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Verse of the Day: A Warning to Oppressors
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jmcgee
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria,who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring something to drink!’<!– 2 –>The Lord God has sworn by his holiness: The time is surely coming upon you,when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of…
Voice of the Day: Howard Thurman
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jmcgee
Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak. This is a matter of tremendous significance, for it reveals to what extent a religion that was born of a people acquainted with persecution…
Brian McLaren: The Oil Stain Strategy in Iraq
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jmcgee
The other night a retired general appeared on CNN describing how to “win” in Iraq. Quoting analyst Andrew Krepinevich, he called for the “oil stain strategy”: Don’t spread our troops out thinly over a large region, but rather concentrate and dominate strongly in one or two places (Baghdad being one of them), thus letting security…
David Cortright: The North Korean Bomb is a Bush Administration Failure
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jmcgee
North Korea’s nuclear test is a major blow to the international nonproliferation regime, the first time a country has withdrawn from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and tested nuclear weapons. This is a disaster that did not have to happen. It represents a colossal failure of U.S. foreign policy. When the Bush administration came into…
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