The scriptures according to basic cable

History Channel’s The Bible series is worse than reality TV

By , Monday 25 March 2013 09.15 EDT   The History Channel more or less abandoned the pretext of history years ago. As programs like “UFO Hunters”, “Swamp…  [more]

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Following different Jesuses

Gordon Cosby’s Jesus

By Dean Snyder, March 21   Years ago when I was trying to figure out how to be a faithful and effective pastor in the city where I served at the time, I traveled to Washington, D.C.,…  [more]

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We are alive but not living

Iraq: ‘You didn’t fall… we pushed you’

By Alia Brahimi, 21 Mar 2013 11:06   “Are you here to work or… work?” a Basra airport security guard asked sympathetically.  I was standing on a small wooden platform behind a…  [more]

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And it did not matter

Iraq and the reinvention of reality

By Sarah Kendzior, 24 Mar 2013 10:35   The worst thing about the Iraq war was not that people got away with lying. It was that they did not – and it did not…  [more]

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Three flickers of light

What America Learned in Iraq

By John A. Nagl, March 19, 2013   The costs of the second Iraq war, which began 10 years ago this week, are staggering: nearly 4,500 Americans killed and more than 30,000 wounded, many…  [more]

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Resurrection

The Crucifixion of Tomas Young

By Chris Hedges, Mar 10, 2013   I flew to Kansas City last week to see Tomas Young. Young was paralyzed in Iraq in 2004. He is now receiving hospice care at his home.…  [more]

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Harder to laugh at that

What drives jihadism? Clue: it’s not what you think

By Memphis Barker, Tuesday 19 March 2013   Did you hear the one about the jihadist cleric? According to a new Harvard study, the main reason Islamic imams start to…  [more]

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