According to this story in the online zine, Salon (Religious primates), religion is a meme — “an idea that evolved like a virus — that infected our ancestors and continued to spread throughout cultures.” Give it a quarter turn, and another […]

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Western Wall - Kotel - Jerusalem, Old City - 360° | Originally uploaded by Sam Rohn - Location Scout.

Forget that line from Joan Osborne’s ‘What If God Was One of Us‘ about “nobody […]

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Here’s our stance: we like a parade, any parade. Not so Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, a religious conservative who says he will never sanction a gay pride parade in Moscow.

“Last year, Moscow came under unprecedented pressure to sanction the gay parade, which can be described […]

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Pope Benedict XVI marked the feast day of Catholic scholar St. Thomas Aquinas Sunday by decrying the rupture between faith and reason.

“When Christian faith is authentic it […]

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 Cat Stevens says music biz filled with ‘fornication, intoxicants, idolatry, competition, greed, selfishness’ [BeliefNet]
· Church of England to offer masses set to U2 [The Daily Telegraph]
· French seek to kick religion out of hospitals [IHT]

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Work, of course, is more than just a way to make a living. It’s one of the most spiritual things we do, whether it’s meditatively mopping the floors, caring for the sick, or… well, you get the point. Which is why discussions of how we work can be about so much more than work. Just […]

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Paul in San Francisco

People often talk about the “body-rush” they feel after doing pilates, and I experienced a long-lasting wave of that after a class this weekend.

There was this swirl of energy and aliveness in my body, and elation in the mind. It […]

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