Thanksgiving, Plus : Review of the Week

Thanksgiving

• Smackdown!: Thanksgiving show stuffed with Tag Team action, CANOE
• Black Friday: Why Canada should not copy the U.S. MetroNews Canada
• NFL Picks: The Detroit Lions deserve a happy Thanksgivin, National Post
• Here's your definitive Thanksgiving weekend marathon guide, Entertainment Weekly
• Dozens of US retailers opened on Thanksgiving through Black Friday CTV News
• A Thanksgiving that forgets nobody, Sentinel and Enterprise
• Buddhism and Sikhism - a Thanksgiving Day Reflection by Prof. Amritjit Singh:

This is part of what I wrote this morning to a friend – some of it may interest you.  Happy Thanksgiving,  Amrit 

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Happy Thanksgiving to you and to so many of God's creatures (humans not excluded) that you share your love with.  [Take my reference to God with a grain of salt. I am an agnostic by choice – I don't say "agnostic by faith or conviction" becos that would be a contradiction.] 




BTW, I am one of those agnostics, those Lefties if you like, who as a non-believer, recognizes that billions of humans around the world get their moral sustenance from their distinct faiths and that when the Marxists dismiss all religions as specimens of false consciousness and refuse to engage with faith communities, they make a big mistake.  The Lefties also allow the fanatics within each faith tradition to go unchallenged.  All of us then face the consequences.  




Am reading an interesting book on Buddhism – Pankaj Mishra's An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World.  He argues that Buddhism nudges us in the direction of meditation and mindfulness in order to resolve our individual personal struggles with human suffering (indeed the focus of Buddha's thought and meditations) and has little to say on issues of social justice in larger circles of society and politics.  I have been thinking at the same time of Sikhism, the faith in which I nominally grew up – my Dad was also a skeptic of sorts although not an agnostic.  Sikhism, in contrast, is a project in social engineering – an unending struggle for social justice and for First Amendment rights in their largest connotations.  Meditation at the personal, individual level is not forgotten in Sikhism – but living fully and actively with an awareness of issues that affect family and community is at the heart of the Sikh way of life.  And in some of those ways, I am a Sikh all right.  




That is the burden of my song on Thanksgiving Day (also Hanukah today! - a rare coincidence).  Sorry to insist on making you my captive audience for a few minutes!!

Miscellany:

•  US Sikhs launch smartphone app to report abuse at airports NDTV
• Gap's Ad With Sikh Model Waris Ahluwalia Defaced With Racist Graffiti, Drawing Incredible Response From Company... huffingtonpost.com
• LETTER: Full-time spiritual care practitioner needed at ARHCC
• I Can Only Hope God Has Mercy on Sex-Offending Clergy, by  Diane Weber Bederman, huffingtonpost.ca
• Meditation an effective way to improve performance South China Morning Post
• “Philosophy-to-Go!”: Meditation on a Green Bean Casserole
• Can Mindfulness Meditation Really Reduce Pain and Suffering by 90%
• I meditate on food to curb my rages, says Heston AFL.com.au
• Conservationists connect with faith community The Tribune
• Outreach groups reconsidering approach to dual-faith families, Heritage Florida Jewish News

Judge invokes Bible, Quran on ‘sacred’ life

TNN | Nov 26, 2013, 07.25 AM ISTIn his 204-page order, the judge leaned heavily on holy books and edicts to disapprove of the parents' actions. "They have extirpated their own daughterwho had hardly seen 14 summers of her life and the servant... in the breach of the commandment 'thou shall not kill' and injunction of Holy Quran'take not life which God has made sacred'," he observed. 
... "Dharmo rakshati rakshitaha (If we protect dharma, dharma will protect us). If we protect the law, the law will protect us. Both the accused have flouted the penal law of the land and therefore are liable to be convicted for murder, destruction of evidence and having common intention to commit the crime," the judge added.  Continue reading

