Among some of the more questionable things Christine ODonnell (O'Donnell?) has said is her more recent statement that "God is praying for me ( Read more... )

A rabbi has started an online "collection's plate/tzedakah box" to cover the costs of cleaning/replacing the prayer rugs a drunk bigot ruined with his urine earlier this week in a New York mosque. Please consider donating to this most worthy cause; stand with our Muslim Americans in saying that it is never appropriate to defile the sacred space of ( Read more... )

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/08/ground-zero-imam-i-am-a-jew-i-have-always-been-one/61761/Read more... )

http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/american_muslim_leaders_visit_concentration_camps_20100817/

I can't believe there are no posts for the whole month of july!  :D

( Me and Ramadan )

I know at face value this looks like a piece on Israeli-Palestinian politics, but the deeper currents of ecumenical thinking, drawing on Jewish teaching, make it far more profound than that...

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Pardon the audio/video quality... it was shot on a cel phone! It's the message that counts.

http://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/media/user/documents/Remarks%20by%20Pope%20Benedict%20XVI.pdfRead more... )

1:34 AM 5/16/10 · This is a religious post but it's just as much a historic deal as that. I'm watching a 2 hour special on the History Channel, contrasting the current Robin Hood movie with the actual historical accounting and it's touched on a relative sore point of mine. I've seen just about all of the Robin Hood movies but most notably in recent ( Read more... )

10:28 PM 4/3/10 · In the past year I've lost a few friends, one of which was suicide. Now I know insofar as Christianity goes this is a direct line to Hell, for those of them that believe in it, or at the very least a roadblock from Heaven ( Read more... )

how does judaism and christianity address issues with a person who loses faith or is experiencing a detachment from faith?

i'm not really sure how we approach it in islam.  i would suppose one has to determine the root cause first.  then, one can go on to resolution.  i'll look into this further and edit this.