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#DifficultJesus My pastor told a story yesterday about meeting with a Chinese woman after his sermon who reacted negatively after hearing that passage in the Bible about ‘hating your father and mother.’ If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother,
Go see it. I’m certainly glad that I did. The new film, “Love and Mercy” is a very good film detailing the troubled life of Brian Wilson, the unwieldy genius behind the Beach Boys. I wanted to post songs from the soundtrack (playlist below),
In a 5-4 ruling, today the U.S. Supreme Court found that the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. Full ruling here. Below are the dissents (scroll down). There’s more than a little irony here with Chief Justice Roberts dissenting here for the
Surveillance powers are about, wait for it, power. You can’t help but understand this as you read the newly revealed top secret transcripts typed out by some NSA pencil pusher listening in on the French president’s phone calls. Just put yourself in the shoes
Over 300,000 (and some estimate 1 million) Italians gathered in Rome over the weekend to protest proposed legislation sanctioning ‘gay marriage’ and new educational programs in public schools (there are no alternatives in Italy) which force students to cross-dress in order to experience different
Let’s get right to the good stuff–this is the man who wrote the recent article alleging that Russia and China have now obtained the Snowden documents. And he crumbles when asked basic Journalism 101 questions. You won’t believe this: Glenn Greenwald rips the report
It’s a serious documentary about chickens (well, kind of serious) and it’s also hilarious on so many levels. The Natural History of the Chicken, directed by Mark Lewis, is a film for all ages. It’s the only film that I’ve bothered to gather my
If you didn’t know, Kalief Browder is a young man who was held in a U.S. prison for three years without a trial for allegedly stealing a backpack. He spent a good percentage of that time in solitary confinement. He was sixteen years old.
In a spectacular display of hypocrisy, President Obama filed a motion in court to continue bulk collection of metadata of innocent Americans just hours after signing the ‘USA Freedom Act’–you know, the new law designed to end bulk collection by the government. (See the court
Short and sweet: We have a plan to boost strategic articles in opposition to renewing the badly named “Patriot Act” and aspects of the NSA debate and we need your help to do it. Even if the ‘Patriot Act’ survives Sunday evening (when it
