Feb 19 2012
You don’t have to believe in God to cherish the Church By Mary Ann Sieghart, Monday 20 February 2012 … The Church of England couldn’t hope for a better enemy than Richard Dawkins. Puffed-up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant, he displays exactly the character traits that could do with some Christian mellowing. In fact, he’s …
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Feb 19 2012
House of Stone By Anthony Shadid, published February 18, 2012 … The America that drew my family was 7,000 miles from where they started, in old Marjayoun, in what is now Lebanon. My aunts and uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents, were part of a century-long wave of migration that occurred as the Ottoman Empire crumbled, then …
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Feb 18 2012
The End of Church By Diana Butler Bass, 02/18/2012 7:50 am … Something startling is happening in American religion: We are witnessing the end of church or, at the very least, the end of conventional church. The United States is fast-becoming a society where Christianity is being reorganized after religion. In recent decades, untold numbers …
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Feb 18 2012
Anthony Shadid yearned for home By Jefferson Morley, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 5:42 PM 12:45:46 CST … Anthony’s Shadid’s now unbearably poignant book, “House of Stone,” opens with a scene of carnage that will be familiar to anyone who read his coverage of the wars of the Middle East. As a reporter for the Washington …
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Feb 18 2012
Eugenics: the skeleton that rattles loudest in the left’s closet By Jonathan Freedland, Friday 17 February 2012 13.59 EST … Does the past matter? When confronted by facts that are uncomfortable, but which relate to people long dead, should we put them aside and, to use a phrase very much of our time, move on? …
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Feb 18 2012
False accusations of antisemitism desensitise us to the real thing By Rachel Shabi, Friday 17 February 2012 09.11 EST … She hasn’t yet filled the post or filed a single line of copy, but the incoming New York Times correspondent for Jerusalem has already been judged. And it’s damning. Apparently, soon-to-be bureau chief Jodi Rudoren …
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Feb 18 2012
The US in a ‘dangerous state of funk’ By Ian Buruma, 18 Feb 2012 13:48 … The eccentric Bengali intellectual Nirad C Chaudhuri once explained the end of the British Raj in India as a case of “funk”, or loss of nerve. The British had stopped believing in their own empire. They simply lost the …
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