Since this movie has been much talked about, on this list and among Oscar buzzers, today’s review by Gideon Levy in Haaretz offers a perspective I’ve not seen elsewhere:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065552.html
“…the film is infuriating, disturbing, outrageous and deceptive. It deserves…
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Here’s the cross that has haunted me ever since I saw it two years ago in Clarksdale, Mississippi, at a place called “Cat Head Blues.”
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Just got this today:
The Pastor asked if anyone in the congregation would like to express praise for answered prayers. A lady stood and walked to the podium. She said, “I have a Praise.
Two months ago, my husband,Tom, had…
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There’s a piece in the “On Faith” section of today’s Washington Post, where John Hagee proclaims his hopes and concerns for Obama. Of course, he includes this bit of bovine excrement: “When it comes to our ally Israel, one of…
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Something I have not seen or heard discussed during the rape of Gaza or its prologue…
Haven’t there been all kinds of funds and research expended on anti-missile technologies? Weren’t American systems installed in Israel? Why, after years of harassment…
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Thanks so much for introducing me to Clarence Jordan. My pastor has loaned me a copy of Jordan’s “translation” of Matthew and John and, because of the intro by Tom Key, I am listening to Harry Chapin’s soundtrack now… My…
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Near the end of Obama’s inaugural address was this stirring rhetoric:
“To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or…
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