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• The Fate of Global Jihad a Decade After September 11th

  

  Photo courtesy of iStockphoto. Photo credit: Lowell Gordon Photography This Sunday it will have been ten years since Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network... Read more

  The 10 September 2011 by   Realizingresonance
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• No Bull: The Mithras Cult & Christianity

  

  In his 1880 Hibbert Lecture on the history of early Christianity, Ernest Renan commented: “I sometimes permit myself to say that, if Christianity had not carrie... Read more

  The 05 September 2011 by   Cris
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• On Becoming an Encourager…

  

  My friend and childhood pastor, Dick Hester recently sent me this challenge, and I wanted to share it here. I’m not nearly the encourager that I wish I was, or... Read more

  The 05 September 2011 by   Caryschmidt
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• Nuns Having Fun

  

  image credit Nuns are only human and as such they deserve a little time out to kick back and relax. Here discover, through some amazing photographs, the... Read more

  The 01 September 2011 by   Gerard
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• A Thief With Principles

  

  You may have seen this. My son found it and passed it along to me. It’s a true story that makes for a humorous but powerful illustration of how the human heart... Read more

  The 31 August 2011 by   Caryschmidt
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• The Zoroastrian Ethic & Spirit of Modernity

  

  In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), Max Weber sought to correct or temper Karl Marx’s view that religion was always a reflection or... Read more

  The 27 August 2011 by   Cris
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• Spiritual Leadership Downloads 2011!

  

  Spiritual Leadership Conference 2011 was held last month. I’m late in posting this information, but wanted to share it none-the-less. It is our desire to share... Read more

  The 26 August 2011 by   Caryschmidt
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• Visions of Ruth Benedict

  

  When it comes to classic anthropology, Margaret Mead may garner the lionesses’ share of attention but Ruth Benedict remains the matriarch. Although Benedict... Read more

  The 25 August 2011 by   Cris
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• Chinese Religion Redux

  

  As Cold War propaganda in the West would have it, communist states were to be despised because they were atheist and Godless. The reality, however, was quite... Read more

  The 23 August 2011 by   Cris
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• Star of Davida Interviews Susannah Heschel

  

  As someone who wants to pursue a PhD and hopes to teach feminist theory during her retirement, I greatly respect women and men who teach at the university level... Read more

  The 23 August 2011 by   Starofdavida
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