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Law and religion: Faith in courts

January 6th, 2011 | No Comments

As the season of goodwill fades, an old problem returns: religious disputes that draw in secular courts

PULSES rarely race in Shaughnessy, a genteel, old-money district of Vancouver where mature cedars shield mansions with giant drawing-rooms. But the splendid Anglican church there, which draws worshippers from across the city, is the centre of a dispute that arises in many countries: how should judges rule in religious rows? Usually such quarrels involve worldly goods and rival claims to be the true believers. They quickly raise theological issues normally settled in church councils, not the courtroom.

St John’s Shaughnessy is the largest of four conservative parishes in British Columbia that have quit Canada’s mainstream Anglican (Episcopalian) church in protest against the blessing of same-sex unions. They want to take their churches and their other property with them; their bishop is resisting. …

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Sat Eye Candy: Bad Religion

November 6th, 2010 | No Comments

THREE DECADES OF FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT AND MAKING AMAZING MUSIC

For 30 years Bad Religion has been a standard bearer for intelligence and craftsmanship in punk rock. From the start, they made it cool to be smart AND pissed-off, but angry about the right things, things far beyond the naval gazing of so many suburban punks. They’ve actively pushed listeners to educate themselves and take action to better the world. And they also happen to have arguably the greatest singer in punk history, Greg Graffin, who turns 46 today. Riding high on one of the best albums of their career, The Dissent of Man (released September 24), Bad Religion is on a lengthy fall tour right now. Be sure to let Greg know you’re glad he’s stuck it out for three decades, using his VERY sharp mind to give a real boot to the jerk-waters that so richly deserve it. (Dennis Cook)


We kick off our lil’ salute to BR with a standout from their 2007 masterpiece New Maps of Hell.

Speaking of hell, here’s an early fan favorite that still gets folks riled up.

Not many bands could forge a classic that’s only about a minute long. But most bands aren’t Bad Religion.

Here’s a couple from the new album taken from BR’s recent Epicenter Festival performance.

And another killer off New Maps.

For many Bad Religion fans, 1990′s Against The Grain will always be the yardstick by which they judge the band’s best work. We conclude with two of that record’s finest moments.

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Bad Religion: 30 Years LP Box Set

October 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

BOX SET OUT NOVEMBER 9;
INCLUDES INTO THE UNKNOWN LP AVAILABLE FOR FIRST
TIME
SINCE 1983


Bad Religion

Quintessential Southern California punk band Bad Religion
culminates their monumental 30th anniversary by announcing the release of a limited edition 30 Years LP
Box Set on November 9. The collection will be available exclusively at www.kingsroadmerch.com where beginning today fans are invited to
pre-order the Box Set for the sale price of $199.99 until October 25; price thereafter will increase to $224.99.

The must-have collection will include all fifteen of Bad Religion’s studio albums, How Could Hell Be Any Worse?,
Into The Unknown, Suffer, No Control, Against The Grain, Generator, Recipe For Hate, Stranger Than Fiction, The
Gray Race, No Substance, New America, The Process Of Belief, The Empire Strikes First, New Maps Of Hell and
their latest release The Dissent Of Man, on red vinyl and packaged in a beautiful black anniversary box. The
perfect holiday gift for vinyl fans, collectors and Bad Religion fanatics alike, 30 Years LP Box Set is a limited
edition and will undoubtedly sell out fast. This also marks the first time Into the Unknown has been
available on
vinyl LP since 1983.

Bad Religion Tour Dates:

10/22 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom (w/Off With Their Heads & The Aggrolites)
10/23 – Atlantic City, NJ – House of Blues (w/Off With Their Heads & The Aggrolites)
10/24 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live (w/Off With Their Heads & The Aggrolites)
10/26 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza (w/Off With Their Heads & The Aggrolites)

10/27 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza (w/Off With Their Heads & The Aggrolites)
10/29 – Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues (w/Off With Their Heads & The Aggrolites)
10/30 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues (w/Off With Their Heads & The Aggrolites)

10/31 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (w/Off With Their Heads & The Aggrolites)
11/5 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live (w/Off With Their Heads & The Aggrolites)

11/6 – Austin, TX – Waterloo Park (w/Off With Their Heads)
11/8 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre (w/Bouncing Souls & Off With Their Heads)
11/9 – Tempe, AZ – The Marquee (w/Bouncing Souls & Off With Their Heads)

