Daily Archives: July 12, 2012

This Is How You Go…

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I’m going to draw a rather unhelpful comparison. But I’m going to do it anyway. Why? Because reading of the recent ‘resignation’ of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, as Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, who was asked to step down by … Continue reading →

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Muslims and Archaeology

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What is it about Islam that leads so many Muslims to see their cultural patrimony as something to be despised and even destroyed? Harking back to the Taliban’s destruction of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001, Muslims in northern Mali last … Continue reading →

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The Latest from the Episcopal Organization

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Ad Orientem: The High Church wing of Unitarianism, sometimes known as the Episcopalians, are holding their General Convention and have approved three significant new resolutions. 1. They have forbidden any discrimination against transgendered persons seeking ordination. 2. They have approved … Continue reading →

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