Category: Culture

Dona nobis pacem

Peace on earth? The end of the Iraq war By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, 11:01 AM ET, 12/15/2011 … “Peace on earth!” (Luke 2:14) heralded the angels, announcing the birth of Jesus. It is appropriate, in this Advent season, when Christians wait for the announcement of the birth of Jesus, that we also receive the formal announcement …

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Outposts forever and Palestine Never

Newt Gingrich may be able to occupy Palestine, but Israel can’t By Bradley Burston, 15:17 13.12.11 … Speaker Gingrich, if you’re serious about becoming president, it’s time that you got to know us a bit better. Let’s start with the Occupation, our 44-year-long experiment in re-inventing the Palestinian people. This is what you need to …

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1992 jeremiad

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Who are we?

Newt, Mitt, Bibi and Vladimir By Thomas L. Friedman, December 13, 2011 … I have a simple motto when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I love both Israelis and Palestinians, but God save me from some of their American friends — those who want to love them to death, literally. That thought came to …

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Against all odds?

   

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Enormous self-regard

Newt, the Jews, and an “Invented” People By David  Remnick, December 11, 2011 … Late last week, as part of a Republican pander-fest for the Jewish vote—what  Jon Stewart aptly called a “tuchus kiss-off”—Newt Gingrich, the  frontrunner in Iowa and South Carolina, turned on the spigot of his pedantry and  called the Palestinians an “invented” …

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Dwindling congregations

PROOFS OF GOD IN A PHOTON By Martin Redfern, Sunday 24 December 1995 … FOR THE first time in 400 years, sensible people are saying some very dangerous things. Theologians are discussing the origins of the physical universe, the beauty of the fundamental laws of physics and the wonder of the complexity of nature. Scientists, …

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