11/11 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theatre (w/Bouncing Souls & Off With Their Heads)

11/12 – Denver, CO – The Fillmore Auditorium (w/Bouncing Souls & Off With Their Heads)
11/13 – Salt Lake City, UT – In the Venue (w/Bouncing Souls & Off With Their Heads)
11/15 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theatre (w/Bouncing Souls & Off With Their Heads)
11/17 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo (w/Bouncing Souls & Off With Their Heads)

11/18 – Eugene, OR – McDonald Theatre (w/Bouncing Souls & Off With Their Heads)
11/19 – San Francisco, CA – Regency Center – Grand Ballroom (w/Bouncing Souls & Off With Their Heads)
11/20 – San Francisco, CA – Regency Center – Grand Ballroom (w/Off With Their Heads)

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Oct. 22, 4004 B.C.: Universe Usshered In

October 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

4004 B.C.: It’s the beginning of time, according to 17th century Irish bishop and theologian James Ussher — and not just any old moment on that fateful date, but “on the beginning of the night.”
Ussher’s calculations, published in the Annals of the Old Testament, Deduced From the First Origins of the World, strike most [...]

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Vatican Declares Bart & Homer Simpson Catholic

October 18th, 2010 | No Comments

D’oh! The Vatican has declared Bart and Homer Simpson Catholic! They may misbehave with abandon, but Homer and Bart Simpson are members of the Catholic flock, the semi-official Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, said in its Sunday edition. Apparenty, The Vatican doesn’t mind that Homer regularly sleeps through Sunday morning worship service and serves up never-ending [...]

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Julia Roberts’ “Eat Pray Love” Upsets Catholics

August 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Julia Roberts thinks her Eat Pray Love heroine Elizabeth Gilbert is an “amazing woman.” Sadly for Everyone’s Favorite “Pretty Woman,” religious film buffs weren’t as impressed with Roberts’ performance in Columbia Pictures’ box office interpretation of the best-selling memoir.The Washington-based Catholic News Service (CNS), the world’s oldest religious news wire, is giving the film a [...]

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Islamic center near Ground Zero

August 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Controversy is swirling around a proposed Islamic center and mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A Florida church pastor made plans to burn copies of the Quran in protest.

 

Religion, politics and race are at the heart of all the discussion taking place. We’d like to hear what you have to say about the Islamic center and the response it’s gotten. Should the mosque be built, and if so, where? Is it OK to burn religious texts to make a statement?

 

Put yourself on video and let us know your thoughts, whether you approve of the mosque or not.

 

Note: Some of your views we’re published on CNN.com and we received numerous questions for Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. See how an iReporter reacted to the response she got.

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Fun Fun Fun Fest: MGMT, Hold Steady, Bad Religion

August 4th, 2010 | No Comments

NOVEMBER 5-7 AT WATERLOO PARK IN AUSTIN, TX



Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010

Fun Fun Fun Fest is proud to announce the full lineup for the 5th annual Fun Fun Fun Fest to be held
November 5 – 7, 2010 at Waterloo Park in Austin, TX. And, for the first year ever, a third day has been added to the
official Fun Fun Fun festivities. The festival will kick off Friday, November 5 at 6:00 with Weird Al Yankovic
headlining.

Early Bird tickets are limited to 1,000 fans and on sale now at a 10% discount for 3 day passes. You can purchase
tickets online at www.funfunfunfest.com.

FUN FUN FUN FEST 2010 COMPLETE LINE-UP:

ORANGE STAGE:

Weird Al Yankovic
MGMT
Devo

Dirty Projectors
The Hold Steady
Man Man
Cap’n Jazz
Os Mutantes
Deerhunter
Wavves

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti

Polvo
Kaki King
Dum Dum Girls
Best Coast
Crocodiles
Magic Kids
Indian Jewelry
Appleseed Cast
Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos

Toro Y Moi
Junius
Woven Bones
Royal Forest

Mother Falcon

BLACK STAGE:

Bad Religion

GWAR

The Vandals

Dwarves

The Gories
Municipal Waste

Strike Anywhere
The Casualties

Valient Thorr
Jeff The Brotherhood
The Briggs
Power Trip

Eagle Claw

Mastodon
Suicidal Tendencies
High On Fire
Snapcase
Floor

The Bronx
Ringworm

Kylesa
OFF!
Peelander Z
Hatred Surge
Black Congress

BLUE STAGE:

