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Blessed Are the Hungry? Not So Much
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swaldman
Food pantries are struggling. Food prices are up, donations are down, and need is growing. (Examples: Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Oregon, North Carolina, Florida, to name a few.) Charity navigators lists the best food pantries by location and rating.
Gay Marriage — A Debate WITHIN Christianity
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swaldman
A reader at Andrew Sullivan’s blog makes this point: I am another gay man who has no problem with a church refusing to conduct a same-gender marriage rite. What I don’t understand is why the conservatives/fundamentalists can’t get it through their collective skull that their insistence upon enforcing in civil law their particular interpretation of…
I Smite Thee! Your Turn
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swaldman
Cathy Grossman at USAToday found a new satirical new game mocking religious zealots: “Playing Gods: The Board Game of Divine Domination.” Some sample cards you might select: A sunny yellow conversion card recalls Elijah’s showdown with a priest of Baal in the Bible (1 Kings 18:38). “Another god’s follower challenges you to prove you exist;…
Note from Beliefnet About Commenting
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Dear Readers, Last week at Beliefnet we implemented a small change to our blog commenting system – you now have to confirm that you are a real person, and not a spammer, by typing in a few characters of text upon submitting your comments. This change was necessary in order to curtail the amount of…
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