Sep 16 2011
Religious Tolerance: Karma, Christ, Whatever? By Christian Smith, 9/16/11 01:17 PM ET … There was a time in American culture, only a few generations ago, when religious differences were major. Baptists were not Methodists, and both were definitely not Presbyterians. Catholics were absolutely not Protestant, and Protestants doubted that Catholics were even Christians. Jews and …
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Sep 16 2011
Duane Buck And Celebrating The Interruption Of Death By Shane Claiborne, 9/16/11 01:52 PM ET … Last night death was interrupted. Duane Buck was set for execution. His execution would have been the second this week and the eleventh this year in Texas alone… and two more executions are scheduled for next week. When Presidential …
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Sep 13 2011
Trocmé, Christ and revolution By Savitri Hensman, Tuesday 13 September 2011 14.02 BST … Jesus “was not concerned with the reform of certain details, but with overturning everything, including the entire economic hierarchy of society”, wrote André Trocmé in Jesus and the nonviolent revolution. It is now half a century since this work appeared, 40 …
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Sep 11 2011
Jimmy Carter: ‘We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war’ By Carole Cadwalladr, Sunday 11 September 2011 … Where does Jimmy Carter live? Well, close your eyes and imagine the kind of house an ex-president of the United States might live in. The sort of residence befitting the …
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Sep 07 2011
What does it mean to be an ‘anarchist’? By David Goodway, Wednesday 7 September 2011 10.37 BST … Anarchists disdain the customary use of “anarchy” to mean “chaos” or “complete disorder”. For them it signifies the absence of a ruler or rulers, a self-managed society, usually resembling the co-operative commonwealth that most socialists have traditionally …
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Sep 06 2011
Exposing religious fundamentalism in the US By Paul Rosenberg, 06 Sep 2011 13:35 … With Representative Michele Bachmann’s victory in the Ames, Iowa straw poll, and Texas Governor Rick Perry’s triumphal entrance into the GOP presidential primary, there’s been a sudden spike of attention drawn to the extremist religious beliefs both candidates have been associated …
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Sep 04 2011
If Rick Perry is an economic miracle worker, why are so many Texans going hungry? By John Turner, Sunday 4 September 2011 01.07 BST … One of the questions I’m constantly asked here at the food bank in Austin, Texas is: “I don’t understand why there are so many people who are hungry: why is …
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