Nov 09 2016
We Are to Plant Christian Guideposts Given the election results that came in through the night, it is now apparent that the United States is traveling on a highway that is yet to be mapped. For many of us, the old, familiar guideposts of the Christian ethical life, including peace, patience, kindness, generosity, and …
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Nov 08 2016
A sermon preached by Larry Benfield, the bishop of Arkansas, on November 6, 2016, at St. Luke’s Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas. This year’s church calendar is off by about one day, sort of like our internal time clocks are off by about an hour this morning. Halloween came on its appointed day, Monday, …
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Oct 27 2016
A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump By Roger O. Friedland, October 26, 2016 What does the love of Jesus have to do with Trump? How to explain his overwhelming support from evangelical voters, who—for more than three decades—have formed the bastion of the Christian right? According to a Pew …
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Oct 26 2016
I have heard, on more than one occasion, progressives postulate that Hillary Clinton is a trigger-happy, corporate shill who will not take America forward. Some of these folks are actually considering voting for Donald Trump, hoping that the dark days of his presidency will bring about a progressive awakening to forever end the stranglehold a …
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Oct 14 2016
Dear editor, We the People are about to roll the dice and elect our next president. Just enough time left to dash off a few well-deserved thank you notes… So first of all, a great big thank you to our ever-vigilant tea parties, and to their patron saints the Brothers Koch, for breathing new life into the …
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Oct 13 2016
Growing Cotton in Iowa The Economist, Oct 15th 2016 AS THE election of 2016 lurches to an unmourned end, it feels cruel to report that the presidential race of 2020 is already under way. This haste makes sense, at least on the Republican side. If voters on November 8th consign Donald Trump to a …
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Sep 21 2016
“Some People Push Back”: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens By Ward Churchill, September 12, 2001 When queried by reporters concerning his views on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm X famously – and quite charitably, all things considered – replied that it was merely a case of “chickens coming …
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