Category: Christianity

The better they got…

Zajal on Arak By Zein El-Amine, Jan 26, 2015 I remember when electricity came to my village. I must have been about seven or eight. The government installed a transformer in the village center. The thing was housed in a metal locker. The villagers called it ‘The Clock.’ At first, The Clock was a thing …

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Turning Christianity into Cross-tianity

Another Jim Palmer Facebook Post August 28, 2023   “You can’t pin Christianity on Jesus. It’s not his fault. Christianity is Paul’s burden to bear, with a little help from the earliest church councils. In my view, Jesus and Paul would have not gotten along well, and Jesus would have been dismayed by many of …

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Another obituary

Dr. Jim Ragland, of Allen, Texas, died September 24, 2023 at the age of 99. He was born in Ada, Oklahoma in 1924 to James Jordan Ragland and Zelda Keithley Ragland. He was preceded in death by his wife of almost 70 years, Leola Lee Ragland, his parents, and his sister JoAnn Craddick. He is …

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Before there was Trump

Is This the End of Bibi? By David Remnick, July 22, 2023   Netanyahu’s coalition of zealots, the resistance in the streets, and the Israeli Kulturkampf. Benjamin Netanyahu has been Prime Minister of Israel longer than anyone in the history of the state, longer than F.D.R. was President of the United States. And yet, for …

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Death in a dying town

How Rural America Steals Girls’ Futures By Monica Potts, April 6, 2023   “Boy crazy” was what people called it. “She was so boy crazy,” I would hear about my girlfriends. I never heard the reverse, that a boy was “girl crazy.” Girls having crushes, sneaking out at night to have fun: It seems innocent …

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When a tangled web woven unravels

1950s U.S. Foreign Policy Looms Large in Lebanon By Jacob Boswell, July 29, 2022   The Cold War may be over, but the legacy of containment looms large over Lebanon. For decades, the U.S. has been the single largest financial supporter of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), in a bid to balance Iran’s influence in …

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American Moloch

The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America By Kurt Andersen, January 25, 2022   In the early phases of the pandemic, as the coronavirus spread in the United States and doctors and pharmacists and supermarket clerks continued to work and risk infection, some commentators made reference—metaphorical reference, fast and loose and over the top—to …

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