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BeliefWatch: Marriage

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Unlike Judaism, Islam is passed down through the father. The Qur’an even grants a Muslim man permission to marry a Jewish or Christian woman, so long as she is chaste. “A believing maid is better than an idolatrous woman,” the […]

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BeliefWatch: GodTube

BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek

What would Jesus download? One of the hottest sites on the Internet is GodTube.com, the Christian answer to YouTube. It’s a goofy, fascinating window into the world of Christian youth. There’s a clip of Ray Comfort, the popular evangelical preacher,

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BeliefWatch: Tree Hugger

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What has Rich Cizik done to make Jim Dobson so mad? Cizik has, for 26 years, been the Washington-based lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals, a job one would hardly call high profile. Over the past year, though, he

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BeliefWatch: Good Word

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On the day of John F. Kennedy’s funeral, Robert Kennedy wrote his eldest child, who was 12, a short note: “Dear Kathleen,” it said, “you seemed to understand that Jack died and was buried today. As the oldest of the

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BeliefWatch: Reporter

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In the aftermath of 9/11, when the offices of The Wall Street Journal were temporarily moved from Ground Zero to SoHo, a young journalist sat at his desk and edited one story after another about the Muslim world abroad. Jihad

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Slave Trade

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Once there was a Christian, a man from a wealthy family. He had conservative values, and he crusaded his whole life for social justice. In the end, he changed history. His name was William Wilberforce, and in 1807 he finally

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Beliefwatch: Interfaith

BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek

Christian pastors do it with Muslim imams. High-school seniors do it with each other. Actors and authors do it, as do comedians and combat pilots. It’s interfaith dialogue, and in the world of religion, it’s very much in vogue.

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Beliefwatch: Surf’s Up!

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There is at least one moment in every religious person’s life where commitment to faith collides, inconveniently, with desire. For Zeena Altalib, that moment occurred last year at the local swimming pool. An American Muslim of Iraqi descent, Altalib wanted

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Beliefwatch: Ivy League

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In your prayers tonight, you might want to thank God that no one has put you in charge of the Task Force on General Education at Harvard.

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Beliefwatch: Bookish

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When Julie Sandorf’s daughter, Sarah, was 3 years old, she came home from nursery school and declared: “Mommy, I don’t want to be a Jewish, I want to be a Christian.” These words sent Sandorf, an assimilated Jew with almost

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