Apr 23 2012
“Oklahoma City”: The Bubba job By Laura Miller, Sunday, Apr 22, 2012 03:00 PM CDT … In the hours after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, cable news breathlessly reported that authorities were searching for three Middle Eastern men supposedly seen fleeing the scene. True, this was just two years …
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Apr 15 2012
Speaking Out Is Complicated (And So Is Staying Silent) By Brian D. McLaren, 04/14/2012 6:40 am … For 24 years of my life, I was a church planter and pastor. At the beginning of those years, I would have gladly called myself an Evangelical. But those years coincided with the rise of the Religious Right, …
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Apr 15 2012
When Mormons were socialists By Troy Williams, Sunday, Apr 15, 2012 1:00 PM 15:54:47 CDT … “You are cursed because of your riches!” It was a bummer message that nobody wanted to hear. Samuel the Lamanite stood alone atop the great wall of the city of Zarahemla to warn the inhabitants of their pending destruction. …
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Apr 10 2012
Deir Yassin: No passing over history By Yousef Munayyer, 09 Apr 2012 16:52 … On April 9, 1948, scores of Palestinian civilians were massacred at the village of Deir Yassin through co-operative efforts of Yishuv forces like the Irgun, Lehi and the Haganah. The Zionist narrative on the events of 1948 and the Nakba – …
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Apr 09 2012
Defining Jews, Defining a Nation: Can Genetics Save Israel? By Jeff Wheelwright, Mar 14 2012, 7:01 AM ET … Herzliya, a broad-beached ocean-side resort 10 miles north of Tel Aviv, is booming with construction — big hotels going up on the bluffs and expensive new bungalows on the bougainvillea-laden streets. Herzliya was named for Theodor …
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Apr 08 2012
Elton Trueblood on the Quaker experiment: a continuous ferment By Monsieur d’Nalgar … (Note: this is adapted from an email to my pastor written in July 2006.) About a week ago, I found a small book (or it found me) by Elton Trueblood. Written in 1948, it was titled “Alternative to Futility.” I met Dr. Trueblood in …
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Apr 07 2012
20 things Jesus never said Observations on the life of faith from a candidate for the Office of Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA), April 4, 2012 … Do you see that water over there? I’m about to turn it into grape juice. Upon this rock I will build my megachurch. Call me. I …
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