Here’s the deal: Don’t look at this if you are determined to discriminate against gays and lesbians. If you feel comfortable and okay with denying Americans fundamental civil/human rights, don’t click through. Don’t listen to this discussion. Don’t take the risk of learning that you are, indeed, quite wrong.:: Otherwise? Tune in. Watch. Learn. Wow.
Bill [...]

I don’t even know what to begin to say to this…
From our good friends at ReligionNewsBlog:
Islamic Militants in Somalia Murder Christian Leader.

Shahram Shiva muses on the contrasts between what happened 30 years ago in Iran, and what is happening (and not happening) now

I found this quote this morning and it seemed to speak aptly to what I would see as core conservative ideology:
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory
future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
–Robertson Davies

Doesn’t that sound like modern political conservatives? Never look to the future, always seek to [...]

While we here at Metaphors For Life aren’t succumbing to the “dominionist conspiracy theories” about Ms. Palin, we surely have a variety of reason to be concerned about her nomination and acceptance for the second slot on the Republican ticket at this very evening’s convention.

Be careful what you pray for!

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 [...]

Humans, thinking, and consciousness all evolve — and our religion and politics must evolve with it. Time to examine the other side of the “political theology” debate and check in with Rousseau and The Savoyard Vicar.
Section III: The Inner Light.
My favorite quote from this section of Professor Lilla’s essay goes like this:
“There is much we [...]

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 [...]