Lovely stories of Bethlehem

The Cross, an Amazing Paradox *

By Harry Emerson Fosdick, Living Under Tension, 1941, Harper and Brothers, New York and London, pages 233 – 242. It is one thing to preach a Christmas sermon about the radiant stories…  [more]

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Gaining momentum

Would Jesus Join the Occupy Protests?

By the Rev. Howard Bess, November 26, 2011 When the Martin Luther King Jr. monument was dedicated recently in Washington DC, I was reminded that the civil rights movement in America was led…  [more]

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Who of us has clean hands?

Why torturers film their handiwork

By Robert Fisk, Saturday 26 November 2011 When prisoners were brought to Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service for interrogation, their torturers often videotaped the torment. In the years after his downfall, I lectured around the…  [more]

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Scales fell from my eyes

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy

By , Friday 25 November 2011 12.25 EST US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful  [more]

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God save us from the successful church

How to Shrink Your Church

By , 11/21/11 09:00 AM ET Pastors and churches spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year attending conferences, buying books, hiring consultants, advertisers and marketers, all to try and accomplish one…  [more]

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Not in the news anymore

Why Iceland Should Be in the News But Is Not

By Deena Stryker, August 25 2011 An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest…  [more]

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Where is Norman Rockwell?

Occupy Portland Protester Pepper Sprayed In The Face

By , 11/19/11 02:03 PM ET In recent days pepper spray has become almost synonymous with the Occupy movement. Most recently this photo, which is quickly becoming an…  [more]

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