Category: news
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Fox News and Reverse Discrimination
“Nearly 7-in-10 Americans who say they most trust Fox News say that discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minorities.” A recent survey by The Brookings Institution and the Public Religion Research Institute, “What It Means to be an American: Attitudes in an Increasingly Diverse America Ten…
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“God is Watching”
Elizabeth Dias on how some Christians are responding to the debt ceiling wrangling in Washington: Sojourners, a Christian social justice organization, ran a full-page ad in Politico on Thursday morning, warning politicians that “God is Watching” their actions. Sojourners’ supporters have sent nearly 100,000 emails to Congress on budget morality in the past two weeks.…
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Even with Bin Laden: “Forgiveness is first.”
Michael’s recent post about Bin Laden’s death is a wonderful example of a pastor doing good theology in response to an event that has grabbed everyone’s attention. Christians love enemies. We don’t celebrate at their deaths. If anything, we mourn their deaths because we mourn the deaths of those we love. At the heart or…
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Weekend Reading
The Atlantic has compiled a list of online resources to track developments from the Japanese earthquake. If the allegations are even mostly true, it’s infuriating to know that people live in fear in America of this sort of scenario. According to congregants’ legal testimonies gathered by the coalition, agents banged against the side of the…
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Weekend Reading
A short list this week. The snow storm that kept me away from home for a night also slowed some of my regular reading. As always, when you read something worth sharing, please let us know. Have a great weekend. An article in The New York Times highlights the growing percentage of Americans who cannot…
David W. Swanson 