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Must reading: Today’s Times has a report on the persecution of Christians in India. The photo above shows Christian refugees praying at a camp in Bhubaneshwar. It’s harrowing, harrowing stuff. An excerpt below, followed by a prayer. God help them:  A few steps from where the nun had been attacked in Nuagaon, five men, their heads freshly…

Mark Bittman–author of the most essential cookbook ever (I open it just about every single week)–offers cautious hope about the state of our food culture in this weekend’s NY Times Magazine:  [F]ood continues to be fetishized; organic food has been commodified; the federal government subsidizes almost all of the wrong kinds of food production; supermarkets peddle…

For Sunday morning – A San Francisco Chronicle reader finds a prophecy about the struggling 49ers: Editor – I was doing my daily Bible reading – yes, even in San Francisco some people do this – when I came across old Jeremiah’s 2,500-year-old insight into the performance of the Niners again this week: “What are…

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