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Seeking The Kingdom
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By David Gushee
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
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(ABP) -- The recent release of four key memos from President Bush’s Justice Department does not exhaust the revelations that are still to come related to the brutal interrogation policies of our government in the years following the 9/11 attacks. But the memos and a recently leaked February 2007 Red Cross report on the same subject now provide us the best evidence yet concerning both what the Bush administration authorized, in its dry legalese, and what the implementation of those policies actually looked like as experienced individually by its victims. |
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
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(ABP) -- The Christian faith presents as its central image a bleeding man dying a cruel death on a Roman cross. We say that this Friday-afternoon misery was the central event in both human and divine history. We most often emphasize that the cross was redemptive -- it opened the door to the world’s salvation. But it was also representative -- it signifies and represents our human story. And Christians believe it signifies and represents God’s story as well. |
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Friday, March 27, 2009 |
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(ABP) -- Over the last ten years I have written two books and countless articles in which I suggested and hoped that the culture war between cultural conservatives and cultural liberals would -- and should -- end. I now wave the white flag. I now say that America’s culture war appears to be endless, and our culture warriors appear to have an endless appetite for conflict. I say this with reluctance and a measure of despair. |
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By David Gushee
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
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(ABP) -- Trinity College’s American Religious Identification Survey was released March 9. Its headline finding, as summarized by USA Today: “Faith is shifting, drifting or vanishing outright.” The news that “almost all denominations are losing ground” is sobering indeed. It helps to clarify that recent budget cuts in Baptist life and elsewhere are not just about our current Great Economic Meltdown, but instead dovetail with a broader fade of organized American Christianity.
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
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(ABP) -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has begun hearings exploring the possibility of establishing a “Truth Commission” to investigate Bush policies in several areas related to national security. I want to comment here in favor of an inquiry on the subject of torture, leaving other issues aside for now. |
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