Category: Christianity

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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Death porn

Even Muammar Gaddafi deserved a private death By Mark Lawson,Friday 21 October 2011 08.30 EDT … Western foreign policy in recent years has combined with the democratisation of filmed images to create a stark new problem for media organisations: the existence of images of regime-changed leaders before, during and after the moment of death. Scenes …

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