Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism
Is a black person’s life worth anything in America? Not as long as America remains “Exceptional.”
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Guns and the Wyoming Legislator Proposing the Shari’ah Law Ban
Gerald Gay’s Second Amendment extremism and Islam.
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Bobby Jindal Squares Packing Heat with Jesus
Years ago a mother told me a story about her young son who liked to play cowboys and church, his very own role-playing game. One day she overheard him reenacting Jesus summoning Lazarus from the tomb; the little boy, toy gun in each hand, shouted, “Lazarus, come out with your hands…
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New Louisiana law allows armed “security forces” to carry concealed weapons in houses of worship.
Read MorePacking Heat At Unitarian-Universalist Service
A Wisconsin woman is arrested for bringing a piece for her Sunday morning peace?
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Hate the Sinner, Love the Gun
In the wake of the June 28th Supreme Court ruling, thoughts on the gun’s sacred role in US culture and our God-given right to be violent…
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A Scholar Responds: Scripture as a Weapon
A complement to Gary Laderman’s column on the gun-as-sacred-object: scholar Lou Ruprecht’s scriptural encounter with the Second Amendment and the NRA in a gun debate gone astray.
Read MoreClinging to God, Guns, Obama, and Freud
What Obama did say was that guns and religion are best assessed as morally neutral, until we see what people choose to do with them.
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It’s Bring Your Gun to Church Day
Christian Security Network; The Rev. Lowery & The Rev. Moon Cross Paths; Economic Crisis May Downsize Death Penalty; Christian Author’s $10,000 Challenge; and Conservatives in Hollywood donate to McCain/Palin.
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The Santa Killer: Death Imitating Art
When Bruce Pardo, dressed as Santa Claus, murdered friends and family on Christmas eve he was acting out a tragic bit of ceremonial violence, and borrowing an ironic and horrifying role from film and comics.
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