Link Roundup: October 2014

Posted by: rbadmin on Oct 28, 2014 | No Comments

-From Mecca to “Mecca-hatten“: Islam’s holiest city then and now
-What war on Halloween? Kirk Cameron asks evangelicals to reappropriate the event for themselves in the name of proselytism
-Ex-Hasidic Jews and becoming un-orthodox: an interview with author Lynn Davidman

Link roundup: 5 June – 13 June

Posted by: rbadmin on Jun 5, 2011 | No Comments

Archaeologists discover a 300-year-old church in St. Augustine, Florida
Indian police break up a guru’s fast.
The Guardian publishes a philosophical critique of the new atheism.
Do alcoholics need god? The fight over a ‘higher power’ splits AA groups in Toronto.

Link roundup: 29 May – 31 May

Posted by: rbadmin on May 29, 2011 | No Comments

The Washington Post chronicles a Mormon church for singles.
A new piece from Stanley Fish in the New York Times, which considers the two faces of Judaism in American public discourse.
The New York Times also considers Oprah’s theology of suffering.

‘Eco’-Link roundup

Posted by: rbadmin on May 27, 2011 | No Comments

Thanks to the marvelous work of Nicholas Dion, you’ve seen religion in the news, but have you seen religion AND ecology in the news?

Due to the industrious work of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University – which gathers emails sent out by UNEP, the United Nations Environment Program – news on religion and ecology is but a mere mouse click away (for an archival inventory of such articles visit FORE). Here are a few to whet your whistle: