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August 2012

August 15, 2012
By Crystal St. Marie LewisR3 Contributor“I AM what I AM…” (Exodus 3:14)“I AM.” And that’s...
August 15, 2012
Might be a hard pill to swallow, but the rapper who reminded us that Jesus...
August 15, 2012
The good king, according to Thomas Aquinas, had to be motivated by charity. Love must...
August 15, 2012
"Radicalism," particularly in the context of religion, evokes ambivalent if not conflicting reactions. On the...
August 15, 2012
In selecting Paul Ryan for his running mate, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has made...
August 13, 2012
Sometimes, it is tough being a liberal. Rush and his legions of loyal Dittoheads call...
August 13, 2012
It's mourning in America again. Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that the blood of the innocent...
August 12, 2012
In July of 1844, word reached New York that Joseph Smith Jr., founder of the...
August 11, 2012
Mitt Romney continues to keep his Mormon faith off the presidential campaign stage, despite the...
August 11, 2012
This has been the summer of discontent with David Barton. First, in a poll taken...
August 09, 2012
From supporters of President Obama to Tea Party activists Americans agree that we live in...
August 09, 2012
Is anyone who doesn't already hate Obama for the usual right-wing reasons really going to...
August 09, 2012
In the last few months, considerable attention has been devoted to Mitt Romney's tax returns...
August 09, 2012
Confession time: I am an Anabaptist. Not just a cradle Menno/Brethren, but also an Anabaptist...
August 08, 2012
"Michelle and I are shocked and saddened by the horrific and tragic shooting in Colorado....
August 08, 2012
"Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety andwelfare of...
August 08, 2012
In 2011, I attended Shimon Peres's Presidential Conference, "Facing Tomorrow," in Israel. Headliners included Tony...
August 08, 2012
The most dangerous enemy is the one who most resembles you. That is why the...
August 07, 2012
The other day, one of those Internet memes was making the rounds, this one lamenting...
August 06, 2012
Pastor Rick Warren has over 600,000 followers on Twitter. Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest,...
August 05, 2012
by Earle J. FisherR3 ContributorOne of the most common tropes in the Christian faith tradition...
August 04, 2012
Jack Schaap was the pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, the largest Independent...
August 03, 2012
When I saw that you study at Notre Dame, I thought it was interesting, because...
August 02, 2012
I didn't know that I was an evangelical until I was 22, though I grew...
August 02, 2012
A budget is a moral document. That phrase was coined by the faith community and...
August 02, 2012
The more seriously one takes the Bible, the more seriously one should be willing to...
August 02, 2012
One of the most disturbing things about the American public's reaction to the recent theater...
August 02, 2012
As a Mississippian and as a Baptist Christian, I cringed the other day when I...
August 02, 2012
Listening to the cacophony of the Republican nomination race, and now the presidential hopefuls, I...
August 02, 2012
“They think that they are us, but they are nothing like us.”An insight or two...
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