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What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

…to tell whether this wing of the Party will indeed establish itself as the new orthodoxy. I have my doubts. But even if they do, the victory will be a Pyrrhic one, resulting (as both Paul’s symbolic victory in the New Testament and Tertullian’s Christian self-exile did) in mass expulsions of those with variant points of view on the central articles of the faith, and those less convinced that absurdity is a strong selling point for religion, politi…

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Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

…in the rejection of all that came before that fall might be used to seed a new time in our history. I hoped that my nation might be headed in a new direction. I hoped that my people might be more generous and open. I hoped that the wars might finally come to an end. I hoped that the government might rule fairly, for all. What have we received instead? A week after the election, we find that those who laugh at the idea of justice are returned to po…

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Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

…hat there is a way for progressive Christian voices to be heard and form a new church—not a new denomination, but a new way of being the church. I truly think that can happen. I know it can happen because I’ve lived it. I’ve lived it in Eugene. When we became a reconciling congregation, not only did the doors open wider, but many of the gatekeepers of the old rigid order left. We were then able to be the church in a new way. We weren’t just church…

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Creating a Cell: Science Plays God

…but certainly it all has the potential to be at least good. Humans create new humans all the time. It’s how we nurture those new creations that matters. Here is where to spend our energy. I suppose you could argue, and it certainly has been argued, that ‘in the beginning’ God created everything as it is now, in which case when new things are created in this burgeoning field of Venter’s known as synthetic biology, you might be a bit miffed. But fa…

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