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May 2013

May 19, 2013
"Witnessing that terror and hopeless fear, seeing the suffering that it brought, I stopped thinking...
May 18, 2013
"Like many people who blindly support[ed] this war -- including perhaps many in the White...
May 17, 2013
Brian McLaren shares a confession, and a personal testimony, about the pernicious and pervasive temptation...
May 17, 2013
In Chapter 3, the authors destroyed the city of Chicago. Here we are, opening Chapter...
May 16, 2013
Does your denomination regard marriage as a sacrament? If so, Congratulations! You support marriage equality!...
May 15, 2013
"I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is...
May 14, 2013
"None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy...
May 14, 2013
Warren Buffett on the shortcomings of gold; Adam Smith on the importance of paying high...
May 14, 2013
"This is what is to be expected when 'promoting democracy' is given precedence over promoting...
May 13, 2013
Rhino-horn extract causes liver damage. Rhino-horn extract causes impotence. And baldness. Gout, flatulence, fatigue and...
May 13, 2013
"Simple brute force is useless for most of the problems we confront in life. What...
May 12, 2013
Leviticus 19:11-16: "You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall...
May 12, 2013
"Now, it’s tragic and probably heretical that this is how the American evangelical community decides...
May 11, 2013
In the long run, the arc bends toward justice and love wins. In the short...
May 11, 2013
"My point here is not to defend my earlier calculation that the Bush administration could...
May 10, 2013
The authors only need two Jewish characters because they only need to illustrate the two...
May 10, 2013
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. This...
May 10, 2013
"People come with physical bodies and those physical bodies come with genitalia and it's neither...
May 10, 2013
Siccing the modesty police on Beyonce won't help to stop sex trafficking. Beyonce isn't part...
May 09, 2013
Here's what we humans already knew and have known since before we started writing things...
May 09, 2013
The generational dynamic in 2013 turns out to be the same as it was 20...
May 09, 2013
Some Thursday morning links, including: Sure signs they're hiding something; The Myth of Certainty II;...
May 08, 2013
Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel is not accused or even suspected of any crime, but...
May 07, 2013
Set aside Corvino's tone and just consider the substance of his exegesis here. I don't...
May 07, 2013
Praying that someone shoots the Satanic baby-killers; policies "marked by a deep mistrust of the...
May 07, 2013
Americans like the Postal Service. They rely on it and rely on being able to...
May 06, 2013
I grabbed some take-out, took a quick nap, took a shower, took some Advil, took...
May 06, 2013
"In 1952, Congress passed a law establishing the National Day of Prayer as an annual...
May 05, 2013
Ezekiel 22:28-30: "Its prophets have smeared whitewash on their behalf, seeing false visions and divining...
May 05, 2013
"[Katy] Perry doesn’t 'slam' her strict, evangelical/fundamentalist upbringing nearly as much as she could or...
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