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Fun in Regensburg

April 27, 2008

I’m back and healthy again (I had one butt-kicking cold, Oliver had a runny nose for two days – thank goodness for breastfeeding!).  Spring has finally come, plus we had our monthly Regensburg meetup today – brunch did not prove all that popular in the end, so we’ll probably stick to dinners in the future, [...]

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In The News: Religion, Diet, Racism, and Sport

September 16, 2006

Faith and Reason?During a recent speech at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI made a comment that has inflamed the Muslim world. In a discussion about how faith and reason can coexist, he mentions a religious dialogue that took place between the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian around 1391: In [...]

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Terrorism and Islam

September 6, 2004

I’m happy to notice that the major news outlets now make mention of the attack on Russia on their homepages. Furthering my earlier discussion of religious extremism, there have been some surprising reactions to the attack in Russia by Middle Eastern newspapers and clerics. Here are some excerpts from a CNN article: “Our terrorist sons [...]

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