Feb 18 2012
The End of Church By Diana Butler Bass, 02/18/2012 7:50 am … Something startling is happening in American religion: We are witnessing the end of church or, at the very least, the end of conventional church. The United States is fast-becoming a society where Christianity is being reorganized after religion. In recent decades, untold numbers …
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Feb 18 2012
Anthony Shadid yearned for home By Jefferson Morley, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 5:42 PM 12:45:46 CST … Anthony’s Shadid’s now unbearably poignant book, “House of Stone,” opens with a scene of carnage that will be familiar to anyone who read his coverage of the wars of the Middle East. As a reporter for the Washington …
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Feb 18 2012
False accusations of antisemitism desensitise us to the real thing By Rachel Shabi, Friday 17 February 2012 09.11 EST … She hasn’t yet filled the post or filed a single line of copy, but the incoming New York Times correspondent for Jerusalem has already been judged. And it’s damning. Apparently, soon-to-be bureau chief Jodi Rudoren …
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Feb 18 2012
The US in a ‘dangerous state of funk’ By Ian Buruma, 18 Feb 2012 13:48 … The eccentric Bengali intellectual Nirad C Chaudhuri once explained the end of the British Raj in India as a case of “funk”, or loss of nerve. The British had stopped believing in their own empire. They simply lost the …
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Feb 16 2012
Freedom of religion is freedom from religion By Bill Moyers, Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 3:00 PM 18:46:13 CST … The president did something agile and wise the other day. And something quite important to the health of our politics. He reached up and snuffed out what some folks wanted to make into a cosmic battle …
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Feb 14 2012
Santorum mangles the Founding Fathers By Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 2:45 PM 20:36:56 CST … Each time presidential candidate Rick Santorum rears his righteous head, it is to exploit a social issue that is of no import in a national election. But he knows that the way to keep the …
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Feb 13 2012
Letters raise fears for last Briton in Guantanamo By Paul Calahan, Monday 13 February 2012 … On the day he marks 10 years locked inside the world’s most notorious prison without having been charged with an offence, the last UK resident in Guantanamo Bay pleads with his captors: “Please torture me in the old way …
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