Category: Christianity

She’s too valuable

Bachmann cashes in on witch hunt By Alex Seitz-Wald, Wednesday, Aug  1, 2012 10:58 AM CDT   She may have been condemned by her own party leadership and lost any shred of credibility she had left with the mainstream media, but Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Muslim witch hunt accomplished it’s likely goal — money. The controversial …

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This is why nobody will care

Chick-fil-A is where American politics really lives, so eat it By Colin Horgan, Thursday 2 August 2012 07.00 EDT   Americans are apparently so bored with the 2012 election campaign that a chicken sandwich has easily taken over as the most interesting thing to talk about this summer. While Mitt Romney criss-crossed his way from …

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Window into the soul of a man

Mitt Romney Just Played The Race Card By Peter S. Goodman, 07/30/2012  6:08 pm   Mitt Romney’s latest brush with a quotation requiring further explanation is really an act of political genius — albeit, one of the cravenly cynical and despicable variety. By standing in Jerusalem on Monday and declaring that Jews are richer than …

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Everyone changes

I wish every church said what this church says in their bulletin … By Jon Acuff, July 25, 2012   It’s easy to poke fun at some of the things churches say on their welcome sign. It’s easy to question some of the things that make it inside a church bulletin. It’s easy to say …

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Unaccustomed to the truth

The art of religious sunbathing: giving up trying to be in control By Giles Fraser, Friday 27 July 2012 14.29 EDT   Rowan Williams once brilliantly compared prayer to sunbathing. “When you’re lying on the beach something is happening, something that has nothing to do with how you feel or how hard you’re trying. You’re …

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Are we our brothers’ keepers?

A shot in the dark By Roger Ebert, July 26, 2012 12:57 PM   Catie and Caleb Medley went to the doomed midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” It was a movie they’d been looking forward to for a year, her father said. Gunfire rang out. The bullets missed Catie, who was pregnant. Caleb …

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We all grow poor because of it

‘Bachmann affair’ against Clinton aide Huma Abedin is a wake-up call By John L. Esposito, 04:53 PM ET, 07/26/2012   Michele Bachmann’s has stirred up a storm. Bachmann has been criticized on the floor of the Senate and denounced in the media, and inspired a petition calling for her resignation or removal from the House …

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