America’s endless apocalypse By Matthew Barrett Gross and Mel Gilles, Sunday, Feb 26, 2012 1:00 PM 14:21:17 CST … Few of us can clearly make out the form of history until it is well behind us. That helps us understand why we still have not settled on a common name for the decade now receding behind …
Category: Christianity
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Feb 26 2012
Choose your own Apocalypse
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Feb 25 2012
Culture warrior made flesh
Rick Santorum: the apostle of America’s right By Paul Harris, Saturday 25 February 2012 … Few American presidential campaigns have ever adopted a totem as unlikely as the sweater vest. But Rick Santorum, the far-right social conservative now topping national polls in the Republican presidential nomination race, has embraced the unfashionable, dorky item of sleeveless …
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Feb 22 2012
It’s complicated
Faith in the Back Row By Mark Osler, 02/21/2012 12:22 pm … I am the son of a painter. On summer days, I have often found an excuse to sit near him as he worked. I might pretend to read a book, but I’m really watching him. A better and more compelling story than any …
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Feb 19 2012
Puffed-up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant
You don’t have to believe in God to cherish the Church By Mary Ann Sieghart, Monday 20 February 2012 … The Church of England couldn’t hope for a better enemy than Richard Dawkins. Puffed-up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant, he displays exactly the character traits that could do with some Christian mellowing. In fact, he’s …
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Feb 18 2012
Christianity after religion
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 16 2012
We have radically to rethink
Mourning John Hick: One of the Greatest Theologians of Our Time By Joe Winkler, 02/14/2012 5:45 pm … With a deep sadness in my heart, I write of the recently deceased Christian theologian John Hick. I feel utterly unqualified to provide a proper eulogy, or even the requisite encomium for one of the 20th centuries …
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