Jan 18 2016
The name “Mission: Meeting” is sort of an inside joke for missionaries and MKs (children of missionaries are called “missionary kids” or “mishkids”) who endured endless¹ “mission meetings” (planning and business meetings). It also conveys the idea that this project’s mission is to allow web site visitors to “meet” real people of the …
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Jan 08 2016
Dear editor, The good doctor-chairman complains that he cannot adequately explain himself within the constraints of this newspaper’s 500-word limit, but let’s see if we cannot concisely summarize the essence of all recent regressive rants: God good. Guns good. Baby Jesus good. God bless Bibi Netanyahu and George Bush. War good. Torture good. Ronald Reagan …
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Jan 04 2016
Why I converted to Islam By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, March 29, 2015 2:00AM ET I was born Lew Alcindor. Now I’m Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The transition from Lew to Kareem was not merely a change in celebrity brand name — like Sean Combs to Puff Daddy to Diddy to P. Diddy — but a transformation of …
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Dec 30 2015
Stop asking me to condemn terrorists just because I’m Muslim By Rana Elmir, December 28 As an American Muslim, I am consistently and aggressively asked — by media figures, religious leaders, politicians and Internet trolls — to condemn terrorism to prove my patriotism. I emphatically refuse. Make no mistake: The terror imposed by those …
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Dec 19 2015
. Dear editor: After reading the rash of liberal letters recently that sympathized with the Muslims so much (while mocking the rest of us for being fearful of the Islamic jihadist terrorists), perhaps many of you might be much happier if you left America permanently and moved over to some Muslim country! You might …
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Dec 13 2015
By Jacques, d’Nalgar, December 13 2015 Why all the sanctimonious hand-wringing over Donald Trump’s latest bombastics? Are we really that shocked when this unfiltered braggart harrumphs that the world’s Muslims must not be allowed to sully our exceptional, Christian America? After all, isn’t that what most of us really want? Sure, we may …
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Dec 11 2015
The Christian Terror of Saint Augustine By Michael J. Brenner, December 11, 2015 At one time, Christians performed deeds little different from those of ISIS today – amazingly with the explicit blessing of Augustine of Hippo, a Catholic saint and an influential leader of the Church in Roman North Africa. There is a benefit …
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