May 12 2011
May 21, 2011: Harold Camping and the apocalypse of my youth By Jason Boyett, 08:35 AM ET, 05/12/2011 … Harold Camping, the 89 year-old Christian radio broadcaster, has announced that the “rapture” of Christian believers will throw the world into chaos on May 21, 2011, followed five months later by the total destruction of the …
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May 11 2011
End times theology: an insider’s guide By Brian McLaren, May 10, 2011 1:08 PM … I grew up in a Christian tradition (a young one, actually, having started in the 1830’s) called Dispensationalism. Although we shied away from predicting specific dates, we sang and preached and even made scary movies about the coming “Rapture,” Great Tribulation, …
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May 07 2011
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May 07 2011
Truth and reconciliation? It won’t happen in Syria By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 7 May 2011 … If you want to understand the cruel tragedy of Syria, there are two books you must read: Nikolaos van Dam’s The Struggle for Power in Syria and, of course, Patrick Seale’s biography Assad. Van Dam was an ambassador in …
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May 01 2011
Daily Mail Launches Weird Attack On Obama’s Father By Jason Linkins, 04/29/11 11:40 AM ET … Here’s a clever thing the the U.K.’s Daily Mail did in response to the release of President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate: a brief little item on how Obama’s father was a “slippery character.” Says the Daily Mail, “With …
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Apr 30 2011
It’s official. We know now that there is nothing that will ever appease the nutters who desperately hate our President. Frenzied conspiracy theories have always thrived in the fertile imaginations of America’s fringy shadowlands, those dark, squishy places just beyond the edge of sanity. But in this topsy-turvy silly season, with abject nonsense cropping up all around …
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Apr 26 2011
Coffee Shop Religion: Interfaith of the Everyday By Saumya Arya Haas, 04/25/11 09:45 PM ET … I never learned much about religion until I started hanging out at Muddy Waters Coffee Shop on the corner of Lyndale and 24th in Uptown, Minneapolis. I was raised to be a priestess (of Hinduism), grew up surrounded by …
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