Via the New York Times, a fine article by
John. F. Burns:

LONDON — The governing body of the Anglican Church in Britain voted on Monday to approve the appointment of women as bishops, a step that appeared to risk a schism in the church in its historic homeland as the Anglican church worldwide faces one […]

To: Obama, Clinton, Huckabee, Giuliani, Edwards, Romney, and all the other candidates. For the last several presidential elections I have wondered something. Now, I’m going to ask:
Every presidential election cycle those of you running for office talk about tax relief. You talk about improving the living standards of Americans. And so it is again this […]

I received this email yesterday from my web host and thought I’d pass it on in lieu of the next installment of analysis on the Lilla essay. Metaphors For Life is a proud Draknet affiliate and this announcement gives us yet another reason to feel really good about where our site is hosted.
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In this next section on the essay adapted from “The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West,” by Professor Mark Lilla of Columbia University, we examine the impulses that separated man from God, and secular politics from religion.
Section II: The Great Separation.
For those who study the evolution of human consciousness, this could as […]

“The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West,” by Professor Mark Lilla of Coilumbia University is to be published next month but the points he raises therein should have been in mainstream consciousness years ago.
The essay from yesterday’s New York Times begins with “The twilight of the idols has been postponed.” That in itself […]

According to this report from Reuters today, “Health insurance premiums will cost families and employers an extra $922 on average this year to cover the costs of caring for the uninsured.”
How does this happen, you may be asking? Well, it’s what is otherwise known as a “vicious circle”: The costs of traditional medical care […]

Haven’t had a lot of time for this blog of late, but I did spy something today that I wanted to relay to anyone reading along.
Hat tip to The LA Times’ Religion section.
A lively debate over the Dead Sea Scrolls
As the ancient documents are readied for a San Diego exhibition, scholars clash over just who […]

Conservative Islamic family values, workplace ethics, and a fatwah only an academic could love.
After reading a story like today’s, I’m often left wondering if conservative religious leaders don’t get headaches from trying to find plausible work-arounds for the difficulties their repressive edicts cause. How can any society function when its moral leadership assumes that adult […]

Or, how in the Mauldin case, there’s actually more than enough blame to go around.
I read this article on the Joshua Mauldin case this morning and was dumbfounded. Not because this stuff doesn’t happen all the time — it does, unfortunately. Not because I didn’t believe any of it could happen — of course it […]

Or, how modern colleges and universities are finding ways to integrate interfaith dialogues into a post-modern curriculum.
Last November, the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA played host to “faculty, staff and administrators from 10 colleges and universities across the country” who gathered to discuss and develop their ideas about the integration of spirituality and […]