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For those keeping track of such things, the 2005 baby name stats are up on the Social Security website. Francis dropped two places in the rankings and now sits as the 527th most popular newborn boy's name in America, while Theodore crept up slightly to close at 305. Both names are still far from trendy. The big winner according to the New York Times is Nevaeh, a girls name made up of heaven spelt backwards; in only a few years it's come from nowhere to take slot 70 for the girls.

In this election, religious conservatives were able to craft a message making same-sex marriages look like an afront to apple pie and baseball and of course people voted against it. What if we could have somehow framed this election with the details of human suffering that these laws suggest?

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Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of Christ is a challenge for many modern Quakers. Most of the rich metaphors of co-mingled joy and suffering of the early Friends have been dumbed-down to feel-good cliches. Can the debate on this movie help us return to that uncomfortable place where we can acknowledge the complexities of being fervently religious in a world haunted by past sins and still in need of conviction and comfort?