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  • Prof Patty
  • December 30, 2021December 30, 2021

‘THEOLOGICAL PORN’: THE MOST EGREGIOUS RELIGIOUS IDEA OF 2021 IS A TIE

BY MARY E. HUNT  DECEMBER 23, 2021 Competition was keen, but the award for the Most Egregious Religious Idea of 2021 resulted in a tie between that of Supreme Court Judge Amy Coney B

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  • Prof Patty
  • December 30, 2021

What Job Can Teach Us About Coping with Mental Health Crises

Job teaches us that helping those in overwhelming pain requires a careful balance between listening and understanding their unique agony while not making them feel too different or isolated. BY&nbs

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  • Kintsugi
  • October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

Who is Eckhart Tolle?

Who Is Eckhart Tolle? He is a German-Canadian spiritual teacher and self-help author best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’

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  • Kintsugi
  • September 22, 2021

A Rabbi’s Guide on Making Amends and Letting Those Grudges Go

Sept. 12, 2021 By David Wolpe There will always be things we cannot fully forgive and people who do not deserve to be restored to good reputation. And forgiving someone does not necessari

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  • Kintsugi
  • March 13, 2021March 13, 2021

What is Buddhism?

Buddhism is a non-theistic religion (no belief in a creator god), also considered a philosophy and a moral discipline, originating in India in the 6th and 5th cen

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  • Kintsugi
  • February 27, 2021February 27, 2021

America’s Changing Religious Identity

Executive Summary The American religious landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation. White Christians, once the dominant religious group in the U.S., now account for fewer than half of all a

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  • Prof Patty
  • August 8, 2020

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

The efforts of the Founders of the American nation to define the role of religious faith in public life and the degree to which it could be supported by public officials that was not inconsistent w

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NY Times

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  • Stocks Sink and Oil Dips After Trump Delays Threat to Bomb Iran
  • Roman Catholic Churches See a Surge of New Converts
  • Trump Says He Will Order T.S.A. Agents Paid as Funding Deal Stalls

NPR

  • Trump's attacks on offshore wind could hurt infrastructure spending across the economy
  • Asia boosts coal use as Iran war squeezes global LNG supplies
  • The oldest known recording of a whale song reveals how oceans have changed
  • This week's Short Wave news roundup
  • New autism group meets to counter MAHA's 'ideological agenda'

The Progressive

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  • Israel Can’t Bomb Its Way to Peace
  • Americans Are United Against Trump’s War
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  • Address Affordability, Give Farmers a Chance

FactCheck.org

  • Competing Claims on SAVE America Act Disenfranchising Voters
  • Q&A on the SAVE America Act
  • EPA’s Misleading Claim of $1.3 Trillion in Deregulatory ‘Savings’
  • No Broad Autism Approval for Leucovorin, Despite FDA Commissioner’s Prior Suggestions
  • How Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz Affects the U.S.

Snopes.com

  • Did Thomas Massie expose Stephen Miller funneling $890M through Cayman Islands? Claim doesn't add up
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  • When was the paper clip invented? Attaching the facts to Trump's ever-changing story
  • Posts claim image of Trump with young girl is real. There's no proof
  • 16 claims about TSA we've screened

Tradeoffs

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