Category: Culture

Six Points

Important Considerations Regarding Homosexuality: Why Churches Should Welcome and Affirm Christian GLBTs By Bruce Lowe, 2011   “It terrified me to think that God made me just to hate me and send me to hell.” This was the response of a teenager to hearing his pastor tell the congregation that the Bible says God hates …

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Visual analogy for the disparity

Incomes of bottom 90 percent grew $59 in 40 years By Natasha Lennard, Monday, Mar 25, 2013 04:12 PM CDT   Pulitzer Prize-winner David Cay Johnston has highlighted yet more statistics that illuminate the spike in income inequality in the U.S. in recent decades. Flagging Johnston’s analysis, HuffPo noted Monday, “Incomes for the bottom 90 …

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The scriptures according to basic cable

History Channel’s The Bible series is worse than reality TV By Alan Yuhas, Monday 25 March 2013 09.15 EDT   The History Channel more or less abandoned the pretext of history years ago. As programs like “UFO Hunters”, “Swamp People” and “Hairy Bikers” added up, the network’s decision to broadcast The Bible as a mini-series …

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Following different Jesuses

Gordon Cosby’s Jesus By Dean Snyder, March 21   Years ago when I was trying to figure out how to be a faithful and effective pastor in the city where I served at the time, I traveled to Washington, D.C., more than once to spend an hour or two talking to Gordon Cosby, who died …

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We are alive but not living

Iraq: ‘You didn’t fall… we pushed you’ By Alia Brahimi, 21 Mar 2013 11:06   “Are you here to work or… work?” a Basra airport security guard asked sympathetically.  I was standing on a small wooden platform behind a flimsy curtain, as she waved her hand-held metal detector across my body. She had guessed my …

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And it did not matter

Iraq and the reinvention of reality By Sarah Kendzior, 24 Mar 2013 10:35   The worst thing about the Iraq war was not that people got away with lying. It was that they did not – and it did not matter. The 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq was a week of media …

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Three flickers of light

What America Learned in Iraq By John A. Nagl, March 19, 2013   The costs of the second Iraq war, which began 10 years ago this week, are staggering: nearly 4,500 Americans killed and more than 30,000 wounded, many grievously; tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis wounded or killed; more than $2 trillion in direct …

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