An open letter to our suddenly-in-the-spotlight (and loving every minute of it) blue dog democrats:
On the subject of healthcare reform, where exactly do you stand? We now know what you’re against, but what are you for? And just who…
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Friends,
I’ve been on this soapbox for many years now, but if you still insist that the hard-core beliefs of the fringes of American Christianity have no bearing on events on the other side of this space-traveling mudball, then read…
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For the sake of argument, let’s suppose torture works…
For the sake of argument, let’s also suppose that 9/11 was inevitable. Let’s suppose that it wasn’t a circus of errors and missed opportunities and hot pursuits that were allowed to…
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Some thoughts re. this morning’s service (the first one). Actually, not all are directly related to today’s events; some of these have been building for a while and others are basically the same things I’ve griped about before. You’re welcome…
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My pastor John, methinks, probably wonders if I too often connect disparate ideas and events by the thinnest of threads. There is an old tradition in the Middle East regarding when the feasts of Ramadan begin and end; as long…
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Having just finished a book that extols the virtue of harmonizing right-wing elements of Protestant and Roman Catholic Christianity (see
http://tinyurl.com/b3levz and
http://tinyurl.com/ahashg), I found the following Fisk commentary on papal perspective most interesting. And more than a bit…
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My suspicion, somewhat validated by the more critical articles I’ve read, is that Colson’s alarmist worldview stems in large part from what he sees as an Islamic encroachment on his prison ministry. He has become a darling of the right-wing…
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