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12 April 2008

Sunday's Compassion Forum Focus: Domestic and International Poverty

By Alexander Carpenter
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Only one day until the Compassion Forum. Already the pundits are opining about what this means for Americans of faith and the presidential candidates. It was not long ago that the media mostly treated the GOP as more Christian than Democrats, and forgot to talk about the interfaith diversity of the American public.

11 April 2008

Sunday's Compassion Forum Focus: Global HIV/AIDS

By Alexander Carpenter
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CNN is starting to plug Sunday's Compassion Forum.
Faith leaders will converse with presidential candidates about poverty, global HIV/AIDS, genocide and Darfur, climate change, human rights and torture.

10 April 2008

Sunday's Compassion Forum: Climate Change

By Alexander Carpenter
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This Sunday evening CNN is broadcasting a conversation between diverse faith leaders and presidential candidates Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama.

The Compassion Forum is focused on just five important issues to folks of faith: domestic and international poverty, global AIDS, climate change, genocide in Darfur, and human rights and torture.

There Will Be Blood

Posted March 9th, 2008 by Steve Parker
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic saga, There Will Be Blood, is the must see movie of the year so far - in fact, it is the best movie to hit our screens for many years. Based on Upton Sinclair’s novel, Oil!, it’s a brilliant story touching on an incredible range of themes.

20 February 2008

C-SPAN's StudentCam Winner: Leaving Religion at the Door?

By Alexander Carpenter
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Today C-SPAN announced the winners of its StudentCam contest. The Grand Prize winning video is “Leaving Religion at the Door,” by Scott Mitchell and Nick Poss, 11th graders at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma. Their film explores the role of religion in decisions about presidential candidates in 2008.

12 February 2008

Nancey Murphy on science, religion and the environment

By Alexander Carpenter
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Jeffrey Schloss, Professor of Biology at Westmont College and Director of Biological Programs for the Christian Environmental Association; and Nancey Murphy, Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary reflect on current debates about intelligent design, emergent research on science and religion, the environment, and other issues of contemporary concern. Dr. Murphy was the Adventist Forum Conference keynote speaker in 2006.

9 December 2007

Discussion on Romney and Faith in America

By Jonathan Pichot
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Recent discussion on Charlie Rose. I found the comments of Jon Meacham, current editor of Newsweek and author of the book American Gospel, particularly interesting. Pay attention to his analysis that church and state in America are separated but not religion and politics. He also mentions that anyone not considering to vote for Romney because of his faith is practicing a form or religious bigotry.

7 December 2007

Epistemology Stress – Mormon Style

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I live in Salt Lake City, which provides a front-row seat for religious issues affecting the LDS subculture. Recently there has been intense discussion concerning a one-word change to the introduction to the Book of Mormon (BOM). For details see the following articles:

In the Deseret News
In the Salt Lake Tribune

23 November 2007

Religion Is Not Going Anywhere

By Kirsten Nixon
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Separating religion from the political world has been an objective of many individuals and developing nations for the better part of the last 300 years, and as this article from the November 1, 2007 Economist recounts, religion,

The Language of God

Posted November 16th, 2007 by Marc Wagner
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I’ll never forget the day I nearly lost my faith over an old skull. I was sixteen and a sophomore in High School. My biology professor, a staunch evolutionist, was writing on the chalkboard. He looked suspiciously like the chimpanzees he admired—large protruding ears, prominent forehead, and thick lower lip. We had just opened our textbooks to chapter 12 and I was preparing once again to plug my ears and hum through the lecture when I glanced down at a picture on the left-facing page. I froze.

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