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... an extraordinary ordinance, set to be voted on in the next special or general election, that would prohibit corporations such as Nestle and Coca-Cola from extracting water from the local aquifer. But this is only the beginning. The ordinance would also ban energy-giant PG&E, and any other corporation, from...

...David Butcher What makes a religious space feel holy? Is it the deep, loving relationships among congregants? Here, worshippers engage in the “laying on of hands” during a Pentecostal ordination service in the United Kingdom. ...

... ty does not allow women’s ordination or men and women to sit together in worship, you know that it sees itself as the last distinctive holdout against a chaotic culture lacking in boundaries...

..., but on the issue of equality they were clear. Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder, and apparently a brutal master, but he not only wrote the Declaration, he also sponsored the Ordinance of 1784 (outlawing slavery north of the Ohio River), which was ratified as the famous Northwest Ordinance by the first Congress...

... Rabbi," the essay’s author, Rabbi Steven Greenberg, insisted on insisted Greenberg, Steven Rabbi essay’sRabbi," the author, LGBT how-recalling rights, support to gays community and Jews Jewish the on calling broadly, more and, stance gay ordination...

... in the implementation of its values, and not in the land per se: “keep My statutes and Mine ordinances and do not any of the abominationsso that the Land vomit you not out (Lev. 18:27-8). The deep linkage between values and space or terri­ tory is obvious in that the Bible makes its...

... Richmond Refinery fire, pictured above. Photo by Nick Fullerton. We recently achieved a new victory by introducing a Rent Control and Just Cause for Eviction ordinance to protect tenants in Richmond. As with all our victories, this did not fall from the sky. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication...

... ordination as priests. integrity and destructive righteousness; your character and demeanor seem wholly capable of guiding us across this edge and leading us back toward the necessity of asserting our American...

... of procession. Y She looked around at all the torn flesh. It was all still bleeding and maybe it would bleed forever. It occurred to her that they could wind all the sheets together, make a rope of them, or an altar. X Within weeks the city had passed an ordinance against bloody sheets...

... industry has done to too many people.” Meanwhile, the statewide Texas Baptist organization, Catholic Bishops, and other faith leaders began to work to secure local ordinances designed to rein in payday lenders’ most egregious terms. Years later, Rev. Dr. Freddy Haynes III, pastor of Friendship West...

... of justice and love? The questions are not new to me, but they are unfortunately still pressing. With one year remaining before rabbinic ordination at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, I decided to take a year’s leave of absence (1966–67) to explore these questions...

... these essentialist arguments don’t reflect reality. Moreover, they fective in the world. As transgender Rabbi Reuben Zellman re­ discount the power of choice. minded us at his ordination service this May, liberal religious Often people say, “If sexuality were a choice, why would I institutions save queer lives...

... is also the downs unless they can show that they are “tough-minded”—and movement in which I received my rabbinical ordination. I articu­ that translates into rejecting anything spiritual or the language of lated a version of this view in my book Jewish Renewal (Putnam, love, caring...

... that Islam was the Rod of God sent to purge Christianity, saw his resistance against the Turks as un-Christian, and against God’s ordination and design. Rather, Luther endorsed a military response against the Turks, c.f. the Türkenbüchlein —the Turkish writings. He describes the opponents in On War Against...

... describes a critical moment in his spiritual development: After immigrating to the United States in 1941, he studied in the Habad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York for several years. Even before completing his ordination process, he was dispatched in 1946 by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef...

... of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.” Jesus tells his disciples to look beyond appearances and know people by their actions, not by their words.atthew 7:16...