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Guest post by Mark Silk, who is filling in for Steven Waldman. Steve has noted that Rick Warren is not on board with Pope Benedict’s recent statement to the effect that AIDS “is a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates…

I’m on vacation from March 19-24. I’m very fortunate to have Mark Silk as guest host. A former religion reporter, Mark has in recent years run the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life at Trinity College — and most recently launched a terrific blog called Spiritual Politics. By the way,…

The debate over Guantanamo usually slides immediately into the moral dilemma of whether it’s permissible to abuse or “torture terrorists.” It’s an important debate but it obscures a basic flaw: many of them weren’t terrorists. The moral contours become a bit different when the question becomes “Is it ok to torture people who aren’t terrorists?”…

AIDS, Pope Benedict XVI told reporters, “is a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems.” It’s an interesting contrast with Rick Warren’s approach. The Saddleback website explains, “We can’t prevent many other diseases that plague mankind, but we know…
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