RJD2
Slick Rick (performing “Great Adventures Of”)

Deakin (of Animal Collective)

Delorean
Big Freedia
Designer Drugs
Devin The Dude

Invincible

Butcher Bear and Charlie
League of Extraordinary Gz
DJ Nick Nack
A-trak

Yelle
Pharoahe Monch
Jean Grae

POS
Dam-Funk
Dominique Young Unique

Black Nasty
DJ Bird Peterson

Crew 54

YELLOW STAGE:

Cold Cave (doing a live visual projection show)
Monotonix

Mariachi El Bronx

Live Action Wrestling
Veggie Hot Dog Eating Contest
Punk Rock Story Time with Joe Sib (spoken word)
New Movement (live sketch comedy)

Air Sex Contest (presented by Alamo Draft House)
Live Stunt Show
Video Shows
Stand Up Comedy with: Matt Bearden, Altercation Punk Rock Comedy tour and many more tba.


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Anne Rice Abandons Christainity

July 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Anne Rice is so over Jesus.On her Facebook page Wednesday, the author behind the vampire fiction hit Interview with a Vampire, announced that she is turning in her Born-Again Card after refusing to adapt to a number of Christian doctrines. The 68-year-old gothic novelist says she refuses to be “anti-gay … anti-feminist,” and “anti-artificial birth birth [...]

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Riot Fest 2010: Bad Religion, Bosstones

July 8th, 2010 | No Comments

FESTIVAL RUNS OCTOBER 6-10; CIRCLE JERKS, LESS THAN JAKE, BOUNCING SOULS,
AGNOSTIC FRONT, THE MEATMEN INCLUDED IN THE LINEUP


Bad Religion

Riot Fest announces the largest punk festival yet, set for October 6-10, 2010 in Chicago. Bad Religion, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Circle Jerks, Articles of Faith, Snapcase,
Less Than Jake, The Lawrence Arms, Bouncing Souls, High On Fire, Corrosion of Conformity, Riverboat Gamblers, Red Oktoberfest
presented by Red Scare, “Busted at Oz” Reunion, Cro-Mags, FUN., Negative
Approach, Smoking Popes,
Bhopal Stiffs, The Meatmen, Agnostic Front, Off With Their Heads, Brendan Kelly, The Toasters, Roy Ellis a.k.a. Mr. Symarip, Righteous
Fool and many more. A full listing of announced bands is available at www.riotfest.org. Fans should be ready for new announcements of another
batch of heavyweight bands in the coming weeks – Riot Fest is by no means done announcing major additions to this
hoard of punk stars.

An extraordinary array of punk bands will take the stages at Congress Theater, Metro, House of Blues, Double Door
and Subterranean. There will 17 shows over five venues (not including secret shows), making 5 day passes
extraordinarily economical. With more headliners than ever before, Riot Fest saw the need to make traversing the
city easier and answered the call – 2010 will find shuttle buses running from Cobra Lounge (there is ample free
parking nearby) to each venue and back, where rumor has it that late-night free shows will be going down. A series
of official Riot Fest secret shows will be announced via RiotFest.org; they’ll take place undisclosed locations over the
summer and fall.

Early-bird 5 Day passes will go on sale in a limited quantity on Saturday, July 10 at the low early bird price of 115.00
for 17 shows – there are limited quantities available, first come, first serve.

All Riot Fest tickets go on sale Saturday, July 17. For more information, visit www.riotfest.org. Fans can sign up
for the Riot Fest announcements to receive early info on secret shows and special deals. To purchase tickets visit TicketWeb.


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Bad Religion: Free Live Album

May 14th, 2010 | No Comments

CAN YOU FREAKIN’ BELIEVE IT’S BEEN 30 YEARS!?!!

Venerable punk godfathers Bad Religion will release a free live album, 30 Years, on May 18. To receive a download code, sign up here. The album will feature 17 live cuts and two studio tracks from Bad Religion’s forthcoming new album.

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Westboro Baptist Church Will Protest During Constance McMillen Graduation

April 29th, 2010 | No Comments

A controversial hate group that routinely protests at the funerals and concerts of some of Hollywood’s most noted celebrities will picket at the graduation of a rural Mississippi teenager who made national headlines when she was denied the chance to go to her school’s prom because she is a lesbian.The Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church announced [...]

