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The Rage of Moloch – An Old Testament god thriving on our children

December 28, 2012

Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks! Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulles...

Death, Violence and America: Is God the Answer or the Problem?

Craig M. Watts

December 27, 2012

General

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Whenever there is a tragedy in America you can count on some politically saturated Christian leaders to rush in to make stupid statements. Certainly it has happened again with the heartbreaking murders in the S...

Republicans "Own" Every Child Killed by a Gun and their Weeping Parents

Frank Schaeffer

December 24, 2012

General

BY: FRANK SCHAEFFER -- Who wants to "own" the pictures of weeping mothers? The Republican Party does. As if killing themselves with anti-gay...

Five Children’s Questions About the Sandy Hook Tragedy

Christian Piatt

December 18, 2012

General

I’ve seen plenty of articles responding to the shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Some are angry, some pastoral, still others, prophetic in their call for change in various forms. I have little to add to ...

The Grammar of Gun Control

Morf Morford

December 18, 2012

Church Life, General

BY: MORF MORFORD -- We treat guns as a thoroughly dysfunctional family might talk about a family scandal; we just don't...

Bullshit National Grieving

Kent Annan

December 17, 2012

General

A resounding gong, a clanging cymbal, bullshit: that is what this all-too-familiar national liturgy of grief is when it's acted out once again without having taken the available steps to avoid repeating this ...