Apologetics
Mormons, Romney and People of Color
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 5/31/2012 The Wrong Side of White — W. Paul Reeve The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) has consistently found itself on the wrong side of white. In a recent New York Times article, “Black Mormons and […]
Political philosophy: What Money Can’t Buy
Michael Sandel: ‘We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning’ Sunday 27 May 2012 The political philosophy professor on his new book, What Money Can’t Buy, and why economics needs to be seen not as a science but a moral philosophy Something curious happened when I tried to […]
The (Eight) Varieties of Biblical Marriage
April 29, 2009 by Vorjack We hear a lot about “biblical marriage†these days. Some of us might not be clear on what that means. The website Religious Tolerance has provided a helpful article on the types of marriage found in the pages of the bible. Here’s a summary: Polygynous Marriage Probably the most common […]
HOMOSEXUALITY FOR DUMMIES: by a 21-year-old!
The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality Twitter: @VinesMatthew / Facebook: matthew.vines. Alright, I’d just like to start by saying thank you to everybody for coming tonight – I really appreciate it – and for being interested in learning more about this subject. I also want to thank College Hill United Methodist for graciously agreeing […]
Man discovers he’s actually a woman
Daily Mail May 25, 2012 A MAN who went to hospital with a kidney stone was stunned when a nurse gave him his results – and revealed that he was actually a woman. Steve Crecelius, a photographer from Denver, Colorado, was born with both male and female traits and had long repressed his feminine […]
Israel: whose perspective?
Facebook friends’  responses: *  The hard thing to understand is what happened to all the rest of the chart, the bit with “Irgun Zwei Leumi” and “Stern Gang” and “Drive Palestinians into desert”. It goes above that part of the chart. I had a friend at school who carried his only photo of his […]
Is Australia meeting its foreign aid commitment?
May 22, 2012 Professor Peter Singer CANBERRA’S decision to strip foreign aid by $2.9 billion over the next three years prompted an outcry from aid agencies this month. The government denies it is balancing its books at the expense of the world’s poor, but one of the nation’s most influential public intellectuals, University of Melbourne […]
Whites now in the Minority in the U.S.
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 5/21/2012 Whites in the Minority — Martin E. Marty On May 17 the New York Time’s headline read “Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.; Tipping Point Reached; Implications for Politics, the Economy and a Nation’s […]
The burqa and the new religious intolerance
Note: We do our best to screen out inappropriate Google ads. But they provide our only source of income for this site. Your patience with us/Google is appreciated! Martha NussbaumABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 22 MAY 2012 THE CURRENT CLIMATE OF FEAR AND SUSPICION, DIRECTED PRIMARILY AGAINST MUSLIMS, THREATENS TO DERAIL OUR DEEPEST PHILOSOPHICAL COMMITMENTS […]
Marriage Equality & Why Being Gay Does Not Exclude Us from God
A little warning: sometimes the ads which appear above our articles are, to say the least, suggestive. We do our best to cleanse our website of these: but they are our only source of income.  Thanks for your understanding! Gays Getting Married – The Audacity Dr Stuart Edser PhD. MAPS.MASCH. (Author of Being Gay […]
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