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How I Realized My Sense Of Self And Why It Changed Me Forever

April 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Welcome to the next article in this series on positive change. By now you should have had a chance to read the first four articles, in the following order. If not, please do so before you read this article.

Is It Really Possible To Create The Change You Want In Your Life?
What I Can Teach [...]

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Religion and human rights: The limits of freedom and faith

March 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Opponents of a bid by Muslim states to “protect religion” claim a small success

IT DOES not happen often: Christian lobbyists, the sort who favour prayer in American classrooms and crucifixes in Italian ones, lining up on the same side as secularists who battle to curb religion’s role in the public square. But in both those camps there has been some quiet satisfaction after a recent vote at the United Nations. Not over the outcome, but over the slim margin of defeat.

On March 25th the Human Rights Council (HRC), a Geneva-based UN agency which often exasperates its Western members, voted by 20 votes to 17, with eight abstentions, for a text that lists the “defamation of religion” as an infringement of liberty. Nothing amazing there: the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which groups 56 mainly Muslim states (plus Palestine), has been working to push resolutions of that kind through the General Assembly and other UN bodies since 2005. But the margin was the smallest ever, and opponents think there could be a good chance of defeating a “defamation” motion next time one comes around. …

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Bad Religion: 30th Anniversary

February 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

THREE DECADES AND STILL AS RIGHTEOUSLY RIGHT ON AS EVER!

Bad Religion

2010 marks the 30th anniversary of quintessential Los Angeles punk rock pioneers Bad Religion, and to kick off the yearlong celebration the band will perform music spanning their storied career at multiple-night shows at House of Blues in Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Diego and Las Vegas beginning March 17.

The band also announces that they are currently writing new music with plans to head to the studio this spring and release their 15th studio album later this fall, culminating their anniversary celebration. See JamBase’s rave for Bad Religion’s last album, New Maps of Hell, here.

Formed in 1980 in the suburbs of Los Angeles by teenage friends – guitarist Brett Gurewitz, bassist Jay Bentley and singer Greg Graffin, with the additions of Greg Hetson (1984-Present), Brian Baker (1994-Present) and Brooks Wackerman (2001-Present) – Bad Religion have become synonymous with intelligent, provocative West Coast punk rock and are considered one of the most influential and important bands in the genre. Over the past three decades the band has continually pushed social boundaries and questioned authority and beliefs armed only with propulsive guitars, charging drumbeats, thoughtful lyrics and an undying will to inspire and provoke anyone who will listen.

“The greatest feeling about this anniversary is that it is happening at all,” says Graffin. “I’m mostly uplifted by the fact that a vibrant and evolving punk scene still inspires young people all over the world. If Bad Religion somehow serves as a symbol for the lasting importance of punk, then I am satisfied beyond words by reaching this milestone.”

Bad Religion Tour Dates

Mar 17 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
Mar 18 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
Mar 19 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
Mar 20 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
Mar 21 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
Mar 24 – Los Angeles, CA – House of Blues
Mar 25 – Los Angeles, CA – House of Blues
Mar 26 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
Mar 27 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
Mar 31 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
Apr 1 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
Apr 2 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues

More dates to be added soon

Bad Religion 30th Anniversary Celebration from Bad Religion on Vimeo.


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Religious freedom: Too many chains

December 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Two centuries after the French and American revolutions, and 20 years after Soviet communism’s fall, liberty of conscience may be receding again

THE Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of the great moral statements of the 20th century, could not be clearer. It says that “everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion,” including the right to change religion and to “manifest his religion in teaching, practice, worship and observance”.

