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Published August 20, 2012 | 
| In the Bible and in many Christian circles, the Holy Spirit is portrayed as a dove, swooping down from heaven, bearing a message from God. But in Celtic Christianity and some progressive circles, the Holy Spirit is a wild goose, one worth chasing not … See all stories on this topic » |
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Published August 6, 2012 | New York Times columnist Ross Douthat's recent essay "Liberal Christianity: Ever changing, ever dwindling" (July 17) makes a valid and historically fundamental point that "not only the sexual revolution, but also consumerism and materialism …
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Published August 6, 2012 | The melding of the three — religion/politics/economics, in the present form obviously isn't working; the nation is in crisis. Logic calls for the unimaginable, a restructuring of this trinity upon which America's culture rests, but that would ask of …
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Published July 24, 2012 | | This week's religion reads online raise some interesting questions: What sort of religion rears its head on a reality show like "The Bachelorette?" Is atheism another kind of faith? And is it reasonable to expect national organizations of religion … See all stories on this topic » |
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Published June 6, 2012 | | By Nancy Haught, The Oregonian Two contemporary musicians will put their own spin on Shavuot, the Jewish celebration of the Torah, in a free program at 7:30 Thursday at the Oregon Jewish Museum. Shavuot, Hebrew for "weeks," follows Passover. See all stories on this topic » |
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Published May 31, 2012 | | "If you watched only The Daily Show, you would nonetheless learn, in time, about Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and a whole spectrum of smaller faiths, a category that I would argue includes atheism. And second, they pay attention to points of … See all stories on this topic » |
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Published May 22, 2012 | | It was opening the restaurant 20 years ago that led them to close it last year, at least according to David Bergen, who, with his wife, Tina, locked the doors of their landmark restaurant in Dundee and left for a month for a Buddhist-themed retreat in … See all stories on this topic » |
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Posted in UncategorizedPublished April 27, 2012 | | "This is how it manifests in most cultures, but that barely touches on religion as articulated by its leading intellectuals: for Christianity, say, philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and George Berkeley. See all stories on this topic » |
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Published April 22, 2012 | By Guest Columnist By Paul Louis Metzger and Kyogen Carlson As an evangelical Christian theologian and a Zen Buddhist priest, we ask religious leaders and politicians to weigh carefully their rhetorically charged claims in this most political of …
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Posted in UncategorizedPublished April 11, 2012 | | The estimable Nancy Haught, who wears the halo of religion writer, notes Sunday's lecture on Islam at the First Unitarian Church by Dr. Tariq Ramadan, a professor at Oxford University — ergo, one smart dude. • The Portland Business Journal has some … See all stories on this topic » |
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