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		<title>Accursed land</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a new one. Former GOP presidential nomination frontrunner Rick Perry has come under some heat for his unconventional and frankly disturbing religious associations. These go beyond the typical guilt by association that plagues politicians who may have encountered some fringe figures in their spiritual pursuits, like Obama&#8217;s close association with the controversial and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=575&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fascinating</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than obsess on some apparent contradictions here about modesty, viewing the female body, and how competitive weightlifting is judged, I think this story should best be viewed as demonstrating the at-times remarkable elasticity of secular spaces when inclusiveness is an active virtue. Even so, given that cultural forces governing the female body &#8211; gendered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=556&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mosaic law and American courts</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2011/06/23/mosaic-law-and-american-courts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The notion that the 10 Commandments are the font or foundation of our contemporary legal code is largely Christianist wishful thinking. And the movement to monument-ize the twin tablets representing Moses&#8217;s transmission of the commandments comes off pretty much as cultural bullying carried out by a rather slim segment of fundamentalist Christians. This article, though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=481&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embassytown, part 2 and City of Glass: Natural languages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished Embassytown a little while ago, and although I don&#8217;t think I found the second half quite as enjoyable as the setup, it was still well worth the read, as a science fiction novel and as an experimentation in the literary representation of theories of language. Spoilers are certain to follow, so if you&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=531&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Headscarves and soccer</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2011/06/13/headscarves-and-soccer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting controversy. And a ridiculous decision on the part of FIFA, the international governing body of professional soccer &#8211; well, football as they call it. Basically, just before the Iranian women&#8217;s team was set to play an Olympic qualifying match against Jordan last week, they were disqualified for wearing uniforms that might cause the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=485&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I gotta say, I agree with this call.</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2011/05/29/i-gotta-say-i-agree-with-this-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 03:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I can&#8217;t really claim any expertise in the appropriate application of the Constitution&#8217;s establishment clause, but as a supporter  and critic of secularism, I do have my sympathies for certain directions in its application. And so I find the court right in its determination here. The case concerns efforts by the Department of Veterans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=466&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I find this sort of thing enormously encouraging.</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2011/05/24/i-find-this-sort-of-thing-enormously-encouraging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 00:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The resilience in forcing the subject of an incremental progressive change and the adept use of social media in ensuring that the message is clearly and consistently in view throughout the media coverage are both laudable. Manal al-Sherif has been arrested, released, and then re-arrested for attempting to drive as a woman in Saudi Arabia. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=457&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islam, secularism, and liberalism (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2011/04/19/islam-secularism-and-liberalism-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s part one. And sadly I think there will need to be a part 3. Plus an additional post specifically on the whole Sharia law paranoia that&#8217;s gripped the imagination of the not-particularly-intelligent-or-imaginative. The whole thing is so long, and the arguments against Islam addressed so baseless, that you may very well want to wait [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=426&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islam, secularism, and liberalism (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2011/04/10/islam-secularism-and-liberalism-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the core values of liberalism is the notion of free speech, a notion which has a deep historical association with the freedom of conscience and worship. Indeed, secularism – and by secularism here, I mean the notion that each person should be free to follow the dictates of conscience – can and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=417&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Thursday</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2010/04/02/holy-thursday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is William Blake&#8217;s &#8220;Holy Thursday&#8221; from Songs of Innocence: ’Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean The children walking two &#38; two in red &#38; blue &#38; green Grey headed beadles walk’d before with wands as white as snow Till into the high dome of Pauls they like Thames waters flow O [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=331&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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