January 2012 archive
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Jan 05 2012
Another jolt of public affirmation
From Rick Santorum to Ted Haggard, reality TV answers celebrity prayers
By Becky Garrison, Thursday 5 January 2012 11.36 EST … Voters in Iowa have given Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum the green light to continue his surge.… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/01/05/another-jolt-of-public-affirmation/
Jan 05 2012
Pray away
Rick Santorum: bearer of the Christianist mantle
By Peter Beaumont, Thursday 5 January 2012 12.51 EST … Writing in 2003 the US columnist Andrew Sullivan coined a neologism “Christianist“. A Republican and Christian himself, what Sullivan meant… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/01/05/pray-away/
Jan 05 2012
Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley
Death of Topsy the Elephant (1903)
Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 … This morning we will be remembering the sad fate of Topsy the Elephant, who was put to death by electrocution for the murder of three.… [more]
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Jan 03 2012
Organising panda fights
Wife-beating? That’s fine – unless you’re a Muslim
By Mark Steel, Wednesday 09 July 2008 … The Sun newspaper has come over a bit modest. Following a Channel 4 documentary about media reporting of Muslims, the paper accepts some of… [more]
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Jan 03 2012
Much is at stake
The streets of 2012
By Naomi Wolf, 03 Jan 2012 14:59 … New York, NY – What does the New Year hold for the global wave of protest that erupted in 2011? Did the surge of anger that began… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/01/03/much-is-at-stake/
Jan 02 2012
Its own time and place
What Does The Book Of Revelation Really Mean?
By Greg Carey, 01/ 2/12 01:25 AM ET … This is the first installment of a three-part series. We’ve survived Harold Camping. We survived Y2K, albeit with less distress than our… [more]
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