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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Muppets and grieving families
GRIEF: Katie Couric and the Muppets of “Seasame Street” in a new special, “When Families Grieve,” about coping with the loss of a parent.
Posted in Death and Immortality, Grief, PHIL 500, Religion Blog
Tagged Katie Couric, Seasame Street
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Grief and goodbyes
Two photos of a brother saying goodbye.
Posted in Death and Immortality, Funerals, Grief
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Assault by baptism
Poor girl. [a] man who claims he returned to his Catholic roots after divorcing a Jewish woman was granted permission to take his 3-year-old daughter to Catholic church, despite his ex-wife’s wishes.Joseph Reyes, who baptized his 3-year-old daughter without her … Continue reading
Posted in Conversions, Judaism, Religion Blog, Religious Belief
Tagged Catholic church, Joseph Reyes, restraining order
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What makes this Torah different from others?
Eerily reminiscent of an episode from Law and Order but without the murder. One Torah, said to have been in Auschwitz, has been in the ark at one of New York’s most prominent synagogues since 2008. A second Torah joined … Continue reading
A discussion of Christianist militia groups
I’m not up on my contemporary American eschatology, but some of the comments here pinpointed some rather nuanced, for me, distinctions. The most startling comment was by Prof. Butler from Univ. of Pennsylvania when she made the distinction between merely … Continue reading
Posted in Church and State, Politics, Religion Blog, Violence
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