Faithwise/Culturewise Review of the Week

• Saturday Thought: Interfaith Week By Plymouth Herald  
• Jewish-Muslim Outreach In Vienna, Courtesy Of New York Interfaith Activists Rabbi Marc  Schneier And Imam Shamsi Ali Huffington Post
• Holy Gosh: We Interviewed/ Tried To Seduce @RobDelaney @ 10 Thought Catalog Posts You Should Have Read This Week
• 10 Popular Myths About Bartenders @ 10 Thought Catalog Posts You Should Have Read This Week
• 27 Bizarre Things That All Women Have Done At Least Once @ 10 Thought Catalog Posts You Should Have Read This Week   
• Thought for the Week: Leadership Includes Morality - Leadership ...
• Thought for the week - A good work ethic is a must in home business ...
• Faith Core Series - Week 6 - Transformation of Thought - YouTube 
• Parashat Haazinu – Liberal Judaism Thought for the Week |
• FW: 'Thought for the Week' - Swami Tejomayananda.
• Thought of the Week Archive, Office of the Chaplain
• David Hartman's Legacy To Jewish Life, Religious Thought 
• Belief: Leadership Thought of the Week | Veterinary Team Brief 
• Resource of the Week: Black Thought and Culture | OHIO University ...  
• Islamic Thought of the Week: Islam and Kids (Part 2) - YouTube 
• Week of thought-provoking, entertaining shows... Cinema - The Hindu 
• Jew Tube Thought For the Week, Passover - Matzah - YouTube  
• A week late, but still thought I'd... - Confessions of a Pagan Soccer ...  
• Opera Singer Explains Tattoo Thought to Be Swastika - NYTimes.com 
• Interfaith Thanksgiving service planned
• Interfaith creche exhibits to be held this Christmas season   
• What Is God Doing in Philippines? Huffington Post (blog)-by Mike Ghouse-

New on the Spiritual Web Shelves - A select list of books

• Playing with Religion in Digital Games (Digital Game Studies) Gregory P. Grieve
• Exploring Religious Community Online: We are One in the Network (Digital Formations) Heidi Campbell
• Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds Digital Religion Heidi A. (EDT) Campbell
• iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives Craig Detweiler
• Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures (Digital Formations) Pauline Hope Cheong
• The Digital Puritan - Vol.III, No.3 John Bunyan
• Byte Religion Christian Kirtchev
• Cyber Meltdown: Bible Prophecy and the Imminent Threat of Cyberterrorism Ron Rhodes
• Cyber Religion: An entry from MACM's Contemporary American Religion Brenda E. Brasher
• 13 Blasphemies: Cyber Attack on the Holy Bible S.R. Smith
• Religion and the Internet - current cult fundamentalist Cyber ??religion ( Internet Society) (1998) ISBN: 4000262742 [Japanese Import] Tosa Masaki
• Religion on the Internet (Religion and the Social Order) (Religion and the Social Order) (Vol 8) Jeffrey K. Hadden
• Cyber Evangelism Esther Ogbonda
• Cyber With Me God (First Edition) Lee Vosloo
• iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks) Gary R. Bunt
• Digital Amen: A Look into the New Cyber Congregation S. Antonio Moffett
• CyberQuest: The Complete Virtual Adventure Sigmund Brouwer
• eMinistry - Virtual Pathways for Spiritual Leadership: Taking Evangelism into the Cyber Frontier Rev. Dr. Lauren Speeth
• Cyber Snoop Nation: The Adventures Of Littanie Webster, Sixteen-Year-Old Genius Private EyeOn Internet Radio Anne Hart
• Saved In Cyber-Space: How One Man Found Salvation On-line & How the Internet Can Bring Christ to the Entire Planet Matthew Long
• Japanese Religions on the Internet: Innovation, Representation, and Authority (Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture) Erica Baffelli
• The First Cyber Death Extravaganza!: A Mock Passion Play Scott Douglas
• Super Cyber Box Scope and Sequence First Quarter: Cyber Wars, 7 Weeks of Fighting to Win Over the Enemy, Satan 6 Weeks of Faith, Responsibility, Self Charisma Life Publishers 

Costco Apologizes for Labeling Bibles as Fiction

A California pastor tweeted a picture of the label to his congregation

By Denver Nicks @DenverNicksNov. 20, 2013 TIME.com

Christian News Networkhttp://christiannews.net/2013/11/21/costco-apologizes-for-distributors-mistake-of-labeling-bibles-as-fiction/

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – The wholesale retailer Costco has issued an apology after a pastor in California Tweeted a photograph of a Bible at his local store being marked as “fiction.”

