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Tom Cruise Launches Official Website
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Kris Rasmussen
Talk about getting in late on a hot trend. Celebrities from George Clooney to Rosie O’Donnell have had their own websites or blogs for a long time now, but Tom Cruise has only just this past week launched his own offficial website under the guise of celebrating his 25 years in filmmaking. Cruise has wisely…
Dancing for Abstinence? Purity Balls and Party Dresses
By
Donna Freitas
I don’t know how I, watcher for all-things Christian chastity culture-related, missed this big New York Times feature, “Dancing the Night Away, With a Higher Purpose,” by Neela Banerjee, from last week about the growing popularity of the Purity Ball. A Purity Ball, writes Banerjee, is a formal dance where “men st[and] and read aloud…
Chaste Buddhist Intimacy at Home?
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Donna Freitas
The New York Times Home section runs every Thursday and occasionally they run a “Living Together” column. This week’s is more of a human (and spiritual) interest story than a story about interior design. In “Making Their Own Limits in a Spiritual Partnership,” Leslie Kaufman explores the living arrangements of “Michael Roach and Christie McNally,…
A House That Wards Off Death
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Paul O'Donnell
The New York Times House & Home section yesterday took an oddly spiritual leap with a feature about a house they bill as “death-defying.” The house, being built for a mysterious set of owners in the Hamptons, on Long Island, is indeed worthy of a circus acrobat: the concrete floors are wildly uneven, climbing halfway…
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