Category: Religion
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Keillor hates the Jews…
Ok, that title is just inflammatory, but it\’s not too far from the truth. I came across this article critiquing something Keillor wrote in the Baltimore Sun (??? – really… why the Baltimore Sun?). http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2009/12/22/14492/cool_it_keillor_its_a_multicultural_world_out_there You can read the original Keillor article from the Sun here. Is this Keillor\’s \”I\’m as mad as hell and…
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If I Ran The World: Gay Marriage Edition
The furor over California\’s passage of Proposition 8, an amendment to the state\’s constitution banning same-sex marriage, continues to boil. Newsweek had a recent cover story discussing whether or not the Bible supports or condemns gay marriage. I found the article poorly researched and not well written, something I would expect on a blog (insert…
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thank you, herbert w. chillstrom
as a christian, i am often frustrated by those in public life who hijack that term in order to justify discrimination and hatred. people pick out-of-context snippets of the bible– often using out-of-date translations in the process– to claim that they have \”spiritual basis\” for attitudes that are completely out of alignment if you read…
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My Favorite Holiday Songs
Thanks to my lovely wife and her family, I\’ve become addicted to listening to holiday music starting Thanksgiving Day. Each year I can\’t wait for KOOL 108 to ditch their normal oldies play lists for the sounds of Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Nat King Cole, and Jose Feliciano. After listening to KOOL 108 for 4…
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allah be praised… most of the time.
in case you haven\’t heard of the latest airline / muslim kerfuffle, go here. (Then come back.) oy. well, i guess it depends on what version of the story you believe. if you believe this one: Shahin said Tuesday that three members of the group prayed in the terminal before the six boarded the plane…
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Letters to God… for sale!
I was reading this article about a man in New Jersey who found a bag full of letters meant for God that had been kept by a New Jersey minister who had passed away. The last bit of that article infuriated me. The man who found these letters; which contain very private, personal, revealing information…
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Katherine Kersten: Conservative Columnist or Right-Wing Wack-Job?
One of my least favorite Star Tribune columnists, Katherine Kersten, now has a new blog titled \”Think Again\”. At first glance you certainly wouldn\’t label Kersten a \”right-wing wack-job\”. But if you read enough you\’ll start to see the double standard she brings to her column.
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Faith
As most of you have either heard, read, or seen by now, a man in rural Pennsylvania stormed an Amish schoolhouse, took all the girls prisoner, killed 5 of them, seriously injured the rest, before killing himself. A quote in an article yesterday by one of the victim\’s father was: \”We think it was God\’s…