On Friday, Pastor Caleb Kaltenbach of Discovery Church posted the photo on Twitter after shopping for a gift for his wife at his Simi Valley Costco.

“Costco has Bibles for sale under the genre of fiction,” he wrote above a photograph of a Bible with a “$14.99 fiction” label. “Hmmmm….”

Kaltenbach told local television station KTLA-5 that he attempted to obtain information about the label after noticing the issue.

Heavenly Bodies: Relics of Catholic Saints - in pictures

"As the Vatican prepares to display bones it believes to be those of St Peter, we explore an amazing series of jewelled saints' remains from southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The skeletons were found in 1578 when some of the catacombs of Rome were opened up, containing the remains of the city's early Christian community. Over the next couple of hundred years, some of the skeletons, identified as saints' remains, were sent north across the Alps to replace relics destroyed in the Protestant Reformation. To mark their newfound status, they were festooned with an extraordinary assortment of jewels, cloth of gold and other precious fabrics, and are still objects of veneration. Paul Koudounaris tracked them down for his book Heavenly Bodies..."  continue reading Guardian

on the same shelf:

• Heavenly Bodies Cynthia Huntington
• Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society Richard Dyer
• The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses   Paul Koudounaris
• Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Bodycare for Every Body Dina Falconi
• Heavenly Bodies David Vance

Where is the "Muslim World"? Professor Tony McEnery

"What is the Muslim world? At TEDxLancasterU, linguist Tony McEnery argues that this phrase, which was used 11,000 times in articles discussing Islam written from 1998 to 2009 by the British press, highlights an unsettling trend in the media -- using language that characterizes Muslims as violent and unusual -- a trend that, as he shows, has a long history and he asks us to change...."


On the same shelf (British media):

• New report highlights abuse of Muslim women

• Giving and campaigning in the Muslim charitable sector by Mohammad Zaman

• The evolution of British Islamic activism, by Sadek Hamid

• Muslim chaplains in British public life, by Sophie Gilliat-Ray

• Challenging supremacist ideology in Islam, by Tehmina Kazi

• The case of True Religion v. truereligion.com: Muslim website owner says he has faith court will protect him

• Atheists challenge churches’ free parking permits

Bless atheists, for they have sinned

by Emma Teitel on Friday, November 15, 2013, macleans.ca

Extract:

The door-to-door religious proselytizer is, like his secular cousin the Cutco knife peddler, a harmless irritant of modern North American life. If you don’t care for his wares, you say no thanks, shut the door and sometimes roll your eyes. But you rarely, if ever, engage. Portland University philosophy professor and proud atheist Peter Boghossian not only advocates engaging religious fundamentalists in debate, he has written the manual on how to do so.

His new book, A Manual for Creating Atheists, could be called the bible of deconversion.  Continue reading.

There can be no goodwill if we only tolerate each other

Dear Friends and Family, Greetings on Guru Nanak's Birthday!
I thought this message from Judge Mota Singh of UK might interest some of you. Amritjit Singh

The message is written by His Honour Sir Judge Mota Singh QC, a former Crown Court judge in the UK, who has received many lifetime achievement awards. He has been an advisor to the non-profit organization "United Sikhs" for Sikhs' Right To Turban campaign under which we won three cases at the UN against France’s ban on the turban in schools and on ID photo documents...

"Sikh  spiritual tradition is not content with mere toleration. There can be no goodwill if we only tolerate each other. Many thinkers rebuke the habit of condescending toleration. We must appreciate all faiths, recognise that they offer rich spiritual experiences and encourage sacrificial living and inspire their followers to a nobler way of life. The Sikh Gurus had this noble quality of appreciation of whatever was valuable in other religious traditions. The more we understand one another, the more we find we are like one another..." continue reading SikhSiyasat.Net

On the same shelf:

