2011 archive
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Apr 24 2011
Fascists using religion
Justifying a banishment
By Admiel Kosman, 12:02 24.04.11 … In one of the versions of the story of Hagar, Abraham holds a feast to celebrate the fact that Isaac has been weaned. At that event, as it is written in… [more]
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Apr 24 2011
A mere technocrat?
Obama’s Passover liberation theology
By Anna Hartnell, Sunday 24 April 2011 14.00 BST … Issued on Friday 15 April, ahead of this week’s Passover celebrations, Obama’s quietly radical Passover message embraced the explosive mix of religion, Middle East politics… [more]
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Apr 23 2011
Easter: hats, bunnies, eggs and hallelujah?
What’s good about Good Friday?
By Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, Friday, April 22, 2011 … The word “good” in “Good Friday” is actually an older way of saying “pious” or “holy.” In the Christian tradition, this is a holy day… [more]
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Apr 23 2011
If it bleeds it leads
Ghosts will haunt Libya for decades
By Patrick Cogburn, Sunday, 24 April 2011 … In Baghdad at the end of last year, Waled Hamid brought a peculiar court case against a man who had sold him a house. Mr Hamid… [more]
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Apr 23 2011
Megalomessianic meddling
300 Goats and Sheep, 20 Slaughterers, One Willful Rabbi
By Nathan Jeffay, April 13, 2011 (issue of April 22, 2011) Jerusalem — Making Seder for the extended family seems like child’s play compared with Rabbi Yehudah Glick’s Passover preparations. The… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/23/messianic-meddling/
Apr 20 2011
Defending Constantine
Church and Empire
By C.H.Featherstone, Thursday, March 17, 2011 … One of the things Pete Leithart is trying to do with his book, Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom, is to question… [more]
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