Sentences with phrase «written about religion»

As someone who has written about religion for years, I've noticed a pattern.

Emma Green — The Atlantic: Emma Green is Managing Editor of The Atlantic and writes about religion and culture.

Anyone who writes about religion all day long already has it, regardless of their rationalizations.

When I first started writing about religion for an online news site, I eagerly turned to the comment section for my articles, fishing for compliments and wondering if I had provoked any thoughtful discussions about faith.

«The progressive Catholic vision is a tolerant, introspective vision, and personally I see it as offering nothing but positive outcomes for the learning experience,» said Jacques Berlinerblau, a Georgetown professor who writes about religion and politics.

«Yes, I'm not surprised that a man who agreed with me in Screwtape... might disagree with me when I wrote about religion.

The Communist News Network needs to get a clue and hire someone to write about religion who knows (even a small amount) about what he writes??

(CNN)- The U.S. ambassador to Malta has submitted his resignation, just over a week after he was called out in a State Department report for allegedly devoting time to writing about religion at the expense of his official duties.

Those first 170 pages are one of the best introductions to Islam in English, a model of writing about a religion other than one's own.

My own writing about religion grew out of the fundamental question raised by the new situation: Is religion something that may or may not be very important to humans, or must it in some way integrate all other aspects of existence?

defining moment came in the late 1970s and early 1980s when what Boyagoda calls the «two - track» nature of Richard's writing about religion and politics hitched a ride on the zeitgeist.

Even though I worked for a Jewish agency and wrote about religion professionally, when it came to my home life I was almost completely unobservant.

«The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.»

I feel that adequate writing about a religion by an outsider requires an imaginative recognition that if, say, I had been born a Hindu I would presumably remain a Hindu, if born a Muslim I would presumably remain a Muslim, but if born a German I like to think that I would not have been a Nazi.

Indeed, when one reads a good deal of writing about religion, one discovers that belief in the reality of God and belief in such a «life after death» seem to be linked together.

Living for the Laugh: I write about my religion: My Children.

Writing about religion, she concedes, is tricky business.

You would think that I was writing about religion or politics!

Not exact matches

CNN: My Take: Cuban cars, Santeria, and the spirit of improvisation Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» writes about a recent trip to Cuba.

What Hitchens wrote about the evils of religion was not so much a scholarly argument, but more a wave of righteous indignation that levelled everything in its path.

All those religion books that were written thousand years ago by people who had no idea about other cultures or how could they make sense one thousand years later are no better than cartoons.

Writing in 1983, Michael E. Smith noted that Douglas» autobiography expressed contempt for conventional religion and that Black's son acknowledged his father's dark suspicions about the Catholic Church.

It was written by 2 Mormons and covers everything a non - Mormon would want to know about the religion.

The stories written about him decades later are inconsistent with each other on important details, went through an editing process hundreds of years later, and incorporate a number of myths of other religions popular at the time.

Yes its even written into law, something about freedom of religion or some ridiculousness.

Newton wrote more about religion than he did about science.

I don't care what religion Romney is because I'm not voting for him anyway... Religion should be only a minimal part of ones vote anyway... Some one wrote in one of these columns that he hadn; t heard any big noise about Kennedy being Catholic when he ran for president!..

Also Jesus» brother wrote about what undefiled religion looks like, so there's nothing wrong with religion, per se.

«Our test to see if a similar story would be written about others» religion is to substitute «Jew» or «Jewish,»» Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul wrote in objection to a Washington Post article last fall about the candidate's role as a church leader in Boston.

Reading articles like this is so painful because it is so obvious the author knows nothing about any of the religions he's writing on.

We, and our students, have written not only about God but also about the problem of evil, Christ, the church, Christian education, pastoral counseling, preaching, the nature of human beings, history, liberation and salvation, spirituality, religious diversity, interfaith dialogue, science and religion, and other standard theological topics.

No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those other religions did not have Jesus as a Savior and did not have men writing 1000s of years apart talking about the same events, and phrophecizing about things that happened in later chapters written hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man like Jesus, who spoke the words that Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him like Jesus did, and spoke the parabales and life lessons like Jesus did... look at what Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a better teacher of life then in His words.

In fact, the goal of this site is to write about these topics in ways that liberate, rescue, and redeem people from religion.

She wrote about vampires, and at one point she forsook secularism and embraced religion.

We have far too many who aren't willing to stand for what is right and oppose what is wrong in our society and culture... This pastors «vision» sounds too much like the world John Lennon wrote about in his song «imagine» where there is no God and «no religion».

All books about other religions, for example, are written by Christians as attacks on other religions.

Leonie Caldecott writes in a style and with assumptions that make her offerings interesting and acceptable to people who have been brought up to believe in a market - place idea of religion, that it's «all about choice» and that we need to evaluate belief - systems in the light of our own knowledge and skills, or what we imagine to be our own knowledge and skills.

In «The God Delusion», he wrote a chapter on morality that he introduced with the words: «This chapter is about evil, and its opposite, good; about morality: where it comes from, why we should embrace it, and whether we need religion to do so.»

From her work as a religion editor at Publishers Weekly, to her expansive writing and lecturing career, to her The Divine Hours series, Phyllis has a remarkable ability to speak wisely and prophetically about the future of Christianity while remaining joyfully rooted in its past.

Comments here are not about disparaging «faith» — that's the fundamental of any religion — it's about each religion being «the religion», about the belief that person (or persons) who wrote the books are infallible and that scholars who interpret them do so accurately.

Chine is of Nigerian descent and has a passion for reporting religion's impact on society, as well as writing and speaking about faith, race and gender.

I chose these particular perspectives because 1) nearly every blog post I've written about them has been critical recently, 2) because they cover the three big opinion - makers — religion, politics, and lifestyle, and 3) because I have friends who actually agreed to talk to me about them!

Before I write about Allah and the Muslim religion I want to say that I do not dislike Muslims.

Mike Keffer writes about the pain of being condemned as a heretic by the leaders of his church, and how this experience freed him from religion so he could better follow Jesus.

The people who wrote this article know very little about physics and are trying desperately to use anything to prop up their dwindling delusion of religion.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

Got ta write about both sides religion or it's one sided.

King once wrote that «any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them... is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.»

There are parallels in other religions the like Egyptian and Hindu — Horus and Krishna each as the son of god at the time they were written and spoken about.

A great deal is being written these days about the increasing role of religion in American life, and in particular, its political life.