Jan 08 2012
Blessed are the un-cool By Rachel Held Evans, Jun 15, 2011 … People sometimes assume that because I’m a progressive 30-year-old who enjoys Mumford and Sons and has no children, I must want a super-hip church—you know, the kind that’s called “Thrive” or “Be” and which boasts “an awesome worship experience,” a fair-trade coffee bar, …
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Jan 07 2012
Santa Muerte: Mexico’s Devotion To the Saint of Death By R. Andrew Chesnut, 1/7/12 08:20 AM ET … While tens of thousands of Mexicans have lost their lives in the ongoing drug war, millions more have become devoted to death. Saint Death (Santa Muerte) is a skeletal folk saint whose cult has proliferated on both …
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Jan 06 2012
The shocking truth that killing can be so casual By Robert Fisk, Saturday 07 January 2012 … More horror arrives in the mail. Clive Burrage wrote to me about his brother-in-law, Harry Leeks, pilot of an RAF Mitchell bomber in the last two years of the Second World War, based in Cologne in the first …
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Jan 05 2012
Romney’s Evangelical Problem Starts With Theology By Daniel Burke, Religion News Service, 1/4/12 06:16 PM ET … The good news for Mitt Romney: he won the Iowa caucuses. The bad news for Romney: evangelicals remain reluctant to support him. Romney bested former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum by a mere eight votes in Tuesday’s (Jan. 3) …
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Jan 05 2012
From Rick Santorum to Ted Haggard, reality TV answers celebrity prayers By Becky Garrison, Thursday 5 January 2012 11.36 EST … Voters in Iowa have given Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum the green light to continue his surge. This success can be attributed in part to the prayerful support offered by the devoutly Christian Duggars, …
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Jan 05 2012
Rick Santorum: bearer of the Christianist mantle By Peter Beaumont, Thursday 5 January 2012 12.51 EST … Writing in 2003 the US columnist Andrew Sullivan coined a neologism “Christianist“. A Republican and Christian himself, what Sullivan meant to describe, as he explained in his blog earlier this year, was “an accelerating shift … taking place …
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Jan 05 2012
Death of Topsy the Elephant (1903) Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 … This morning we will be remembering the sad fate of Topsy the Elephant, who was put to death by electrocution for the murder of three. 1903 was a landmark year for the inventive folk of the USA. The Wright brothers …
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