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Spiritual Surf: Gore split; Sex and City 2 anti-Muslim?; Boomers’ suicide rates

Al Gore back in the game: pick up lines on Twitter; Spiritual lessons from Lost; Facebook access, at a cost
Al and Tipper Gore split not sign of impending Armageddon: Reasons to NOT mourn the "shocking" news
On the lighter side: Al Gore pick up lines on Twitter
Sex and the City 2 anti-Muslim?: "Imperalistic Barbies" adorn [...]

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Spiritual Surf: Right-wing attack on JFK; RC diocese condemns Immigration Law

Mormon Church aids job seekers; Science and religion, it's not oil and water; Chimps and death; Take your exercise outside
Katie Holmes part of right-wing smear on JFK?  New History Channel mini-series concentrates on JFK's sexual antics.
Welcoming the stranger: Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson, Arizona condemns Arizona Immigration law.
Life and death through the eyes [...]

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Spiritual Surf: Zimbabwe’s Jews, remaining young, sororities, Islam, small talk, and Guantanomo Bay doctors

Zimbabwe's modern Jews with ancient roots
Proving that the world is a much smaller place than we thought, and how interconnected we all are, DNA tests have confirmed that a tribe in Zimbabwe has Jewish roots. While the Lemba tribe shares many things in common with Jews (wearing skullcap head coverings, circumcision, avoidance of eating pork), [...]

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A Soul’s Code smackdown: Obama vs. Jesus

On the first anniversary of Obama's inauguration, we decode the rookie president's Jesus myth. A top 10 list of the differences between the two saviors
SOUL'S CODE — Here, we come to the aid of all spell-bound Americans who, with the help of the media and Soul's Code itself, once blurred the lines between Obama and [...]

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In God we trust? A new decade for building trust

MSNBC has a five-year-old running poll asking whether the slogan "In God We Trust" should be removed from American currency. A better question for this new decade is, "which" God do we trust?

BY DAVID RICKEY — You've probably seen the sign over the cash register at a country diner:
In God We Trust - All Others, CASH
That line [...]

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“Rule the hearts of thy servants and the President of the United States”

On this First Day of Advent of Barack Obama's presidency, The Great Litany has a new ring
That it may please thee so to rule the hearts of thy servants, the President of the United States, and all others in authority, that they may do justice, and love mercy, and walk in the ways of truth.
PAUL KAIHLA [...]

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Spiritual Surf: Vatican Realty, Clowns in Space, Kabbalistic Revival, BibleSticks, Obama & Gay Rights

Vatican City: For Sale?
In a recently posted video comedian Sarah Silverman proposed a solution to world hunger: the Pope could sell Vatican City and give the profits to the less fortunate.  Silverman's idea echoes Morris West's fictional Ukranian Pope in Shoes of the Fisherman (1963), who had an uncanny Eastern European resemblance to a later pope, John Paul [...]

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Five Minutes of Heaven; a lifetime in hell

Five Minutes of Heaven; a lifetime in hell

An award-winning movie puts fear under observation, terror under surveillance — and reflects both the faces of hate and compassion

BY DANNY KENNY — In Oliver Hirschbiegel’s “Five Minutes of  Heaven”, characters played by Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt deal with universal themes of reconciliation, revenge and forgiveness, set against the backdrop of the Irish conflict.
Through the [...]

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Dying to find out: whose life is it anyway?

"If I choose to live, it would be appalling if society killed me. If I choose to die, it is equally appalling if society keeps me alive."
BY DAVID RICKEY — As the ongoing debate on assisted suicide intensifies it continues to polarize public opinion on the right to choose quality of life, and what constitutes life [...]

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Spiritual Surf: Sukkot, Letterman, Dalai Lama, World Council of Churches, Tantric Sex

Freedom from slavery celebrated
Jews around the world are celebrating the Feast of Booths, or Sukkot, commemorating the Hebrews' freedom from slavery and sojourn through the Sinai desert. Always considered relevant, this holy day generates meditations on ecology, mysticism, and helping the homeless.
A day after the annual Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, David Letterman was [...]

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