Jul 13 2012
Woody Guthrie at 100: the return of a pariah By Billy Bragg, Thursday 12 July 2012 16.30 EDT The construction team that kept hammering away all night outside my hotel window in downtown Tulsa are gone by the morning, the fierce glare of the Oklahoma summer forcing them into the shade to rest. A …
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Jul 06 2012
10 reasons Why Men Should Not Be Ordained For Ministry By Eugene Cho, 04-30-2012 4:34pm In light of some recent intense posts – Ultimate Fighting Jesus and Conversation with Rob Bell (re: women in ministry), this list is too funny not to share. But the brutal fact is that the matter of gender violence …
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Jul 06 2012
Ten Cliches Christians Should Never Use By Christian Piatt, 07-06-2012 9:03am We Christians have a remarkable talent for sticking our feet in our mouths. When searching the words most commonly associated with “Christian,” the list ain’t pretty. I think part of this can be attributed to a handful of phrases that, if stricken from our …
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Jul 06 2012
The Military Solution By Tom Engelhardt, 9:51AM, July 05, 2012 Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began. Certainly, a smaller percentage of us — less than 1% — serves in the military in this all-volunteer era of ours and, on the face of it, Washington’s constant …
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Jul 06 2012
Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016″: Feature-length Obama hate By Mariah Blake, Friday, Jul 6, 2012 06:45 AM CDT Dinesh D’Souza knows the value of a good controversy. After all, he has made a career of lobbing ideological hand grenades. In 2010, for instance, he published a book and an article in Forbes arguing that Barack Obama …
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Jul 05 2012
Religious right’s new rivals By Sarah Posner, Wednesday, Jul 4, 2012 03:30 PM CDT At the Iowa Republican State Convention earlier this month, Ron Paul supporters walked away with 23 of the 28 delegates headed to the Republican National Convention in August. This effort, which Paul enthusiasts also have pulled off in Minnesota, Maine …
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Jul 04 2012
Encountering Peace: Is my Zionist dream dead? By Gershon Baskin, 07/02/2012 21:13 I am really quite concerned. I see a great disaster about to unfold. I simply cannot understand why people are not shouting “don’t let this happen!” Where is the prime minister? Where are all of the Zionist leaders? Where is the world …
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