Category: Christianity

Just metaphors

The Not-so-Social Gospel By James Martin, S.J., Thursday, August 23, 2012 02:32:05 PM   The Lazy Paralytic 1. When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at his home. 2. So many gathered around that there was no longer room for them, not even in front of the door; …

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An ethos that will continue

A good Jew hates Arabs By Zvi Bar’el, Aug.22, 2012 3:18 AM   The young criminals who mercilessly beat Jamal Julani and his cousins simply because they’re Arabs don’t live in settlements, haven’t occupied any cities and haven’t taken control of any terraced hills in the territories. Perhaps they participated in one of those tours …

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Homegrown terror

Jerusalem ‘Lynching’ Raises Specter Of Anti-Palestinian Terrorism By Zack Beauchamp, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:00 pm   Two separate attacks on Palestinians civilians Friday morning raise serious questions about rising anti-Palestinian radicalism among Israeli youth. In the first incident, a mob of Israeli Jewish youth surrounded three Palestinians walking in Jerusalem’s Zion Square and assaulted them, …

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Fundamentally, all propaganda is drivel

Paul Ryan’s faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney By Giles Fraser, Monday 13 August 2012 11.46 EDT   When I was a teenager, my American girlfriend at the time gave me Ayn Rand’s cult novel Atlas Shrugged to read. It changed her life, she said. It changed mine, too. She was …

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Divesting themselves of their overabundance

Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Clarence Jordan: The Man Who Inspired the Fullers’ Affordable Housing Movement By Kirk Lyman-Barner, 08/12/2012  9:20 am   Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912 – Oct. 29, 1969) would have turned 100 recently. A farmer with a degree in agriculture from the University of Georgia and a Doctorate in New Testament …

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The saving efficacy of killing

Batman, Neo-Nazis and the Good News of Jesus By Lee C. Camp, 08/08/2012  9:18 am   I am a conservative Christian. But I would be a fool to say that in public these days (though I suppose I have just made myself a fool), because that label has been so co-opted by those, so it …

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Prutzah, whore

The ultra-Orthodox tighten their grip in Israel By Ruth Marcus, August 7   The rock hit Nili Philipp on the side of her helmet as she biked last year along the main road in this Jerusalem suburb. A few years earlier, the spitting had begun, as Philipp jogged on a road bordering an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood. …

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