• The Surprising Pope: Understanding the Thought of John Paul II (Religion, Politics, and Society in the New Millennium)   O.P. Zieba Maciej  -- "What kind of brothers and sisters in Christ would we have if we only tolerate each other? To "bear one another up in love" means more than to tolerate." (p. 149)
• My Path to World Faith & Love at Home, by Frankie Fredericks, Executive Director of World Faith "After studies in Greece and Italy, I went to Egypt to explore Christian-Muslim relations through independent research. Witnessing how mere coexistance and tolerance will never create greater community and understanding, rather than finding answers, I began discovering
  new questions.  If we only tolerate each other, how can we create a space where religious identity is no longer a source of divisiveness?"
• Tolerance in Islam (Lessons from history), By: Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall.  "There is no doubt but that, in the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. Let no Muslim, when looking on the ruin of the Muslim realm which was compassed through the agency of those very peoples whom the Muslims had tolerated and protected through the centuries when Western Europe thought it a religious duty to exterminate or forcibly convert all peoples of another faith than theirs - let no Muslim, seeing this, imagine that toleration is a weakness in Islam. It is the greatest strength of Islam because it is the attitude of truth. Allah is not the God of the Jews or the Christians or the Muslims only, any more than the sun shines or the rain falls for Jews or Christians or Muslims only."           

Who is the most talked about person on the Internet, 2013?

By Lindsay Jolivet | Daily Buzz 

Extract:

Pope Francis, a pontiff that has made viral newsposing with teens for selfies and kissing the disfigured head of a sick man, was the most talked about person this year, according to Global Language Monitor (GLM).

The Texas-based organization released its annual list of top words, names and phrases based on analysis last week, and it placed the popular pope at the top of its list of proper names.

Pope Francis has been hailed as "the people's pontiff," a man who has removed emphasis on controversial issues such as the LGBT community and abortion, and touched people personally. The papal office's Twitter handle,@pontifex, was also fourth on GLM's list of top words of 2013, falling below "404," the code for a webpage failing to load, "Fail" and "Hashtag."

Identifying the major topics to find Internet resources on Muslims and Islam

"Religion is not just for churches, synagogues or mosques anymore -- it's a topic that is being actively searched for online, according to researchers at Penn State." (Web Searches for Religious Topics On the Rise, sciencedaily.com)

The purpose, here, is to identify and list major topics that relate to finding religion-online (aka faith-based web searches), example: Muslims and Islam. 

In short, the spiritual web has many resources (good, best and not so good) that are used for religious purposes. Here is a sample of topics that relate to Muslim and / or Islamic resources:

• Basic 101 - Iman (knowing), Islam (practicing), Ihsan (experiencing)
• Prayer / space location / direction / time (obligatory prayers)
• Fasting date and timing / Do's Don'ts
• Charity (obligatory = Zakat), other helping aids
• Hajj date and timing / Do's Don'ts
• Festival / celebration: date and timing
• Meditation / Zikr (other than obligatory prayers)
• Quran, recitation / Adhan / Hymns (Naat)
• Learning Islam: How to worship, how to resolve everyday situations 
• History, biography, Life of the Prophet Mohammed and his companions
• Law (jurisprudence), schools, sources, etc.
• Finding an expert / alim / Scholar / Imam
• Cultural matters (dress, diet, etc.) communities, etc. 
• Language based resources (Quran: translation and interpretation; Hadith, Fiqh, etc) 
• Necessities of daily life: housing, jobs, Halal and legal avenues, inheritance, wealth management, family life, marriage, birth, death, etc.
• Movements, groups, ideologies, etc.
• News, events, etc.

NOTE: If you want to see the websites on some of the above themes, then you have to look at my book in your library (using WorldCat), or order  from Amazon or Publisher:

Cyber Worship Resource for World Prayers

Here is a sample from inside the Book: Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives--full of resources that will facilitate building bridges in a Multifaith society. Table of Contents / Reviews

Chapter 1. 1. Cyber Worship/Meditation Webwise: Noah, Abraham and Beyond 

 Chapter 2. 'Cyber Worship As-Is On the Web'

On the same shelf:  

