World Religions

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Parsing pagans properly

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Tom Breen is an extraordinarily good newsman in the Associated Press’ Charleston, West Virginia, bureau. He manages to write compelling national stories by focusing on local trends and events. I’ve been reading his coverage of the sad case of a 20-year-old black woman who was raped and tortured. Six white individuals have been charged in the crime. Terry highlighted his story this past summer about small-town churches struggling to keep their doors open. His thoughtful comments have enlightened many discussions here at GetReligion, too.


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Wicca in the heartland

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The Chicago Tribune had a potentially tremendous story to tell Sunday about a witch school setting up shop in Rossville, Ill., a small, economically struggling town in the heartland. The perspective of the story — about Wiccans trying to fit into a Bible Belt community — is what first jumped out at me.


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Mouw underlines a non-negotiable point

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The other day, I raised a question or two — as I tend to do — about a Los Angeles Times story on an interfaith gathering of scholars to address scriptures that appear to “assert the superiority of one belief system over others.”


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'If you won't kill her, we will'

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The news in the Newsweek cover story about the chaos that is Pakistan is that it does not add more confusion (or much more) about the whole “moderate” Muslim mystery. In fact, there isn’t much content on the progressive side of Islam at all — which I guess tells us quite a bit about the state of things in what the newsweekly calls the “most dangerous nation” on earth.


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Ghost in the Amish van tragedy?

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Remember that tragic accident on an Indiana interstate that killed four Christian college students and a university employee? On Sunday, about 20 miles from that spot on that same stretch of interstate, another tragic car accident took the lives of five people traveling in yet another 15-passenger van.


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Punching my 'moderate' button again

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I hit the wall on something this past weekend. But before I vent a bit, let’s flash back to one of the most candid and insightful statements in the New York Times self-study document (PDF) from a few years ago.


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