Mar 26 2012
Church’s mock raid leaves teen traumatized By Ed Komenda, Monday, March 26, 3:52 PM … MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — The men burst into the church classroom and ordered the 15 teens in the youth group to the floor. They covered the teens’ heads with pillowcases and bound their hands. One man waved an unloaded gun, and another …
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Mar 26 2012
Christians Called To Serve Jewish Settlers By Nathan Jeffay, March 25, 2012 … Psagot, West Bank — It is a typical, even stereotypical, West Bank settlement scene: bearded young men pruning vines while enthusing about the Chosen People’s God-given right to this region. But in this case it is Jesus, and not Jewish identity, that …
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Mar 25 2012
What Would Jesus Brew? Lots, beer makers say By Amanda Greene, March 23 … All this talk of beer was making the former seminarian thirsty. “Cheers,” said assistant brewer Christopher McGarvey, taking a sip from his pint of golden ale. Then he continued his lecture on the history of beer in ancient Samaria to a crowd …
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Mar 24 2012
The War On Religion Does Not Exist By Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, 03/23/2012 6:40 pm … Apparently, attempts are underway to open a new front in the supposed “war on religion” in my home state of Louisiana as it takes center stage in the presidential primary season. Truth be told, from what I have …
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Mar 20 2012
Did Jesus Exist? By Bart D. Ehrman, 03/20/2012 7:25 am … In a society in which people still claim the Holocaust did not happen, and in which there are resounding claims that the American president is, in fact, a Muslim born on foreign soil, is it any surprise to learn that the greatest figure in …
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Mar 14 2012
Wearing a Cross to Work Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 … I was musing on the great Wearing A Cross to Work controversy, if it could be called that. Overall I’m not convinced there is much persecution of Christians, in any real sense, in this country. But clearly there will – normally …
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Mar 10 2012
Romney, Santorum and archaic ideas on fertility By Lisa Miller, March 2, 2012 … Between them, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have as many children — 12 — as there were tribes of Israel. Ron Paul has five of his own, and in an early debate, perhaps unwilling to be outdone by Michele Bachmann’s fostering …
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