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There are times when Benedict's love affair with American religious pluralism seems a bit naive, especially when it clashes with his nonnegotiable doctrinal stands. Without Roots had wonderful things to say about Protestantism as the genius of American religiosity and burnished the alliance between Catholic conservatives and American Evangelicals against abortion. But in 2000 and more acidly in 2007 (after he became Pope), the Vatican released documents describing Protestant churches as suffering from ecclesiastical "defects," adding that "it is difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly be attributed to them." Some of Benedict's new allies...
Last November, Bowman played at a festival in Lahore during Pakistan's six-week state of emergency. He knew better than to tackle either President Pervez Musharraf or the Prophet Muhammad onstage, but found his show resonated with an audience used to seeing their countrymen locked up under antiterror laws...
But Bowman also has a big Christian fan base. He's been invited to stage the show in various American churches; in Boston, seven Protestant ministers came backstage to congratulate him on its "profoundly Christian message." "A lot of Christians are so resentful that Bush is hijacking the language of...
The deeper issue, as the Dalai Lama always stresses, is that names and forms are unimportant so long as something more fundamental is sustained. The Buddha's job-and therefore that of his most prominent contemporary student-was not just to be clear-sighted and compassionate but also to show...
Merritt's conversion may not change the world quite as much as Paul's, but he has transformed his classroom epiphany into Topic A within his own Convention, the biggest Protestant body in the U.S. with 16 million members - and probably one of the least involved of the American religious...