Steve Thorngate
Link bonanza: Inauguration edition
So I'm headed to DC this weekend, where I used to live and my fiancee
still does. We're excited to be in town for the inauguration—which isn't
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Rick Warren's conservative. So what?
While members of the religious right are upset that Rick Warren accepted President-elect Obama's invitation to give the invocatio...
"There's only diversity in the singular forms. Here we go."
My evangelical grade school tried to instill some big ideas—Creationist
talking points, "worldview formation," a vague yet fierce sense of
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Negotiating Black Friday
For more than a decade, Adbusters magazine has been promoting Buy Nothing Day, an anti-consumerist alternative to hittin...
On the shelf: Capitalism and Christianity, American Style, by William E. Connolly
What motivates so many evangelicals—with their preference for heavenly
treasure and their devotion to the Bible, a book full of diatribes
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On the shelf: 118 Days: Christian Peacemaker Teams Held Hostage in Iraq, edited by Tricia Gates Brown
When four men affiliated with Christian Peacemaker Teams were abducted in Iraq, ...
Election-night symbolism
Last Tuesday night, I went down to Chicago's Grant Park to witness
Barack Obama's election and victory speech. At the event, I was struck
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