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Date: 01/25/2012
OK, I admit it. I have a Google Alert on the title Flunking Sainthood , so that the search engine lets me know when there are new reviews or discussions about the book. In the last few weeks it has been exciting -- and humbling -- to see the many different kinds of people who are reading and talking about the memoir and about spiritual practice. What's astonishing to me is that the book i ...
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Date: 01/18/2012
Dr. Roscoe Brown , who flew planes as one of the heroic WWII Tuskegee Airmen, a black man defending a country still cruelly segregated, fighting in one of the most honored military divisions in American history, saw a film made about their heroic missions and last week attended the White House to meet with the first black President and First Lady of the United States. It is called "Red Tails" a ...
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Date: 12/21/2011
To receive the joy of Christmas, we must deny ourselves courageously, which enables us to bow low humbly to receive the Infant King from the manger of the cattle stall to the manger of our hearts. If our hearts are clean of any sin that would block His royal entry into the deepest secret of our heart, we will be all the more ready to receive our Lord this Christmas with the ...
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Date: 12/01/2011
Obama's Secret 'Green' Bank Exposed The Secret Government Bank That's Financing More Solyndras ... Sitting at the center of the Solyndra scandal is an off-balance-sheet bank at the Treasury Department that dates back to 1973. This little-known government bank, the Federal Financing Bank [FFB], had a zero balance in 2008 for green energy projects, but now, with little Congressional oversi ...
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Date: 11/28/2011
[caption id="attachment_791" align="alignleft" width="240" caption=""I hate silence when it is a time for speaking." -Kassia"] [/caption] If there were any doubt that women were preachers before the twentieth century, this should put it to rest once and for all. The ninth-century nun, Kassia, was probably the most famous in a line of women preachers who put their sermons into musica ...
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Date: 11/25/2011
Governor Rick Perry, so goes the conventional wisdom, is a real conservative. How could he not be? After all, his three terms as governor of Texas has marked a period of spectacular job creation. It has been said that nearly 40% of all jobs in the United States at present are to be found in the lone star state. In addition to this consideration, there are several others to substantiate the ...
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Date: 11/22/2011
Second only to Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann is the most consistent of the GOP presidential candidates when it comes to the subject of liberty. Her record is, for the most part, commendable. Beyond this, Bachmann strikes the unprejudiced and prejudiced observer alike as a woman of conviction, a woman with a keen intelligence, intestinal fortitude, and the ability to articulate her views with conci ...
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Date: 11/20/2011
A Canadian who saw a woman stranded on a Wisconsin highway with a flat tire stopped and helped -- only to have the tables turned on him a few miles down the road when she saved his life. [caption id="attachment_9448" align="alignleft" width="405" caption="Sara Berg"] [/caption] "Indiana-bound Victor Giesbrecht, 61, a father of four from Winnipeg, was driving east Saturday evening on Interstat ...
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