Category: Christianity

The current freakout

Most of Obama’s “Controversial” Birth Control Rule Was Law During Bush Years By Nick Baumann, Wed Feb. 8, 2012 2:10 PM PST … President Barack Obama’s decision to require most employers to cover birth control and insurers to offer it at no cost has created a firestorm of controversy. But the central mandate—that most employers …

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Patron saint of hate

What To Do About Violent Biblical Texts? By Philip Jenkins, 02/ 3/2012  4:11 pm … Every few weeks, it seems, Islam makes headlines in the U.S., whether the topic is a television show like All-American Muslim, a state prohibiting Sharia law, or just a grandstanding platform statement in a primary. No less predictable are the …

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He’s just a Mormon

The ultimate Mormon male By Naomi Zeveloff, Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 2:30 PM 15:58:29 CST … If there is one single impediment to Mitt Romney’s campaign, it is his utter inscrutability, his perplexing failure to schmooze with voters. Romney is seen by many as hollow, robotic, as stiff as his hair-sprayed coiffure. But to me, …

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An extraordinary letter

The slave who spoke from beyond the grave By Jonathan Brown, Saturday 04 February 2012 … An extraordinary letter written by an emancipated slave to his former owner ridiculing his request for him to return to work on a Tennessee plantation after the Civil War has become an internet sensation. More than two million people …

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To be the ideal candidate

Mitt Romney, the stealth tea party candidate By Theda Skocpol, January 31, 2012 … “Many tea party folks are going to find me, I believe, to be the ideal candidate,” the Republican presidential contender said in a news conference in December. “I sure hope so.” These words were uttered not by Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, …

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Well, it’s just great to be here!

Mitt Romney: the man behind the perma-smile By Ed Pilkington, Monday 30 January 2012 15.00 EST … “Well, it’s just great to be here!” Mitt Romney says as he bounds on to the stage at a campaign stop in January, just one of hundreds he has made in his epic journey – he hopes – …

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Secretive, acquisitive, patriarchal, authoritarian

Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy By Sally Denton, Sunday, Jan 29, 2012 8:00 AM 12:18:27 CST … When Mitt Romney received his patriarchal blessing as a Michigan teenager, he was told that the Lord expected great things from him.  All young Mormon men — the “worthy males” of the Church of Jesus Christ of …

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