• Key Themes for the Study of Islam
  Jamal J. Elias (2010, ISBN 9781851687107)  [Contents: Art / Kishwar Rizvi -- Authority / Devin DeWeese -- Belief / R. Kevin Jacques -- Body / Shahzad Bashir -- Community / Ahmet T. Karamustafa -- Culture / Michael Cooperson -- Death / Amila Buturovic -- Gender / Kelly Pemberton -- God / Jamal J. Elias -- History / Snjezana Buzov -- Institution / Joseph E. Lowry -- Law / A. Kevin Reinhart -- Modernity / Bruce B. Lawrence -- Prayer / Shawkat M. Toorawa -- Prophecy / Devin Stewart -- Ritual / Amina M. Steinfels -- Text / İrvin Cemil Schick -- War / Sohail H. Hashmi -- Word / Walid A. Saleh. ] -- Other possible Islamic themes (potential keywords): Allah, fiqh, hadith, iman, islam, jihad, kitab, mithaq, nabi, qadr, Quran, salat, sharia, sufi, sunna, tawhid. umma (p. 4); prayer, fasting, alms-giving, judgement (p. 4); 
• Major Themes of the Qur'an: Second Edition, by Fazlur Rahman
  Chapter One : God
  Chapter Two : Man as Individual
  Chapter Three: Man in Society
  Chapter Four: Nature
  Chapter Five: Prophethood and Revelation
  Chapter Six : Eschatology
  Chapter Seven: Satan and Evil
  Chapter Eight: Emergence of the Muslim Community
  Appendix I: The Religious Situation of the Muslim Community in Mecca
  Appendix II: The People of the Book and Diversity of Religions
  
• Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective, by John Renard
  Part I. Historical Dimensions: Interpreting God's Communication and Divine Engagement in Time and Space
  1. Sacred Sources and Community Origins; 2. Development and Spread
  Part II. Creedal Dimensions: Faith and the Development of Theology as a Religious Discipline
  3. From Story to Creed; 4. The Emergence of Theological Disciplines
  Part III. Institutional Dimensions: The Structures of Theologically Grounded Community
  5. Beneath the Brick and Mortar; 6.Institutions in Action
  Part IV. Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions: Mapping Outward and Inward Journeys of Faith
  7. Sources, Methods, and Social Values in Theological Ethics; 8. Sources and Models in Traditions of Spirituality; 9. Themes in Prayer and Mystical Theology
  Epilogue: Reflections on the Prospects for Christian-Muslim Theological Dialogue
  
• Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader, by John Renard (Editor) CONTENTS:
  Part One: The Science of Interpretation: Reading the Sacred Sources
  1 Qur'an and Hadith; 2 Interpreting the Sacred Sources
  Part Two: The Science of Community: Mapping the Boundaries of True Belief
  3 Muslim Awareness of Other Religious Communities; 4 Creed and Polemic
  Part Three : The Science of Divine Unity: Schools and Themes in Systematic Theology
  5 Theological Schools and Principles; 6 Major Themes in Systematic Theology
  Part Four : The Science of Hearts: Spirituality and Literature
  7 Knowledge and the Spiritual Quest; 8 Poetic, Pastoral, and Narrative Theology
  Part Five: The Science of Character and Comportment: Ethics and Governance
  9 Ethics in Theory; 10 Ethics in Practice
  
• Yahoo Topics/Categories:

• http://classifile.com

Jay Lakhani : HINDUISM and Quantum Phenomenon of Physics : Lecture

Jay Lakhani : HINDUISM, Nature, Science and QUANTUM Physics - YouTube

Material errors, In arguing that quantum physics challenges the materialist view of the world, Jay Lakhani gets his science wrong, says Mano Singham

 On the same shelf:

• Science vs. Scripture and the Difference Between Curiosity and Wonder via Brain Pickings
• Prayer Is Good Medicine
• Religion and the 50th Anniversary of Sputnik I
• Information Seeking Behavior of the Believers
• Fifty Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
• Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between
• MUSIC and SPIRITUALITY: Faith-based Resources

Big business embraces meditation, Montreal Gazette

BY DONNA NEBENZAHL

Extract:

At Google’s high-tech offices in California’s Silicon Valley, silent “mindful lunches” are on offer, along with a labyrinth for walking meditation. A full-time mindfulness coach has led more than 1,000 employees through Search Inside Yourself training, which includes meditation practice.

