Nov 22 2011
How to Shrink Your Church By Tim Suttle, 11/21/11 09:00 AM ET … Pastors and churches spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year attending conferences, buying books, hiring consultants, advertisers and marketers, all to try and accomplish one thing: to increase attendance — to be a bigger church. I’m absolutely convinced this is the …
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Nov 21 2011
Why Iceland Should Be in the News But Is Not By Deena Stryker, August 25 2011 … An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, …
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Nov 20 2011
Occupy Portland Protester Pepper Sprayed In The Face By Dean Praetorius, 11/19/11 02:03 PM ET … In recent days pepper spray has become almost synonymous with the Occupy movement. Most recently this photo, which is quickly becoming an iconic image from the movement, has gone viral. It shows Occupy Portland protester Elizabeth Nichols getting hit …
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Nov 20 2011
A historical precedent that might prove a bonus for Occupy Wall Street By Nicolaus Mills, Saturday 19 November 2011 12.00 EST … This Tuesday’s pre-dawn destruction of the Zuccotti Park encampment of Occupy Wall Street by New York City police in riot gear has been seen by some as a serious defeat for the movement. …
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Nov 20 2011
Is pizza a vegetable? Well, Congress says so By Lizz Winstead, Friday 18 November 2011 10.21 EST … Hey, America! The GOP is, yet again, looking out for you. This week, Congress took a break from voting to make sure none of your tax dollars will go to all those abortion clinics NPR wants to …
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Nov 19 2011
The Occupy movement now has its iconic image of martyrdom By Jonathan Jones, Friday 18 November 2011 09.01 EST … Every nascent political movement needs martyrs. Even the sensible British labour movement, whose history is mostly peaceful and overwhelmingly parliamentary, has its memories of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the Peterloo massacre. Revolutionary traditions fervently venerate …
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Nov 18 2011
‘Obama the Antichrist’ and end-times doctrine By Sarah Posner, Friday 18 November 2011 14.29 EST … Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a 21 year old from Idaho Falls, Idaho was charged this week with attempting to assassinate Barack Obama by firing rifle shots at the presidential residence at the White House. The president, Ortega-Hernandez reportedly maintained, is …
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