Dec 04 2011
A New York spider gave me an insight into US private healthcare By Laurie Penny, Sunday 4 December 2011 09.30 EST … It started with a spider. Someone with a taste for narrative justice might call it retribution, but there’s really no moral correlation between the wisdom of absconding with a relative stranger after a …
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Dec 04 2011
The crackdown on Occupy controversy: a rebuttal By Naomi Wolf, Friday 2 December 2011 08.43 EST … What a firestorm my Comment is free blog post in the Guardian, “The Shocking News Behind the Crackdown on Occupy”, has unleashed: some have praised, while others have attacked. Joshua Holland’s criticisms of my piece, in a blog …
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Nov 28 2011
The Cross, an Amazing Paradox * By Harry Emerson Fosdick, Living Under Tension, 1941, Harper and Brothers, New York and London, pages 233 – 242. … It is one thing to preach a Christmas sermon about the radiant stories that light up the birth of Jesus; it is another to preach a Palm Sunday sermon …
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Nov 27 2011
Would Jesus Join the Occupy Protests? By the Rev. Howard Bess, November 26, 2011 … When the Martin Luther King Jr. monument was dedicated recently in Washington DC, I was reminded that the civil rights movement in America was led not by a politician fulfilling campaign promises, nor by a popular evangelist bent on saving …
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Nov 27 2011
Why torturers film their handiwork By Robert Fisk, Saturday 26 November 2011 … When prisoners were brought to Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service for interrogation, their torturers often videotaped the torment. In the years after his downfall, I lectured around the world on the illegality and the immorality and the outrageous civilian slaughter of the invasion …
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Nov 26 2011
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy By Naomi Wolf, Friday 25 November 2011 12.25 EST … US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in …
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Nov 22 2011
How to Shrink Your Church By Tim Suttle, 11/21/11 09:00 AM ET … Pastors and churches spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year attending conferences, buying books, hiring consultants, advertisers and marketers, all to try and accomplish one thing: to increase attendance — to be a bigger church. I’m absolutely convinced this is the …
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