Tag: barack obama
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“So I had more of a safety net.”
Now, this is what I had a chance to talk about when I met with some young men from Hyde Park Academy who were participating in this B.A.M. program. Where are the guys I talked to? Stand up you all, so we can all see you guys. (Applause.) So these are some — these are…
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“…Romney’s Mormonism and Obama’s black liberation theology…”
I think there is a racial component to the incongruity in the way the media has treated Obama and Romney’s faiths. To be sure, both Romney’s Mormonism and Obama’s black liberation theology-infused Christianity still exist—in the minds of many Americans—outside the religious mainstream. Yet when it comes to “10 a.m. on Sunday morning [being] the…
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Presidential Politics: Good VS Evil
The following is a guest post from Lory Mishra who has been a friend to our family for a few years. She’s a recent college graduate with a witty sense of humor, legit cooking skills and, as you’ll read, a mind for insightful analysis. When Lory is not getting upset at the news, she’s usually obsessing…
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Peter Lovenheim wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times about his attempts to get to know his neighbors by spending one night in their homes. What would it take, I wondered, to penetrate the barriers between us? I thought about childhood sleepovers and the insight I used to get from waking up inside a…
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more james dobson et al.
I’m sorry. I don’t want to continue posting this kind of stuff, but something compels my fingers to type… Two articles today once again have me scratching my head about the actions of certain Christian leaders and spokespeople. From Michael Scherer of Time Magazine, At a meeting Tuesday in Denver, about 100 conservative Christian leaders…
David W. Swanson 