have a lot of money,” Farrakhan said of African Americans. “But we have about 500,000 to 600,000 blacks” still in Detroit.
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