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Faith-based Initiatives

Faith-based Initiatives

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Spirituality can be a harmonizing, liberating, life-giving force for understanding, compassion, and wisdom, or it can be a tool for manipulation, control, oppression and greed. When “religion” is used to increase cruelty, hate and exploitation, it is in fact profoundly anti-religious and should be exposed as such. The use of religion to justify or promote harmful behavior and heinous crimes against other human beings is, I think, a profound misunderstanding of the nature of faith. The faithful, to be faithful,…

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Quotations of the Day

Quotations of the Day

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Different statements resonate at different times. These shimmered today. A person has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it, and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. — D.H. Lawrence It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life,…

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Ralph Reed in GA? No way

Ralph Reed in GA? No way

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Amazing. Ralph Reed, former Director of the (contra-)Christian Coalition, is still running for Lt. Governor of Georgia. Before you even think about voting for him, consider this information from Think Progress: TIGUA CASINO — CORNYN PART OF ABRAMOFF, REED, SCANLON SCHEME TO CLOSE TIGUA CASINO: Abramoff, Scanlon, and Reed (”an avowed foe of gambling”) secretly helped then Texas Attorney General Cornyn shut down the Tigua tribe’s Texas casino. They then exploited “the financial crisis they were helping to create for…

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Reproductive Regression

Reproductive Regression

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Here’s where we go with right-wing policies on reproductive rights. We’re already seeing results …. Jen (not her real name) is administrator of a women’s health clinic in the South that provides abortions. She has noted with alarm the recent rise in illegal abortion in her community. For some of the women she sees—after their initial attempts at abortion fail—whether Roe v. Wade is technically still the law of the land is beside the point. The combination of the procedure’s…

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Progressive Faith Bloggers

Progressive Faith Bloggers

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Faith and politics have the capacity to profoundly divide, or to profoundly connect. Progressive Faith BlogCon is a chance for progressive bloggers of faith to meet one another, talk with one another, and learn from one another. A full-fledged conference is in the planning stages. Meanwhile, join in at the weekly carnival. This week, the carnival is hosted at Roc Rebel Granny’s place. Join up and participate in the next carnival at Think Buddha. (Thanks to ExPatriated Texan for the…

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Former JW Book

Former JW Book

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My online ex-JW friend Brenda Lee recently published a book titled ‘Out of the Cocoon: A Woman’s Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult.’ She was recently featured on the front page of her hometown newspaper. ‘What I’m trying to convey with my title is that it’s a toxic organization,’ she said. ‘It punishes people within and without.’ Lee, who hasn’t spoken to her family in 25 years, says the organization forced them to disown her and punishes…

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