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West meets East in John Cleese

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Don Lattin of the San Francisco Chronicle must be the envy of every religion writer who loves the comedy of John Cleese. Lattin nabbed an interview with the Monty Python veteran before Cleese made a series of Bay Area fundraising appearances for Esalen, the Big Sur-based institute known for spreading Eastern thought in the West.


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Evangelicals vs. Religious Right

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Still catching up with recent magazine stuff as we get this blog rolling. There was an interesting point recently in the Weekly Standard about religious terms and definitions and labels. This is important, because we are about to enter into another hurricane of election-year speculation on the power or lack thereof of the Religious Right. Right?


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Shut up & fly the plane

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Most media were fairly restrained in covering the weekend’s news that an American Airlines pilot asked Christians to raise their hands and share their faith during a flight from Los Angeles to New York — but some headline-writers had fun with it: “Coffee, Tea or Jesus?” (CBSNews.com), “God only knows what this pilot was thinking” (The Winnipeg Sun) and the inevitable “On a wing — and a Prayer” (Herald Sun, Australia).


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