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  • Look at history of marriage
    Last Saturday several hundred people gathered near the Country Club Plaza to protest the vote in California against gay marriage.

  • I need to change, and I need to be forgiven (a lot)
    There’s this David Mamet movie I like called “State and Main.” It’s about a small town that gets overrun with the filming of a movie and all the upheaval that causes. There’s a great line in it that goes, “The only second chance you get in life is the chance to make the same mistake twice.”

  • City on a hill for others to see
    The idea that America is special, “a city on a hill,” is often associated with a right-wing Christian perspective that God has chosen the United States for special blessings.

  • Cinema churches want people who have left the pews back in the seats
    When the medieval church wanted to communicate the biblical narratives to a largely illiterate society, it used stained-glass windows to illustrate the stories.

  • What aspect of your faith do you find most difficult to explain?
    Arvind Khetia, engineer and a Hindu: To an outsider, Hinduism may look complex and confusing. However, it is a rational religion based on the spiritual philosophy of the Vedas. Hinduism’s spiritual wisdom, known as Vedanta, is given in the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita.