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Mormonism Reading Scripture

‘Thou sayest.’

Elizabeth Smart’s answer to police officers is being described as “Bible speak,” but it’s even more interesting than that.

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Conflict Worship

Helping people talk about war.

Plus worship resources from mainline denominations.

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Conflict

Neither gung-ho nor antiwar.

Joseph Nye evaluates the merits of Bush’s war plan.

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Mormonism

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.

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Conflict

Deadly peace.

“Morally, politically, financially, containing Iraq is one of the costliest failures in the history of American foreign policy.”

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Journalism Unitarian Universalism

Another Unitarian Universalist blogger.

Another UU World contributor has a blog worth your attention.

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Conflict

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.”

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Conflict

Military missions.

“The US government had grown increasingly dependent on its military to carry out its foreign affairs.”

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Conflict Politics Sacrament Unitarian Universalism

Crisis of faith.

Once the war begins, the movement that has tried to stop it is going to find itself deeply divided.

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Conflict Gender

Did Lysistrata wear pink, too?

“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.”