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...Judy Arko, 43, the logic behind Christian yoga is simple. "It gives me time alone with God," she says. "As a mom of two small kids, I don't get that--even in church...
...getting something out of it spiritually and physically, but it felt uncomfortable in that format," she says. So Bordenkircher prepared a vinyasa, or series of postures, with a biblical bent. Meditations focus on Jesus. She calls the sun salutation, a series of poses honoring the Hindu sun god, a "warm-up flow" instead; other Christians call it the "Son" salutation...
...strange mullah in their midst, preaching hatred. How did this hatemonger slip into paradise? Because of the Indian army, which has been in the valley to keep the Pakistani army out. Over the years, this army has left behind piles of junk: "Then one day by the grace of God the junk began to stir. It came to life and took on human form. The men who were miraculously born from these rusting worn metals, who went out into the valley to preach resistance and revenge were saints of an entirely new kind. They were the iron mullahs...
...evangelical Christian, I reject intelligent design because it is not science but bad theology. Within science, it is no crime to admit that we don't have all the answers. Within theology, however, it is a crime to use God as an excuse for our ignorance. If we don't understand how something came about in nature, then we ought to use the brains that God gave us to think about and work on the problem. Otherwise we turn God into a magic word to use whenever we can't figure things...
...beautiful, which leads to a review of the challenges that Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp made to the very idea of beauty. And that brings Kimmelman to reflect on the changing Western response to mountains--the Romans found them desolate, Martin Luther even thought they were part of God's punishment for man's fall--and how the dangers and hardship of a mountain trek, the very things that made mountains unappealing to earlier generations, were then reconceived by Immanuel Kant and by Romantic painters like Caspar David Friedrich into the shivery pleasures of "the terrifying sublime...