At cutting-edge businesses like Google, Facebook and Twitter, meditation is the new caffeine, writes Wired magazine contributing editor Noah Shactman, whose recent feature examined how meditation and mindfulness are thriving in company culture, albeit in an unusual new way. Here, “entrepreneurs and engineers are taking millennia-old traditions and reshaping them to fit the Valley’s goal-oriented, data-driven, largely atheistic culture.” continue reading

Natural resources care and concern - Faith Based Resources

• To frack or not to frack: is that a Jewish question? jewishjournal.com " Did you know that fracking, the industrial process of extracting natural gas from shale rock is treif, that it violates Jewish values? Who knew? You could read the entire Torah, study the Mishnah andGemara too, go through the commentaries of the rationalistMaimonides and the more mystical Nachmanides, and review Joseph Caro’s Shulchan Aruch and you will never once see the technology discussed, much less the word uttered. And yet, there are Jewish individuals and organizations that insist that fracking is so contrary to Jewish values that it must be banned."
• Fracking and the cult of catastrophe, Thompson Citizen
• Fukishima, Humanity's Defining Moment Huffington Post
• Global Warming and the Ideology of Anthropogenic (Human Caused) Climate Change
• Sustainability: How Humans' Economy Differs from Natures'
• Imagining a Moral Economy for British Columbia, TheTyee.ca
• Shopaholism: Where does a Koshur consumer fit in?
• Is the rise of Islamic finance good news for the environment? Responding to Climate Change-by Nilima Choudhury
• ARC - Faiths and ecology - Alliance of Religions and Conservation - Faiths: Baha'i; Buddhism; ; Christianity; Confucianism; Daoism; Hinduism; Islam; Jainism; Judaism; Shintoism; Sikhism; Zoroastrianism
• Spiritual Fitness for Life : A social engineering approach, Elmasry, Mohamed
• Faith-based principles on actions of extractive industries
• Faith Based Education in Human Values for a sustainable future
• Resource Insights: Faith-based economics
• What does the Bible have to say about environmental concerns?
• Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability: Paradise Lost? (Consumption and Public Life) 
  Lyn Thomas
• What is Indigenous Knowledge?: Voices from the Academy (Indigenous Knowledge and Schooling) 
  Ladislaus M. Semali
• The Sacred Yew: Rediscovering the Ancient Tree of Life Through the Work of Allen Meredith (Arkana) 
  Anand Chetan
• Living by Water: True Stories of Nature and Spirit 
  Brenda Peterson
• A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance 
  Andy Couturier
• Intuition - The Path to Inner Wisdom: The Path to Inner Wisdom : A Guide to Discovering and Using Your Greatest Natural Resource 
  Patricia Einstein

Adultery in news and views

• Adultery website survey finds most cheaters believe in religion, consider infidelity 'a gift from God'
• Ashley Madison adultery website sued by former employee  -- "A dating website for married people who want to cheat on their spouses is being sued by a former employee who says she damaged her wrists typing up hundreds of fake profiles of sexy women."
• ‘He’s A Homewrecker’ website exposes cheating men
• Singapore blocks pro-adultery website  -- "Summary: Singapore blocks pro-adultery website, which goes by the slogan "Life is short. Have an affair", because it goes against the country's "family values and public morality".
• Singapore to block Canadian adultery website - The Times of India -- "Singapore's internet regulator will block access to infidelity website AshleyMadison.com following a public uproar over the Canada-based site's plan to offer a service in the Southeast Asian city-state.  ... Singapore bans Playboy magazine and blocks dozens of websites in what it has described as "a symbolic statement of the types of content which the community is opposed to".
• Polyamory gaining acceptance among country's latest generation  --“Polyamory: Having simultaneous close emotional relationships with two or more other individuals,” read their purple-lettered banner, embellished with an infinity heart.... Some polys hide their relationship from friends and family, fearing they could lose their homes or children. For many, religion was a common source of grief.... For some who were atheist, or practice paganism, being in a relationship with multiple people can seem even more unpalatable to people outside their religious or poly communities."
• Healing After Adultery - Beliefnet.com
• The Ten Commandments of Kosher Adultery - Beliefnet.com
• Easy Adultery - Beliefnet.com
• The Dangers of Head Sex and the Emotional Affair - Beyond Blue
• Bitter Truth On Marriage; Fake Lover 

  "God said: “Thou shalt not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14 KJV). Now, you are disobeying God.

