Jul 27 2011
Brevik: A terrorist who claims roots in crusader Christianity By Arthur Waskow, July 27, 2011 11:03 AM … Every major religious tradition on the planet has within it streaks of blood and hatred, even though its fabric as a whole is woven in compassion and justice. The question is: How do we acknowledge these bloody …
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Jul 27 2011
Why Breivik Was a Christian Terrorist By Mark Juergensmeyer, 7/27/11 12:20 PM ET … Many Christians cringe when Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik is described as a “Christian terrorist.” But that is what he is. It is true that Breivik was much more concerned about politics and history than about scripture and religious belief. But much …
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Jul 26 2011
Fantasy warriors strike again By Joan Smith, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 … One of the most disconcerting things about Friday’s mass murders in Norway is the physical appearance of the man arrested in connection with the killings. Posing for a photograph in a wetsuit, Anders Behring Breivik looks like a male model in a survivalist …
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Jul 25 2011
How the Deficit Got This Big By Teresa Tritch, July 23, 2011 … With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here — from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future …
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Jul 23 2011
The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of “Terrorism” By Glenn Greenwald, Saturday, Jul 23, 2011 07:24 ET … (updated below) For much of the day yesterday, the featured headline on The New York Times online front page strongly suggested that Muslims were responsible for the attacks on Oslo; that led to definitive statements on …
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Jul 22 2011
Remembering Dorothy Day By Robert Ellsberg, 7/21/11 08:19 AM ET … I met Dorothy Day in the fall of 1975 when I was nineteen. I had taken leave from college and made my way to the Catholic Worker headquarters in New York City, drawn by a number of motivations. I was anxious to learn something …
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Jul 21 2011
Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now By Sam Haselby, Thursday 21 July 2011 12.45 BST … In the US, a Reinhold Niebuhr revival is underway. It received a boost a few years ago when Senator John McCain and then Senator Barack Obama both cited the theologian as an important thinker on the role of the …
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