A Mind-Bending Translation of the New Testament
Source: The Atlantic BY JAMES PARKER In the beginning was … well, what? A clap of the divine hands and a poetic shock wave? Or an itchy node of nothingness inconceivably scratching […]
‘How is my daughter a pervert?’: Alabama dad’s plain-spoken rebuke of Roy Moore strikes a nerve
Source: The Washington Post By Eli Rosenberg December 11 at 11:38 PM Nathan Mathis holds a picture of his daughter outside a Roy Moore rally in Midland City, Ala. (@VaughnHillyard/Twitter) Perhaps it […]
Subway attack worries Brooklyn’s Little Bangladesh: ‘We don’t stand behind this stupidity’
Source: The Guardian Police officers stand outside a home in Brooklyn on Monday. Public records showed that an A Ullah had been registered at an address in Kensington. Photograph: Justin […]
Scientists have discovered new fossils that change the traditional human origin story
Source: Independent Posted a day ago by Narjas Zatat in news The origin story for modern humans goes that Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa and then migrated out of the continent to the Asian continent in […]
Islam in the modern age
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani His Highness Aga Khan-IV, the hereditary imam of the Ismaili Aga Khani community, is on a visit to Pakistan. To my mind he represents […]
Poll: Americans see different expectations for men and women
Source; Pew Research Center BY KIM PARKER, JULIANA MENASCE HOROWITZ AND RENEE STEPLER The public has very different views about what society values most in men and what it values in women. While […]
‘It Hurt.’ 3 Women Who Accused Trump of Sexual Harassment Want Their Stories Heard Anew
Source: Time By SAMANTHA COONEY Updated: December 11, 2017 11:44 AM ET Samantha Holvey, who said last year that Donald Trump personally “inspected” herbefore the Miss USA pageant a decade earlier, said […]
What to Know About the Attack in New York City Today
Source: Time By MELISSA CHAN Updated: December 11, 2017 10:47 AM ET Authorities said a 27-year-old man set off an explosive device that was strapped to his body at New York City’s Port […]
Prince Charles accession ‘could trigger debate on disestablishment’
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Prince Charles during a visit to Castell Coch, near Cardiff. Photograph: PA Prince Charles’s accession to the throne could trigger a national debate about the […]
To Some Zionist Christians And Jews, The Bible Says Jerusalem Is Israel’s Capital
Source: NPR BY TOM GJELTEN Twitter President Trump announced Wednesday that the U.S. views Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a controversial move that complicates Middle East politics. Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty […]
Jerusalem: It’s Tense, Crowded and Can Feel Like a Jail
Source: The New York Times By DAVID M. HALBFINGER DEC. 9, 2017 JERUSALEM — This is a tense city on a good day. You feel it behind the wheel: The traffic signals […]
How clerics are using an ancient privilege to fight the German state on refugees
Holly Young news@thelocal.de @holly_young88 5 December 2017 How clerics are using an ancient privilege to fight the German state on refugees Authorities in Bavaria have started to act against the church when it shields people the state wants to deport. But clerics say they are unbending in their determination to […]
BBC Debate: Do we misrepresent Islam?
Suggested Reading Defensive War in the Holy Quran in 600 Words Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran ‘Islamic Law’: A Myopic Reading of the Quran The Purpose And Context […]
Saudi Arabia to Lift Ban on Movie Theaters After 35 Years
Source: Time By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI AND AYA BATRAWY/ AP 10:30 AM EST (RIYADH) — Saudi Arabia announced on Monday it will allow movie theaters to open in the conservative kingdom next […]
Huntington’s breakthrough may stop disease
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News Image copyrightJAMES GALLAGHERImage captionPeter has Huntington’s disease and his siblings Sandy and Frank also have the gene The […]
New York Port Authority attack: Man held after Manhattan blast
Source: BBC News A man is being held after an attempted terror attack at New York City’s main bus terminal, officials say. “Terrorists won’t win,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said […]
Wildfires Are The ‘New Reality’ For California, Gov. Brown Warns
Source: Huffington Post By Nina Golgowski California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) toured some of the destruction left by unrelenting wildfires across his state on Saturday and warned that climate change is creating […]
Inside The Voucher Schools That Teach L. Ron Hubbard, But Say They’re Not Scientologist
Source: Huffington Post By Rebecca Klein CLEARWATER, Fla. ― It was a weekday afternoon here in early December, and a gaggle of kids outside of Clearwater Academy International were playing with […]
Harassment survey: ‘I’m a waitress but I feel like a sex worker’
Source: BBC News Nilufer Guler is a waitress, but says she feels more like a sex worker at times. On the second day in a new job, a table of […]
Google’s ‘superhuman’ DeepMind AI claims chess crown
Source: BBC News Google says its AlphaGo Zero artificial intelligence program has triumphed at chess against world-leading specialist software within hours of teaching itself the game from scratch. The firm’s […]