(Introductory note: Since these posts, by design, contain lots of articles at once, I'm going to try to start placing asterisks besides those that I thought most particularly interesting [though all the articles are interesting, obviously]. So if you only have time for one or two, start there.)
--Good editorial about the meaningfulness of Harry Potter.
*--Is the Republican Party as much a religion as a political system...
--...and has it overplayed its hand in the debt ceiling debate...
--...and what's the deal with all its pledges? Hmm, wonder if race has any part in all of this.
--I've been reading some of Religion Dispatches blogger Joanna Brooks' articles on Mormonism in America and think they are worthy of comment. I agree with some parts of what she says and disagree with others, but I do think she is earnest, which I greatly appreciate. Here are her defense of Mormonism as falling within Christianity, discussion of the Heavenly Mother, and report about a newly-filed case to decriminalize polygamy in Utah.
--Amazing interviews with a victim of post-9/11 violence and his assailant.
*--And an interesting article in the NY Times about how different Episcopal dioceses within New York state are responding to the impending legalization of same-gender marriages
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