As tragic as the Virginia Tech shootings are, let’s face it: 32 dead is a slow day in U.S.-occupied Iraq.
Should we not cry for all the dead? Why do we cry for some and not those thousands of others?
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- What are they saying?
- As tragic as the Virginia Tech shootings are, let’...
- Woody Guthrie and Jesus Christ
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- Yep, Sex is on the Evangelical Mind
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- Christianity and Culture
- Asserting the Present and Settling the Past
- "Rapture Threat Level Orange"
- Iraq: A Money Pit
- The Great "Is" in Who "Is" Jesus?
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- Deciding the Decider: A Struggle over Meaning
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- In the name of God, what are you doing?
- A Fair Hearing for All Views...and other Jokes
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- "They must see Americans as strange liberators."
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