Apr 24 2011
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 and African American history that often fired, but also threatened to derail, his presidential bid. Obama’s …
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Apr 23 2011
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 that marks the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth by the Romans on Friday, April 3, in …
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Apr 23 2011
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 said the vendor failed to tell him that the house was haunted and was in …
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Apr 23 2011
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 New York-born Glick is getting ready to lead world Jewry in a Paschal sacrifice April …
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Apr 20 2011
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 Mennonite John Howard Yoder’s ideas on the “Constantinian Deal,” the arrangement between the church and the imperial …
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Apr 18 2011
Donald Trump: Potential president? By Cliff Schecter, 18 Apr 2011 11:48 … “Little Donnie Trump, the dumbest kid in the class.” This only somewhat facetious refrain was proffered on a day when Trump had said something particularly insane, by a friend of my parents who attended school with The Donald when they were just boys. …
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Apr 17 2011
In the Arab revolutions, echoes of a 100-year-old book By Todd Fine, Friday, April 15, 5:15 PM … A century before young men and women took to the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other parts of the Arab world, demanding a new way of life and a new kind of politics, there was young …
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