The God who died is the God of Christendom, who bound together Western society with a universal account ofthe world that did not survive the advent of postmodernism; this God, indeed, is dead.7 The God who remains alive is the one adapted to postmodernism; the vitality ofthat God is on display in contemporary American religion, especially in the spirituality movement.8 The most pressing religious problem now confronting the world is posed by believers who refuse to recognize the postmodern condition that has brought about the demise ofthe first God and the rise ofthe second; I will refer to such believers as fundamentalists. Whether God exists, who or what God is, what life means (or doesn't) as a consequence of this nonexistence, what demands God makes on humankind, whether and how on...
The modern conservative movement began 60 years ago with the publication of a book by a 26-year-old first-time author. Reflecting on that work teaches us something important about the nature and trajectory of modern conservatism, about the energy that propelled the movement and about serious problems with the movement today. The book was "God and Man at Yale." The author was William F. Buckley Jr.
It came as quite a joyful surprise for us to see the Mayor of New Orleans re-elected in order for him to run a "chocolate city." Not ours, but [Ray Nagin]'s. But isn't it kind of wonderful, that in spite of the fact that there were more whites than Blacks, more rich than poor voting in New Orleans, that a Black Mayor was voted to be in charge of this half million person city, reduced by flood, famine, what have you, to approximately one hundred thousand? There is, a phrase: "and God gave Noah a rainbow sign, no more water, but fire next time." James Baldwin used that quote in an essay which became a short book called "The Fire Next Time." Who is there among us who can say that the time is not yet here for the fire next time to look upon us without favor and destroy what we have become b...
Every day, we have the opportunity to dream, to pursue our passions, to be a blessing to others and to be blessed. So, let us see the vastness of our great potential and the many possibilities that God is setting before us and then, go after them. If we put our hearts and minds into what we'd like to accomplish and if we but try and don't give up, there is no dream too big for us to achieve. We each have the incredible power within us right now to create a better life. How big are your dreams? Is there something special that you'd like to fulfill?
Helping Moderate Muslims By Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf It is customary for Muslims to begin by first invoking the name of the all-merciful and all-compassionate creator, the creator of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, the God of Abraham, the God of Ishmael and Isaac, the God of Moses and Aaron, the God of Jesus Christ and his mother, Mary, and the God of Mohammed. [...] I'm grateful to our mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and to so many others who have spoken out in favor of our project. Participatory government; freedom of speech; separation of church and state: these were among my earliest lessons in American civic life.
He said, 'If you're going to be on the streets, I want you to be on the streets the right way,'" Franzese told a TV reporter. "That's how it started for me. Rudolph Guiliani was his main nemesis. "'I'm going to give you 100 years,'" Franzese says the former prosector told him. "Luckily I beat that charge." "I spent 17 years in 'the life,'" Franzese says. "The night of surrender [to the Lord] was Nov. 13, 1991. I got stripped of everything. My bank accounts, the cars, my house. [It was] the first time in my life I ever experienced hopelessness. Everyone- the government, my wife, my father, the guys on streets, my kids- was mad at me. I said, 'Lord, I need help. 'Cuz I don't know how to deal with this.'"
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