Oct 26 2012

Eve made me do it

A New Twist to the Adam and Eve Story

By , 10/25/2012  1:51 pm   Do you know the story of Adam and Eve? If we truly understand what took place on that day in the Garden…  [more]

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Oct 25 2012

A post-rape goodie bag from the Lord

The real Republican rape platform

By , Thursday 25 October 2012 07.30 EDT       Dear GOP candidates and party members, I’m going to give you some free campaign advice: stop talking about rape. The latest…  [more]

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Oct 23 2012

American exceptionalism in action

Jordan through evangelical Christian eyes – Disneyland with conversions

By , Tuesday 23 October 2012 03.30 EDT   I took a press trip round Jordan with a group of mostly evangelical Christian writers from the US last month.…  [more]

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Oct 22 2012

Denying the reality it tries to explain

If massacres like Cromwell’s avert suffering, perhaps they can be justified

By , Friday 19 October 2012 03.29 EDT   The pleasure of reading history is that it’s so much more unexpected than the news. Who would have…  [more]

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Oct 22 2012

We are all little girls now

These fondant fancies are baking little girls of us all

By , Friday 19 October 2012 16.30 EDT   The clock is broken. Everything points backwards. It is a truism that these are, for women, conservative times. Female…  [more]

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Oct 22 2012

As I ponder the gloom

Tap Dancing at the Cataclysm

By , 10/15/2012 12:41 pm   So there are two ants on a hill, see, and both feel the ground tremble and boom.  They notice a gargantuan creature — a sky-high behemoth —…  [more]

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Oct 22 2012

Pornographers of outrage

Pigs to the Lake: The Evangelical Exorcism

By , 10/18/2012  5:15 pm   In Mark 5, Jesus casts a legion of demons out of a man chained to a graveyard by sending them into a herd of pigs,…  [more]

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