May 10 2010

Sarah Palin is a Nimrod

 And I thought I wrote long sentences: “I have said all along that America is based on Judeo-Christian beliefs and, uh, nobody has to believe me though, uh, you can just go to our Founding Fathers’ early documents and see…  [more]

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May 01 2010

The Look

 The latest generation of a problem that will not go away:  http://bit.ly/c8NQF9…  [more]

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Mar 24 2010

Remarkable evidence that Ezekiel Bulver is dying

… In 1941, Ezekiel Bulver recounted the story of how, at the age of five, his destiny was determined when he heard his mother say to his father – who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were…  [more]

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Mar 21 2010

Tourism as terrorism

 I came across this interesting (if dismaying can be interesting) article today:  http://www.shipoffools.com/features/2009/a_visit_from_the_settlers.html  It contains a link to the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI):  http://www.eappi.org/en/about/overview.html  Apparently Baptists in Sweden and the UK are a more enlightened bunch…  [more]

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Jan 31 2010

When a congregation is just an audience

 Maybe what passes for congregational singing these days is part of the Christian suffering I am expected to endure during my sojourn on this doomed dirt clod in space…  When did the tired cliché of a Broadway interlude become the…  [more]

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Jan 24 2010

God in Haiti

 This discussion on God and Haiti’s suffering is very good:  http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith//2010/01/does_god_allow_haiti_to_suffer/all.html  Frankly, I have been struggling with the idea in our book that all suffering is part of God’s handiwork, to either mete out divine vengeance or build us up…  [more]

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Jan 16 2010

Haiti: the Lebanese and the bat-crap crazies

 Curious about the origins of Pat Robertson’s outrageous comments about Haiti’s latest agony, my research turned up this interesting nugget in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti):  “In 1912 Syrians residing in Haiti participated in a plot in which the presidential palace…  [more]

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