Response to the Muslim

 

Support for Morgan

Sentinel Record Letter to the Editor, Sunday, January 28, 2018   Dear editor: This is my response to the Muslim, Mahmoud El-Yousseph’s letter (Sunday, Jan. 21) which was highly critical of Jan Morgan, owner of the…  [more]

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We’re developing a national cataract

Cardinal Tobin, Am I a Christian?

By Nicholas Kristof, Dec. 22, 2017   What is Christmas about, anyway? Can I be a Christian if I doubt the virgin birth? Can a woman become a cardinal? What would upset Jesus…  [more]

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Believing like Jesus

A wonderful time of year

Monsieur d’Nalgar:  Mr. Lindholm informed me of several corrections that are now reflected herein.  These corrections were made via social media after the letter was published in the Sentinel Record…  The comments that follow were  [more]

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Everyone else

The Black Community in Alabama Saved Us From White Evangelicals

By John Pavlovitz, December 13, 2017 (updated December 14, 2017)   As news of Doug Jones’ victory came in last night I initially rejoiced. Watching one of the reddest…  [more]

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We all have so much work to do

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘Trump is where he is because of his appeal to racism’

By Donald McRae, Friday 8 December 2017 13.26 EST   Like all people my age I find the passage of time so startling,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says…  [more]

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Preserve this precious heritage

   

One Hundred Percent American

By Ralph Linton in The American Mercury (volume 40, 1937, pages 427-29)   There can be no question about the average American’s Americanism or his desire to preserve this precious heritage at all costs.…  [more]

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War

 

Hedd Wyn: the shepherd poet whose story shows the stupidity of war

By Giles Fraser, Thursday 9 November 2017   When the first world war broke out, the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans was working as a shepherd on…  [more]

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