  MEMORY VERSE: “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil. Cling to what is good” (Romans 12:9 NIV)

  PRAYER POINT: Create in me a clean heart, Oh God; and renew a right spirit within me in Jesus name. Amen."

Hospitality to strangers in Scriptures and religious sources

• A Biblical Ethic for the Treatment of Strangers and Aliens
• Loving the Stranger Among Us 
• "STRANGERS AND ALIENS" - University of Iowa  
• Strangeness and the Strangers - Mission Islam 

IN ISLAM'S TEMPLE STRANGERS ENTERED

Memory of the Neighbor: Islam and Its Forgotten Neighbors 

Strangers Among Us: The Critique of Westoxification in. Perso-Islamic Political Thought 

 Migrants and Strangers in an African City

Camus, The Stranger - Washington State University

Encountering the Stranger in Jewish, Muslim, & Christian Texts

Do Not Neglect to Show Hospitality to Strangers 

Hospitality in the Middle East - Santa Clara University 

Love your neighbor as yourself, Neighbors' privileges -- Select list of readings

How to Be a Perfect Stranger, 5th Ed: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook Arthur J. Magida

How to be a Perfect Stranger, Vol. 2: A Guide to Ettiquette in Other People's Religious Ceremonies Stuart and Arthur J. Magida (editors) Matlins

 How to Be a Perfect Stranger Vol. 1 : A Guide to Etiquette in Other People's Rel
Arthur J. (editor) Magida

Spiritual Care in Times of Disaster - Select Readings

• Disaster Spiritual Care: Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and National Tragedy  Stephen B. Roberts
• Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work
  Grant H. Brenner
• Disaster Mental Health: Theory and Practice  James Halpern
• Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work [Paperback] [2009] (Author) Grant H. Brenner, Daniel H. Bush, Joshua Moses
• Group's Emergency Response Handbook for Disaster Relief (Group's Emergency Response Handbooklet) Group Publishing
• Laugh Your Way to Grace: Reclaiming the Spiritual Power of Humor  Susan Sparks
• Professional Spiritual and Pastoral Care: A Practical Clergy and Chaplain's Handbook  Stephen B. Roberts
• In the Wake of Disaster: Religious Responses to Terrorism and Catastrophe  M.D. Harold G Koenig
• Conversation--The Sacred Art: Practicing Presence in an Age of Distraction (Walking Together, Finding the Way)  Diane M. Millis PhD
• Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement)  Robert A. Neimeyer
• The First 48 Hours: Spiritual Caregivers as First Responders  Jennifer S. Cisney
• Trauma and Transformation at Ground Zero: A Pastoral Theology  Storm Swain
• The Heartbeat of God: Finding the Sacred in the Middle of Everything  Katharine Jefferts Schori
• Helping Process: Assessment to Termination  Tricia McClam
• The Losses of Our Lives: The Sacred Gifts of Renewal in Everyday Loss  Nancy Copeland-payton
• The Trauma of Terrorism: Sharing Knowledge and Shared Care, An International Handbook
  Yael Danieli
• Life is Too Short: Stories of Transformation and Renewal After 9/11  Wendy Stark Healy
• Beyond the Mission: A Guide for Pastoral Counselors on Traumatic Stress in Missionary Relief Workers  Dr. Abel St. Amour
• God in the Raging Waters: Stories of Love And Service Following Hurricanes Katrina And Rita (Lutheran Voices)  Paul Blom
• Sit on Our Hands, or Stand on Our Feet?: Exploring a Practical Theology of Major Incident Response for the Evangelical Catholic Christian Community in the UK (West Theological Monographs)  Roger Philip Abbott
• Loss and Discovery: Responding to Grief with the Compassion of Christ and the Skills of All Gods People  Margaret Wesley
• Who Are the Real Chosen People?: The Meaning of Chosenness in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Center for Religious Inquiry)  Reuven Firestone
• Surviving 9/11: Impact and Experiences of Occupational Therapy Practitioners  Pat Precin
• Hearing the Call Across Traditions: Readings on Faith and Service  Adam Davis
• Catastrophic Crisis: Ministry Leadership in the Midst of Trial and Tragedy  Steve F. Echols