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Black Lives, Sacred Matters

June 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Religion is always mostly about material bodies.

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Bodies Down, Bible Aloft: A Humanist Take on Scripture and Trump’s Photo Op

June 08, 2020 1 Comment

Anthony B. Pinn I agree that if the Bible is to maintain any relevance, a reading of the Bible against the Bible is required—that is to say a poetic turn that dismantles and deconstructs, that renders uncomfortable those tied to restrictive codes of being and well being.

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Does Transfusion of Convalescent Plasma Make Us Cannibals?

May 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

Manju Lata Prasad But our civilization has evolved since these times and decries all forms of cannibalism.

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Disturbing Deaths and National Disunity

May 18, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman The national body politic is dead, another corpse that, perhaps in this case, doesn’t deserve a public ceremony but instead is rotting publicly before our very eyes.

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Islam and Caring Communities

April 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

Shenila Khoja-Moolji Muslim ethics, however, guide us to build caring communities. A caring community does not leave the labor of care to the few; instead, it shares this labor.

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Sacred American Values in Pandemic Times

April 14, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Where will Americans put their faith in this unprecedented time of crisis?

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You Can’t Theologize a Virus

April 13, 2020 Leave a Comment

Anthony B. Pinn However, theodicy never satisfies in the long term, and its failure is even more graphic as the coronavirus devours life. In fact, theodicy is a dangerous consideration as it disrupts reason and threatens to challenge faith. 

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Mass Death Moments

April 08, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Sadly, human history is full of examples of “mass death,” often tied to war and disease, that are usually pivotal periods for living communities.

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Touching Intimacies

March 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Touching is all of a sudden quite fascinating to me.

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LSD [Flashback]

March 07, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman In other words, experiences with LSD and the publicity surrounding them gave shape and content to modern understandings of spirituality.

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