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Leonardo Boff and Robert McClory on Pope Francis as Franciscan Reformer and...

More from Leonardo Boff on the parallels between Pope Francis and Francis of Assisi, at Boff's blog site: Boff thinks that, to understand what Pope Francis is... Read more

The 05 April 2013 by William Lindsey
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Women of the Wall, Supreme Court, Disturbing the Peace, Har HaBayit

I came across this interview from 2 months ago that Anat Hoffman gave to the BBC after having been detained at one of the Women of the Wall prayer sessions at... Read more

The 12 April 2013 by Gldmeier
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Fear of Religion

Two online articles have, in my limited reading, linked the bombing of the Boston Marathon by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to religion. Read more

The 24 April 2013 by Steveawiggins
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Whores and Tax Collectors and a Table Open to All: Adam Gopnik on Jesus's...

I just finished Adam Gopnik's book The Table Comes First (NY: Vintage Books, 2011), and found this observation in the final pages of the book insightful:It isn'... Read more

The 23 April 2013 by William Lindsey
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Habanero Peppers in Israel

Sure enough, I just discovered that they grow Habanero peppers in Israel! The Habanero pepper is one of the hottest peppers in the world. Read more

The 21 April 2013 by Gldmeier
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RR Marett’s “Pre-Animistic Religion”

Over Spring Break, I went diving in the Caribbean dove into the often neglected work of Robert Ranulph Marett (1866-1943), yet another classicist (like James... Read more

The 03 April 2013 by Cris
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In the Wake of Anti-Street Harassment Week

Earlier this month, women and men across the globe commemorated International Anti-Street Harassment Week. Whether it was through tweetchats, webinars,... Read more

The 26 April 2013 by Starofdavida
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The Spiral of Violence: Facing the American Contribution to the Spiral

As Scott Shane reports yesterday for the New York Times, an exhaustive nonpartisan review of the evidence commissioned by the Constitution Project has just... Read more

The 17 April 2013 by William Lindsey
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Catholic Mama Responds to Me: You're Pretending to Be Catholic (and Happy...

And then there's this (this is a footnote to what I just posted):As I was dealing with the excrement that a gang of my fellow Catholics chose to hurl at me at... Read more

The 07 April 2013 by William Lindsey
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Friends of Pope Francis: The Poor Will "Convert Him Completely," the Church...

One of the unexpected gifts of the new pope to the church is this: after having been under a shadow during the last two papacies, after having been attacked... Read more

The 08 April 2013 by William Lindsey
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