In Oxford, they seem unable to tell the difference. (We lived on Cowley Road for three years.) Oxford City Council apologises for cancelling Passion Play ‘it mistook for live sex show’ A council has apologised after it cancelled a Good Friday Passion Play because it thought it was a live […]
Religion
Well, it is really just about the Temple Mount/Dome of the Rock. Produced by Jorge Cham of PhD Comics. Archaeology Grad Student Nir Ortal explains the brief 3000 year old history of the Temple Mount in The Old City of Jerusalem. v
An interesting long piece from the CHE: The New Theist – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education. I like what the opening reveals about Richard Dawkins and his view of the role of the press. When, during a conversation in a swank hotel lobby in Manhattan, I mentioned […]
The story starts here, with a NY state assemblyman from Brooklyn, Dov Hikind dressed in black face as a basketball player at a Purim party. Now watch this. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
No, it is not some new WWE extravaganza (but I know some who would pay to watch it) it is a surprisingly good Chronicle of Higher Education Article on the war that is raging between the so-called “New Atheists” (now with 40% more bile!) and those atheists and scholars who […]
Supreme Court Recognizes 'Ministerial Exception' to Employment-Discrimination Laws – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education. In a decision with major implications for church-affiliated colleges and their employees, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held today that the First Amendment precludes the application of federal employment-discrimination laws to religious institutions’ personnel […]
I am sure that I am late to this discussion, but this morning I was catching up on some podcasts. A great one that I think you will really like is PRI’s The World in Words. As the title implies, it is about words, language, and rhetoric around the world. […]
And does it help that the first one is actually a billboard put up by a church, or that the ad agency responsible for the second one is run by a Jewish man? via Comics I Don’t Understand » Offensive or Not?.
This is cross posted from my PLA blog. This post is intended to spur on discussion. The blog posts that our students are required by assignment must be longer and contain their own argument and perspective. The new law, reported by the Telegraph, is apparently being introduced because thousands of Muslims […]