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Archive**, Culture, Politics/LawJune 16, 2009

New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

By Frederick Clarkson

A brand new investigation of the Bush family reveals a religious narrative that strays from the official story circulated to supporters and the press. How many conversions did George W. actually have and why? How did a blue-blooded Episcopalian family come to represent the evangelicals of America?

Archive**, Culture, Politics/LawJanuary 5, 2009

Revelations from Family of Secrets (an addendum)

By Frederick Clarkson

Bush connections to JFK, the Bay of Pigs, and the Saudi royal family are investigated by renowned journalist Russ Baker in his new book, hot off the press.

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Florida's new bill aims to protect white people from feeling racial discomfort. But @robertpjones argues, "If we white Christians can muster the courage to walk in its company, discomfort with our racial history can be a sacred and saving gift." Read more: https://t.co/qF2iIYBqgP

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...is it ideologically bankrupt, it is intellectually lacking in every way. This person has *no idea* of wide swaths of literature on religious language that have paved the world for 50 years...What is there to say but pity the tree that died in the service of such hogwash?"

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A certain evangelical pub recently ran a piece against gender-neutral pronouns "they" (& for masculine ones) for G-d. Several writers & scholars asked to address the issue were dumbfounded, including one who responded: "I would be embarrassed to respond to it...Not only...

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