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Flood the Senate with calls today. CALL your Senators and someone else's. Tell them, "As a person of faith, I am against a compromise on detention and torture." (more…) Read more
By Diana Butler Bass My just-released book, Christianity for the Rest of Us (Harper, September 2006), presents the stories and findings of a three-year grass-roots study of spiritually vital mainline churches that involved interviews with more than 350 people. Although most media attention is directed toward evangelical megachurches and their political concerns, my research went the opposite direction: I was curious how moderate and liberal Protestants were renewing their old churches–and how their political and social views might be... Read more
I recently posted an article which said that the US should do more to reduce bloodshed between the Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq. That opinion of mine highlights a contradiction in Liberal Democrat thinking. We say we want American troops out of Iraq now, but we expect those same troops to stop Iraqi killing. Doesn’t make sense, does it? No, it doesn’t. War unleashes all kinds of forces that . . . (more…) Read more
Yes, I admit it…I lifted the entire post from 'Believers Against Bush,' but I hope they won't mind. (more…) Read more
If you read through McGovern's speeches during the Vietnam era and substitute "Iraq" for "Vietnam," you have a pretty clear critique of what's wrong with current policy: the lack of popular support, both here at home and in Iraq; the failure to appreciate the long history of internal divisions within the country; and the ruinous costs, reckoned in terms both of fiscal irresponsibility and squandered moral capital. (more…) Read more
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And if not us, who? Here's a simple thing we can do now to try and head off the abominable detainee-torture bill now before our legislators: CALL THEM! (more…) Read more
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