Sep 20 2010

How do you?

As retold to me today by one of the participants… Last Wednesday evening, two couples struck up a conversation while waiting for a meeting to begin.  After a few minutes, one of the couples mentioned that they hadn’t had a…  [more]

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Sep 16 2010

After the rapture

What’s Real About the Rapture? By John R. Coats, author of “Original Sinners: A New Interpretation of Genesis” September 16, 2010 09:34 AM My maternal grandparents lived in a small northeast-Texas town with a communal zeitgeist more…  [more]

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Sep 14 2010

Snatched! The abridged version…

“O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge.” — Ogden Nash, from “So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much” … “Can’t reconcile …  [more]

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Sep 12 2010

People of the book

The true history of the Koran in America By Ted Widmer September 12, 2010 Nine years later, we are still haunted by Sept. 11, and in some ways it’s getting worse. All summer, a shrill debate over whether to build…  [more]

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Sep 12 2010

More civilized?

Why does the US government think burning Qurans is less civilised than drone attacks on civilian populations?

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Sep 10 2010

Ye have made it

And said unto them, It is written , My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17, and Luke 19:46)

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Sep 10 2010

Madness

Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood . . .

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