Elizabeth Smart’s answer to police officers is being described as “Bible speak,” but it’s even more interesting than that.
Month: March 2003
Plus worship resources from mainline denominations.
Neither gung-ho nor antiwar.
Joseph Nye evaluates the merits of Bush’s war plan.
Utah’s wacky prophets.
We’ll be hearing more about the strange kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, but here’s a start on the “prophet” who abducted her.
Deadly peace.
“Morally, politically, financially, containing Iraq is one of the costliest failures in the history of American foreign policy.”
Another UU World contributor has a blog worth your attention.
Going alone.
“The issue here isn’t that France opposes us. That doesn’t bother me particularly. The real point is that everyone opposes us. Everyone.”
Military missions.
“The US government had grown increasingly dependent on its military to carry out its foreign affairs.”
Once the war begins, the movement that has tried to stop it is going to find itself deeply divided.
“For progressive women, in 2003, to fall back on the ideology of woman-as-peaceful-outsider rings as false as Phyllis Schlafly pretending to be a housewife.”
