Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

The Atlantic But according to their report, church communities are struggling with this: They pointed to pastors having a hard time keeping up the day-to-day management of their congregations, focusing on attendance rather than conversion, and choosing “to celebrate other … Continue reading →

Slate For the HECSC, religions are content neutral. That is, all religions are of identical value and validity simply because they are religions and people practice them; there can be no inquiry into the ways in which they genuinely differ and/or offer … Continue reading →

Slate We’re still living in a world where women are defined by the sex they have, while men are defined by, you know, other things they say and do.

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Native History Lakota Elder continues: “White people are taught to keep away from things because of ownership, not because of RESPECT. This is why traditional indigenous people had no need for locks, no need for written laws, no jails. There was no stealing, if … Continue reading →

NYTimes WHEN Doug Hollan arrived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi for his anthropology dissertation fieldwork in a rice farming village, his Toraja neighbors wanted to take turns sleeping with him and his wife. The rural Toraja almost never sleep … Continue reading →

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