America’s Founding Fathers, albeit living in a world where most people were assumed to be theists and Christians, used finer prose to affirm their belief in liberty. Given that God had endowed the human mind with freedom, said Thomas Jefferson, “all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness.” …

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Tues Double Shot: Bad Religion

November 17th, 2009 | No Comments

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S LONGSTANDING PUNK CHAMPS

Bad Religion

In the tradition ’70s FM radio, JamBase’s Tuesday tradition offers readers a pair of fab tunes from an artist worthy of the Double Shot treatment. This week we make it a triple since the songs are so short! Bad Religion is perhaps the most vibrant, musically switched-on survivors of the early ’80s U.S. punk boom. With arguably the greatest voice in second wave punk in Greg Graffin, Bad Religion remains just as righteously pissed off almost 30 years on, and has added layers of sophistication to their steel hard sound. This assortment starts with “Do What You Want” from 1988′s landmark Suffer, still many BR fans’ all-time favorite album and a stellar example that in the hands of the right musicians one-minute and change can be plenty of time to get the job done. From 2002′s The Process of Belief, which saw original guitarist Brett Gurewitz return, we present a rare slower number, the philosophical “Epiphany.” And lastly, we have “Before You Die,” a pile driving gem from their most recent release, 2007′s New Maps of Hell (JamBase review).


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Religion and climate change: Sounding the trumpet

November 5th, 2009 | No Comments

A link-up between faith and greenery brings unlikely people together

ENVIRONMENTALISM is a hard corner to fight in Louisiana, a state where oil, gas and chemical companies are big in the economy and politics. But it takes a lot to frighten Albertha Hasten, a larger-than-life campaigner for poor citizens, and above all for fellow African-Americans, who in her view suffer disproportionately from contamination of the air, water and soil.

In her small, rickety home town of White Castle, the tap-water often comes out “blacker than me”, she has complained. Mrs Hasten fights the cause of communities affected by oil spills in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and she makes indignant phone calls to the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, to say federal pollution standards are being violated. And like many people in and around New Orleans, she fears the city could again be threatened if sea levels rise and hurricanes become even more frequent as a result of climate change. …

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Egypt and global Islam: The battle for a religion’s heart

August 6th, 2009 | No Comments

In an ideological contest between radicals, populists and moderates, speaking out can still carry a heavy personal cost

WHICH trend will prevail among the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims—violent confrontation or peaceful coexistence? Will Islam aspire to political power, or will more mystical or pietistic versions of the religion win out? People whose job is to wrestle with those questions, be they theologians or strategists, always keep a close eye on Egypt: the home of Sunni Islam’s greatest university, al-Azhar, and the country where political Islam, in many different forms, was incubated.

And the good news, from Islam-watchers in Egypt, is that the appeal of the most violent kind of Islamist radicalism has been waning for some time. That decline is also noticeable in many neighbouring countries—and indeed in most Muslim places, apart from bloodstained peripheries like Pakistan’s Swat Valley. …

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Archbishop warns against gay clergy

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Rowan Williams says stand taken by US Episcopals could cause isolation and relegation in Anglican communion

The archbishop of Canterbury today reiterated his opposition to ordaining gay clergy and authorising same-sex blessings, warning liberal churches that such practices would lead to isolation and relegation in the Anglican communion.

Rowan Williams was responding in a statement today to developments in the US Episcopal church which earlier this month voted to open the ordination process to gay people and to consider developing blessings for same-sex couples.

In typically lengthy and nuanced prose, the archbishop said that the church’s stance on these matters was unlikely to “repair the broken bridges in the life of the other Anglican provinces” and that “very serious anxieties had already been expressed” in the communion.

Same-sex blessings were “at the very least analogous” to Christian marriage and people living in such unions could not “without serious incongruity” have a representative function in a church whose public teaching was “at odds with their lifestyle”, he said.

This disparity in theology and practice between conservatives and liberals – exacerbated by the consecration of Gene Robinson in 2003 as the communion’s first bishop in a relationship with another man – would lead to a “twofold ecclesial reality”, he added.

“Perhaps we are faced with the possibility of a two-track model, two ways of witnessing Anglican heritage, one of which had decided that local autonomy had to be the prevailing value.”

Those Anglican provinces accepting the covenant – a good behaviour guide for churches – would be able to participate fully in communion matters and in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue. Those who thought it more important to adhere to local pressures would have a lesser, unofficial, role in the life of the communion because there had to be clarity “about who has the authority to speak for whom”.

Williams has been pushing the covenant as the only way to heal the rift between warring factions, but it has found little favour with the Episcopal church, which sees the document as disproportionately punitive towards churches that are more inclusive and liberal.

Neither Williams nor the covenant does enough to tackle the issue of African churches interfering in US parishes, say Episcopalians, interventions that have seen conservative churches flock to African archbishops and bishops for spiritual leadership. In an act of rebellion, some Episcopalians broke away earlier this year to form their own church.

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