Liberating Muslims from “their god”

Mosab Yousef says that he “crossed all the red lines in (his) society”. While that may be true, the real story of this son of Hamas leader Sheik Hassan Yousef, who spent years spying for Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, is far more complex. It even includes Yousef’s decision to convert to Christianity.

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Posted Mar 5th 2010 10:33AM by TMZ Staff

Brett Favre is 40 years old — but he definitely ain’t over the Hill.

Brett Favre: Click to watch
The Minnesota Vikings quarterback and his wife were on a double date last night with country music power couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill at Mastros — where Brett’s lips were still sealed on his future in football.

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Saved…Not Perfect

Strange ramblings by a Christian homeschool Mom about her life and family

SO, it’s been rough this week. Not just for me. For good friends as well. Keep Millstone in general in your prayers. I am pretty sure that there is spiritual warfare goin on here. Bad. It so hard. So hard to keep your focus when stupid stuff gets in the way. Why on earth do we let... [Read more]

At Texas campus, atheists offer porn for Bibles

An atheist group asked students at the University of Texas, San Antonio, to trade in their Bibles for pornography.

KENS-TV in San Antonio reports that the activists set up a table on campus with a sign advertising “Trade in Holy Text 4 Porn” — a deal they described as “Smut for Smut.”

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Re-Unification Church
By vorjack on March 2, 2010 in Cults.

by VorJack
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NPR has a story about the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the problems it’s having with losing members and the attempts it’s making to win them back.

Basically, the American wing of the church has always been modest in number, and those numbers have been declining:

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I’ve been asked to review the topic of women and religion over the past ten years. If we look honestly at organized religion, the news is not all good. There have been good moments, however.

Read Mata H.’s run down here: http://www.blogher.com/ten-years-not-enough-good-news-women-and-religion?wrap=life-tags/religion-spirituality

February 24, 2010

Angry crowds in a seaside slum attacked a group of Voodoo practitioners Tuesday, pelting them with rocks and halting a ceremony meant to honor victims of last month’s deadly earthquake, the Associated Press reports.

Voodooists gathered in Cite Soleil where thousands of quake survivors live in tents and depend on food aid, AP writer Paisley Dodds reports. Praying... [Read more]

Buddhist says Tiger understands Buddhism

I was intrigued by the 40 Trash Bags in 40 Days Lenten challenge that made the rounds of Catholic mom blogs during Lent last year.

This year’s social-studies review has drawn the most attention for the battles over what names should be included in the roll call of history. But while ignoring Kennedy and upgrading Gingrich are significant moves, something more fundamental is on the agenda. The one thing that underlies the entire program of the nation’s Christian conservative activists is, naturally, religion. But it isn’t... [Read more]