December 2010
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“Sure, people will say Jesus is the reason for the season, but Thor is the reason...”
– —Ed Stetzer, LifeWay president and a Southern Baptist pastor, in Survey: For many, Jesus isn’t the reason for the season, USA Today, 12/20/2010. Sad, but true. I’ve been wishing people a Merry Capitalist Holliday for years now. WWJD? Probably not trample someone for a great Black Friday...
Dec 22nd
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Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat The best four minutes on religion and politics I’ve ever seen. Thank you, Stephen Colbert. Key Quote: “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without...
Dec 19th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 8th
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“It’s hard to tire of Malcolm Gladwell’s stat that, from the millions of people...”
– -Paul Carr, NSFW: 404 Alcohol Not Found (Or, Social Media is Overrated, but it’s Helped me Stay Sober), TechCrunch, 11/27/2010. This is why people like Marshall Ganz, a Harvard Kennedy School professor who spent 16 years mobilizing for civil rights in Mississippi and working on the ground with...
Dec 5th