By Stan A Moody
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| Oct. 06, 08 11:38 |
It is a form of optimism that focuses on appearance rather than reality
- the spin rather than the facts.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Sep. 23, 08 08:19 |
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The
Church is locked into a mindset of Israel
as the Promised Land acquired by the parting of the Red Sea and the Jordan River and rightfully entitled to whatever it wants
wherever it wants it.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Sep. 16, 08 09:15 |
| The election of John
McCain may well condemn us all to the war ethic he and his supporters cannot
seem to leave behind.
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By Rachel Noel Johnson
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| Sep. 12, 08 13:27 |
Below is the summary for the session:
Healing the
(American) Christian Relationship with the Muslim World
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By Rachel Noel Johnson
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| Sep. 12, 08 08:22 |
Below is a summary of the session:
What the
Torture Debate Reveals about American Christianity
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By Eric Sapp
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| Sep. 11, 08 06:23 |
| In the years since 9/11, I have found myself thinking back on and regretting
September 12 even more.
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By Eric Sapp
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| Sep. 08, 08 12:48 |
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When we talk about actually addressing the
problem instead of arguing whether it exists, Democrats win, and America wins,
and women win.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Sep. 01, 08 07:48 |
| What has been gnawing at me is the sense that
I have encountered numerous Sarah Palins in the past - hard driving, positive,
narrowly-focused "Hockey Moms" set on
conquering America
for God, skipping the inconvenience of credentials and experience.
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By Robert Tice Lalka
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| Aug. 21, 08 20:10 |
Discussing the McCain campaign's latest attacks
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By Jesse Lava
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| Aug. 17, 08 10:19 |
McCain wins the head game, but his hypocrisy will go largely unnoticed. Again.
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By Rachel Noel Johnson
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| Aug. 10, 08 21:10 |
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we find someone who arouses within us the ability to hope despite our dire
circumstances, should we run in the opposite direction?
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By Rachel Noel Johnson
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| Jul. 22, 08 10:30 |
If we as a nation need to respond to a world in
crisis, even more so do people of faith need to protect a despoiled creation.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jul. 15, 08 00:25 |
Today, there are
shepherds of Christian flocks in America for whom even the appearance of angels
would not persuade them that the returning Christ will not set His brogans
right down on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem - and soon.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jul. 08, 08 01:00 |
| Colonialism and
imperialism triumph over tribalism because their histories can be chronicled in
blood and borders.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jun. 30, 08 18:41 |
Patriotism rears its ugly head as the
righteous umbrella of oil and Zionism.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jun. 04, 08 11:40 |
| "I would not rule becoming his (Obama's) running mate if it will help the Party win in November."
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By Stan A Moody
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| May. 19, 08 09:14 |
The righteousness of the free enterprise system masking occasional greed, our President may well enjoy the family fruits of appeasement.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Apr. 29, 08 11:53 |
| Hillary's strategy is to appeal to establishment Democrats by urging Superdelegates either to vote for her on the first ballot or to abstain, thereby throwing open the Convention.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Apr. 14, 08 19:36 |
In light of that, let's bump Obama up to a B on the Iococca index...
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By Stan A Moody
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| Apr. 08, 08 09:24 |
| In Hagee's telling, Israel has no choice but to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, with or without America's help.
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By Rachel Noel Johnson
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| Mar. 30, 08 21:03 |
| Instead of being praised for her
daily faith practices, Sen. Clinton has come under attack because the
Christian fellowship she keeps is bi-partisan.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Mar. 24, 08 09:28 |
In a word, they don't like Jeremiah Wright because he forces us to face our sin.
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By Rachel Noel Johnson
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| Mar. 19, 08 20:33 |
| If we insist that our
politicians attend flawless congregations, then we must be prepared to no longer
see their faces in worship.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Mar. 05, 08 16:34 |
| We have become a nation addicted to reality TV, and it's now spilling dangerously over into real life.
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By Rachel Noel Johnson
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| Feb. 13, 08 19:50 |
Faithful Democrats around the country should take a moment to check out the race for Congress in Virginia’s 5th District.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Feb. 10, 08 18:38 |
In the spirit of "It's My Turn" Bob Dole, Republicans once again choose fear over progress; tradition over hope; stay-the-course over humility.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jan. 30, 08 05:32 |
Nostalgia runs wild this week in the seeming vapidity of our
current Presidential wannabees. But
then, who would have given Harry Truman a chance for greatness?
