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Into a Summer Woods

In fairy tales and fables, woods are often depicted as dark and dangerous...but, in reality, woods can help us connect to a greater spiritual world around us.

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Paradise Is a Whole Lot of Chocolate

Willy Wonka's chocolate-factory heaven is part of a long history of palatable paradises.

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Is Religion 'Built Upon Lies'?

Best-selling atheist Sam Harris and pro-religion blogger Andrew Sullivan debate God, faith, and fundamentalism.

Related Topics: Faiths, Secular Philosophies, Faith, Religious, human, Religion, God, Truth, Science, Reason, Mind, religious moderates

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Was Dracula a Christian Hero?

Elizabeth Kostova's new best-seller offers readers a Dracula concerned not just with blood, but with the fate of his soul.

Related Topics: Entertainment, Books, Dracula, Book, Vlad Draculas, History, Christian, Vampire Lore, actual beliefs, Vampire, vampire slayer, Muslim Dracula

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Loose Canon Archive: June 2005

Charlotte Hays's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics.

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Loose Canon Archive: April 2005

Charlotte Hays's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics.

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Loose Canon Archive: September 2004

Charlotte Hays's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics.

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Mary Magdalene's Secret

Was she a Benjamite heiress destined to carry on a sacred bloodline?

Related Topics: Entertainment, Movies, The Da Vinci Code, Child, bloodline, Marriage, royal bloodline, Mary Magdalenes Secret, Legend, dynastic marriage, French legend, royal, unborn child

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Who's Shaping the Christian Mind?

Bucking the trend at Christian bookstores, a theologian challenges the faithful to make reading a pilgrimage.

Related Topics: Entertainment, Christian, Christians, Christian mind, cotton candy, Mind, buy books, non Christian religious perspectives, Theology, insatiable intellectual curiosity, intellectual cotton candy

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Iran Takes Centre Stage in Paris Autumn Festival

Related Topics: Faiths, Islam, Festival, theatre, festival director, European film festivals, festivals Internet, Language, Italian theatre, Paris based British director, programme, medieval mystery plays