Does Church Keep Black Women Single? - 2Scragged writers pay close attention to reader comments because we learn more from disagreement than from agreement. Sometimes a question reveals that we weren't as clear as we should have been. When the first article in what is now becoming a series ... |
Aug 31, 10 |
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Hearts of Darkness 8 - Religious Marketing A man died and went to heaven. Upon arrival, St. Peter offered to take him on a tour, and he readily agreed. They saw the Throne of God, the angel choir, the mansions of the great missionaries and apostles, and all the fantastic sights of Paradise.
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Jan 23, 09 |
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Hearts of Darkness 6 - A God of Order or of Chaos Most people today, when asked about the relationship between science and religion, would likely answer that they are inherently opposed. We've all heard how the Catholic Church forced Galileo to recant his belief that the earth revolved around the sun,... |
Jan 9, 09 |
Will Offensicht |
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Hearts of Darkness 3 - The Nature of God The great military strategist Sun Tzu said, "Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster." The West has not done well in combating terrorism, in large part because we aren't following Sun Tzu's advice concerni... |
Dec 19, 08 |
Will Offensicht |
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Hearts of Darkness 2 - Comparative Religion The introduction to this series pointed out that although religion appears to have more or less disappeared from European life and is on its way to vanishing from the lives of Western elites, religion has not disappeared from the Middle East. Whatever ... |
Dec 12, 08 |
Will Offensicht |
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Racism, Obama StyleMr. Obama is far too smart to get specific about all the changes he wants to make and the media won't push him, so we're left guessing. One way to understand his views is to look at the people he hangs out with.
Contrary to rumors floated by the Clin... |
Mar 7, 08 |
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The Bible and the Koran - Coke vs. Kool-Aid?Back in 1992, The End of History argued that with the collapse of communism, ideological conflict had ended. Without vast collisions of competing ideas, there would be no further advances in human history. Then came 9-11 and, as President Bush put it, ... |
Jan 7, 08 |
Will Offensicht |
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Dissolving the Rule of LawIn the fierce culture wars that have been waged in the U.S. for the last several decades, most arguments seem to eventually come down to "the children." Abortion, of course, is all about children, whether they be pre-born infants or fetuses. The Christ... |
Jul 30, 07 |
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