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October 06, 2006

Weariness in Iraq

A note from Iraq, Sgt. George E. Heath, 3/3 ACR Hey old man you always...

October 06, 2006

notes from Iraq

Another note from the front. Thanks to Sgt. George E. Heath, 3/3 ACR The shake...

October 06, 2006

notes from iraq, a father’s poem of three soldiers

Three more dead in Iraq soldiers in a sack the reason use to be threatened...

October 05, 2006

Stages

Denial Anger Grief Fear Shame Acceptance

October 05, 2006

Wal-Mart’s Generic Plan Solves Little

They are taking a saber to working people's arm and now they want credit for...

October 05, 2006

Compassion

A proverb that floats around charity and non-profit circles goes like this: "Without passion, nothing...

October 04, 2006

Rush Limbaugh?

"Let me ask you again, what does Mark Foley and all of this attention being...

October 04, 2006

The Silence of the Moral Majority, Part 2

After being lectured to by religious conservatives over the threat to the family of gay...

October 04, 2006

The Silence of the Moral Majority

After being lectured to by religious conservatives over the threat to the family of gay...

October 04, 2006

Pilgrim’s Progressive Christianity

I am adding my voice to the "blog-alogue" because our progressive Christian witness is still...

October 04, 2006

Rush Limbaugh Makes a Stand

"Look it, maybe the kid did it himself. I posited that possibility on Monday. You...

October 03, 2006

Lost in the Foley Mess

As the media continues to flood us with the details regarding the Foley scandel it...

October 02, 2006

The fruit the tree bares

Jesus told his deciples they would know the tree by the fruit it would bare....

October 02, 2006

BREAKING: ‘Focus on the Family’ issues scathing rebuke of House GOP leadership

Made you look!

October 02, 2006

About Rep. Foley

Florida's House Representative Foley must be thoroughly outed and admonished. As a mother and grandmother...

October 02, 2006

The sobering side of Salvation

Friends and fellow belivers, its time we set aside the peace and Love...

October 01, 2006

Foley is just the tip of the Iceberg

This is the True War on Terror; the battle begins not in some far away...

September 2006

September 30, 2006

Becoming a Father (A Political Manifesto)

Becoming a father has brought clarity to my soul - one could say spiritually and...

September 29, 2006

Surveillance in White and Black, or The Seven Deadly Sins of Progressives

Faithful Democrats are on the correct side of the torture and detention debate. However, I...

September 28, 2006

Faithless Democrats

Well, it's all over but the shouting...and screaming and pleas for mercy in Arabic, Pashto,...

September 28, 2006

Religious right needs to address other values

Former Senator Danforth is right. It is high time the Republicans unaligned themselves from the...

September 27, 2006

No Easy Way Out

I recently posted an article which said that the US should do more to reduce bloodshed...

September 27, 2006

An Open Letter to the Religious Right

Yes, I admit it...I lifted the entire post from 'Believers Against Bush,' but I hope...

September 27, 2006

If not now, when?

And if not us, who? Here's a simple thing we can do now to...

September 27, 2006

Thank You Representative Nancy Pelosi

Taking the House floor to demand an investigation of the Foley matter was a true act...

September 26, 2006

What if it were US Under the Boot?

Reading about the bloody rivalry between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, I struggle for a...

September 26, 2006

Torture mocks laws, civil and religious

The Crucifixion is not a model for justice. The evolution of Western values is...

September 26, 2006

Now what are we going to do about it?

Well, that's settled. We all agree torture is unequivocally evil. Yet we're faced with the...

September 25, 2006

Call 1-800-GOD-SAYS

[Robotic voice:] Information. City and state, please? Heaven. One moment please... [click...buzzz...whirrr...snap..snap...human voice...

September 24, 2006

New Testament Prayer and Politics

We're doing this all wrong Last week, I was reading in Epihany, one of my...