Dec 24 2011
The story of Jesus is the ultimate political drama By Jonathan Freedland, Saturday 24 December 2011 04.10 EST … I shouldn’t like it. Not at all. My upbringing – regular synagogue attendance, Hebrew classes twice a week, a kosher home – was meant to inoculate me against it, ensuring that I would recoil at the …
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Dec 24 2011
2011: when protest turned peaceful By Peter Popham, Saturday 24 December 2011 … In September, a man nicknamed “Little Gandhi” was buried in his home town near Damascus. Ghiyath Matar, a 24-year-old father-to-be, had been tortured and killed by the Syrian secret police. His crime: greeting the soldiers, who came to crush the anti-regime protests, …
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Dec 23 2011
How I became a ‘terrorist’ By Abdelrahman Al Ahmar, 02:47 23.12.11 … The first time I was attacked by an Israeli settler, I was 14 years old. I was walking to school when an armed man wearing a skullcap, standing near some Israeli soldiers, pulled my pack off my back and threw it in the …
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Dec 23 2011
Britain’s love affair with our military is dangerous By George Chesterton, Friday 23 December 2011 06.00 EST … The only place you could be sure of seeing a British soldier used to be outside a pub in a garrison town at chucking-out time. Now there are soldiers on talent shows, parading in sports stadiums and …
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Dec 22 2011
The Absurdity of Christmas By David Lose, 12/22/11 07:37 AM ET … I’ve been struck by the ads and billboards atheists have purchased again this year suggesting that Christmas is, to put it kindly, a myth. Struck. Not offended or angered. Just struck. The gist of the advertisements is essentially that there is little to …
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Dec 19 2011
Millennials will change the future of the church By Fred Clark, December 18, 2011 4:34 pm … First let me tell you a story from almost 20 years ago. My buddy Dwight and I were arguing over what I was going to wear to a meeting. “I’m not a catcher,” I told him. Catchers have …
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Dec 19 2011
Why we’re celebrating hope this Christmas By Victor Batarseh, Thursday 15/12/2011 … It all started in Bethlehem. From here, the Christmas message was revealed to mankind; a message of joy, love and peace. And here we are today, after more than 2,000 years, reviving this eternal remembrance in faith and love, happily cheering and singing …
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