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Two words to say about the current state of the Republican presidential nominee campaign: Good grief. I’ve discussed before my frustration with the attitude of “born again” Christian candidates seeking to challenge President Obama in 2012. Both Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry have surged and stumbled, either through misstatements that revealed unrepentant ignorance of the…

Been thinking a lot lately about forgiveness. Now the usual sequence with this virtue, most of us have been told, is to “forgive and forget.” That’s what God does, according to scripture: “Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;…

Looking at the Occupy Wall Street crowd and its clones in cities nationwide, I understand the frustration over the economy in general – and sigh, deeply, at the movement’s lack of a unified message. But as diverse as the folks participating in these protests are, one strong, focused set of demands or proposals is a…

When you are raised in a fundamentalist, Pentecostal preacher’s home, there’s usually just no debate about it: Halloween is when the Devil runs amok, and real Christians have nothing to do with it. Well, at least that’s how it started for me as a kid. In retrospect, I believe it was more a reflection of…
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