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  • new evngelical musical coming to nyc's vineyard theater

    http://www.vineyardtheatre DOT org/show-this-beautiful-city.htm i'm not associated with the theater or show, but wanted people to know about it. it dramatizes interviews of people effected by the evangelical movement. while it was being written, haggard's scandal broke.
    Posted to Faith-Based by dm10003 on January 29, 2009

  • out in the open

    I think Obama knows exactly what he is doing. By inviting Warren to give the inaugural invocation, he is inviting deeper scrutiny of Warren's theological positions. This scrutiny and the ensuing debate has the potential to generate some new understanding about the nature of these popular ''Churchianity'' religions and their own failings. ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by ldepath on December 20, 2008

  • imperfection

    We would like to think that things are simple enough to be perfectly consistent. They are not, of course. Solzhenitsyn was not only an amazingly brave anti soviet writer, he was also a classic xenophobic Russian nationalist creep. Everybody behaves in what we perceive as contradictory ways, which really means that our definitions are simply ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Simeon Joffe on August 4, 2008

  • Cynicism

    Cynicism is very useful when it comes to political structures. Usually it is born out of disillousonement of former held idealist but unrealistic goals or wrong perceptions about the social reality and can be helpful in getting the facts straight. However, the political system of the USA or other liberal democracies is not perfect enough to be ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Mel Olontha on April 8, 2008