Category: Christianity

Nothing to fear

Shariah Law: The Five Things Every Non-Muslim (and Muslim) Should Know By Qasim Rashid, 11/4/11 10:15 AM ET … 1. What does Shariah mean? Shariah is the law of the Qur’an and literally means “A path to life giving water.” In fact, the word Yarrah (i.e. the root of the Hebrew word Torah) means precisely …

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Loverly

The post-racial America of Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan By  Colbert I. King, November 4 … Oh, what a “loverly” time we are having in post-racial America. Except when the outrageous holy of holies of the American conservative movement elect to have their say, as happens often, most recently with right-wing oracles Ann Coulter and Pat …

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Bignesse of a hazelnut

If Men Ran the Church Announced by Burton Dasset, Thursday, 3 November 2011 … It’s taken me all night, and a lot of Access programming. But I’ve finally done it. I have sorted the “Beaker Song Book” into a logical sequence. As you know, we normally use the projector and laptop while in the Moot …

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Scripts

Brennan Manning: All Is Grace: God Loves You As You Are By John Blase, 10/28/11 09:01 PM ET … Scripts. We all live by them. A few of us are hopelessly devoted to one while the rest of us cut quite the syncretic rug. These scripts are always interesting, especially in how they describe our …

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Mammonites

The protesters seem more adult than politicians and plutocrats By Andrew Rawnsley, Saturday 29 October 2011 … The mayor of London demands a law against it to stop tent villages “erupting like boils” across the capital. If you lived like Boris, you too might be a bit paranoid about boils. The prime minister interrupts a …

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We should be ashamed

America’s Exploding Pipe Dream By Chareles M. Blow, October 28, 2011 … We are slowly — and painfully — being forced to realize that we are no longer the America of our imaginations. Our greatness was not enshrined. Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we …

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That others may simply live

A Devotion for Wall Street By Shane Claiborne, 10/25/11 11:20 AM ET … A reporter recently asked me, “As a Christian leader, does your faith have anything to say about Wall Street?”  I said, “How much time do you have?”   My faith has a lot to say about Wall Street. Theologian Karl Barth said, “We …

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