Category: Culture

Another jolt of public affirmation

From Rick Santorum to Ted Haggard, reality TV answers celebrity prayers By Becky Garrison, Thursday 5 January 2012 11.36 EST … Voters in Iowa have given Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum the green light to continue his surge. This success can be attributed in part to the prayerful support offered by the devoutly Christian Duggars, …

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Pray away

Rick Santorum: bearer of the Christianist mantle By Peter Beaumont, Thursday 5 January 2012 12.51 EST … Writing in 2003 the US columnist Andrew Sullivan coined a neologism “Christianist“. A Republican and Christian himself, what Sullivan meant to describe, as he explained in his blog earlier this year, was “an accelerating shift … taking place …

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Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley

Death of Topsy the Elephant (1903) Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 … This morning we will be remembering the sad fate of Topsy the Elephant, who was put to death by electrocution for the murder of three. 1903 was a landmark year for the inventive folk of the USA. The Wright brothers …

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Organising panda fights

Wife-beating? That’s fine – unless you’re a Muslim By Mark Steel, Wednesday 09 July 2008 … The Sun newspaper has come over a bit modest. Following a Channel 4 documentary about media reporting of Muslims, the paper accepts some of its stories were “distorted”. But they’re not doing themselves justice. They weren’t distorted – they …

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Much is at stake

The streets of 2012 By Naomi Wolf, 03 Jan 2012 14:59 … New York, NY – What does the New Year hold for the global wave of protest that erupted in 2011? Did the surge of anger that began in Tunisia crest in lower Manhattan, or is 2012 likely to see an escalation of the …

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Its own time and place

What Does The Book Of Revelation Really Mean? By Greg Carey, 01/ 2/12 01:25 AM ET … This is the first installment of a three-part series. We’ve survived Harold Camping. We survived Y2K, albeit with less distress than our ancestors survived Y1K. The world has survived end-time predictors as diverse as Billy Graham, William Miller …

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Death via live broadcast

On third anniversary of Gaza war, we will remember By Amira Hass, 03:53 02.01.12 … On the third anniversary of the Cast Lead onslaught, we remember the anonymous soldiers who fired on a red car, in which a father, Mohammed Shurrab, and his two sons were returning home from their farm lands. It is not …

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