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jan. 19, 08 19:03 |
| The mere exercise of
superimposing Burt Lancaster will instantly translate Elmer Gantry into South Carolina or Mike
Huckabee into Gritzmaker Springs, KA....
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jan. 05, 08 13:58 |
Not bad, I will have to say! Do we dare dream of morning in America? On the other hand, I'll have another helping of that crow, if you don't mind.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Dec. 31, 07 14:41 |
| Somehow there is an awfully big disconnect between an exploding
bus in India and baby powder at a Saratoga
County office building.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Dec. 19, 07 14:23 |
Huckabee's answer to the "two state solution" is the ethnic cleansing of Palestine:
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By Stan A Moody
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| Dec. 10, 07 11:32 |
Is there any thinking person left out there who still wonders about that wild look in Huckabee's eyes?
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By Stan A Moody
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| Dec. 03, 07 07:44 |
| Our troops and our citizens deserve better than this. The backdrop for heroism is not imperialism
with its contrived glories. The backdrop
for heroism is service where war has become inevitable.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Nov. 16, 07 11:15 |
The Christian worldview being one of humility and service, no Bible-thumping candidate could possibly be on Jesus' side. Heck, even the Church, the "Bride of Christ," is not on Jesus' side these days.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Oct. 21, 07 16:34 |
To curse Palestinian Christians by rendering them faceless and through policies intended to push them out of their homes and across the Jordan River is to curse Abraham.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Oct. 15, 07 18:46 |
The "good" are those who believe in their unchallenged ideologies and little else; the "evil" are the rest of us to varying degrees.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Oct. 07, 07 14:03 |
One blogger had a bit of fun. "I've had a vision of a 900-foot Jewish guy who wants me to build a center to find a cure for clergy corruption," he said.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Sep. 24, 07 07:33 |
| Blackwater is well-named: You cannot see beyond its surface. What lies beneath the surface, however, can be fatal.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Sep. 13, 07 08:58 |
| If you are a family of four, your contribution to the war is $1,200 a year. Are you getting your money's worth?
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By Stan A Moody
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| Aug. 28, 07 12:58 |
Come to think of it,
I recall hearing some foot-tapping during my sermon last Sunday. Looks like I’m good to go for another term!
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By Stan A Moody
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| Aug. 27, 07 11:39 |
| By its profound coarsening of both theology and politics, it may already have departed, leaving the rest of us to pick up the pieces.
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By Patrick Hornbeck
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| Aug. 26, 07 20:42 |
The nationally divisive debate on gay issues sparked by President Bush’s proposal for a constitutional amendment on marriage in the run-up to the 2004 election is nowhere near settled.
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By Eric Sapp
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| Aug. 23, 07 17:00 |
| Mother Jones "outs" Hillary Clinton as a devout Christian who's in a private prayer group in DC. That's meant to hurt her, but the Clinton campaign couldn't buy validation like that.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Aug. 12, 07 17:00 |
| At the end of the day, there is no such thing
as a homosexual corpse -- only dead corpses and, of course, spiritual ones, like
the church in question.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Aug. 10, 07 10:55 |
| The notion that punishment of the
hate-mongering right will accomplish anything but entertainment for the
hate-mongering left is fantasy land.
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By Jesse Lava
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| Jul. 22, 07 09:05 |
For decades, Republicans have made opposition to abortion the foundation of their national coalition. Strangely, though, they haven't actually passed anything particularly significant to reduce the number of abortions in the U.S. The Democrats, however -- long demonized for being "pro-abortion" -- have now passed an initiative in the House of Representatives to cut down on the abortion rate.
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By Jesse Lava
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| Jul. 12, 07 09:57 |
Cal Thomas seeks to expose Hillary as something less than truly Christian. Too bad he has to lie to prove his point.
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By Jesse Lava
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| Jul. 04, 07 09:40 |
| On Independence Today, Paul and Martin Luther King Jr. remind us what it means to be free.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jun. 22, 07 09:10 |
Extremists are everywhere. In the past week the world has
witnessed the extremism of Hamas in Gaza,
knowing that every act of extremism places resolution further away.
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