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Clean Enough for Yuppies to Drink: Deepa Mehta Filters Ganges Water — William Elison
Long before its U.S. release this spring, Water, Deepa Mehta's movie about Hindu widows living in seclusion on the banks of the Ganges, had already become a cause célèbre. Mehta is based in Canada, and her films, which rely on international financing...
June 15, 2006
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Christianity in Canada — Martin E. Marty
The DEW (Distant Early Warning) signal of Cold War days may have a religious successor, which we in the U.S. will notice as the Canadian border becomes newly relevant. For context: I call the global area west of Poland, across western Europe and thro...
June 12, 2006
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Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer: Religion and Faith on Battlestar Galactica
The Sci-Fi Channel's blockbuster show Battlestar Galactica has received heaps of praise from virtually all quarters. The show centers on the conflict in a faraway galaxy between humans and Cylons, a race of artificial, and often humanoid, beings firs...
June 8, 2006
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Pro-Life Progressivism — Martin E. Marty
"Pro-Life Progressivism" must sound as oxymoronic to some citizens as "Pro-Choice Conservatism" must sound to others. That's the fix we're in, and have been, since 1973, after Roe v. Wade, when defining groups often found it feasible to organize peop...
June 5, 2006
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Intelligent Watches — Richard A. Rosengarten
While Cardinal Schoenborn and the Roman Catholic Church's astronomer have officially indicated that it is possible to accept the science of evolution while remaining in good standing with the Church, the idea of intelligent design persists in at leas...
June 1, 2006
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Surveying Seminarians — Martin E. Marty
Over 200 Sightingses ago (January 7, 2002), I quoted the late Edward H. Levi, who, when he was president of the University of Chicago, told me, after I asked about the subject: "The profession of ministry is too important in our culture and society f...
May 29, 2006
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Julia Sweeney Says 'Ha!' — Matthew Baldwin
Many people remember Julia Sweeney as a performer on "Saturday Night Live," where she became famous playing an ambiguously gendered office dweeb named "Pat." But, burned out on improv, in 1994 Sweeney quit SNL and moved from New York back to Los Ange...
May 25, 2006
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The Trouble with Patrick Henry College — Martin E. Marty
"If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe." (That's G. K. Chesterton, of course.) I...
May 22, 2006
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Yoga and Fundamentalist Christianity — Monica Byrne
Laurette Willis lives with her husband on a beautiful ranch in the Ozark foothills of northeastern Oklahoma. A self-identified fundamentalist Christian, she believes in salvation by grace, accepting Jesus as her personal Savior, and the infallibility...
May 18, 2006
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Chaplains in the War Zone — Martin E. Marty
During the next few years, as the war drags on in Iraq, there will be plenty of time to think through religious and ethical issues that do not follow quite the same track as that of the original just/unjust war debates. (Notice that few of the contro...