Apr 24 2016

A holy harangue

    Dear editor, In my last letter (April 10), I encouraged everyone who is genuinely concerned about the future welfare of our nation to please attend the prayer rally led by the Rev. Franklin Graham, who is visiting all…  [more]

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Apr 20 2016

Seriously

When religious liberty demands cease to be legitimate

By Amy Butler, April 19, 2016   I think most Americans, even non-religious Americans, are on board with the idea of religious liberty — in the abstract. But like so many…  [more]

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Mar 03 2016

Trump is wrong and Jeb was right

   

Complicit in terror

  Dear editor: Twenty-five years or so ago, we didn’t have a Muslim terrorist problem in this country because, frankly, we didn’t have hardly any Muslims here. I remember driving on the interstate past Perrysburg,…  [more]

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Mar 01 2016

Religious ideology is a tool

Why the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria

By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., February 22, 2016   In part because my father was murdered by an Arab, I’ve made an effort to understand the impact of U.S. policy in the…  [more]

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Feb 21 2016

We humans hang on to our symbols

Meditation on My Home in Lebanon

By Frances Fuller, 21st February 2016   I made a mistake in my book. Let’s just say that I was wrong. In the epilogue of In Borrowed Houses I said that the little stone…  [more]

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Feb 15 2016

The world according to Webster

    Dear editor: It really hasn’t been too far back in time in which the overwhelming majority of Americans regarded socialism and communism as being undesirable, evil systems of government! That was true in both the Republican Party under…  [more]

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Jan 18 2016

Once upon a time

    The name “Mission: Meeting” is sort of an inside joke for missionaries and MKs (children of missionaries are called “missionary kids” or “mishkids”) who endured endless¹ “mission meetings” (planning and business meetings). It also conveys the idea that…  [more]

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