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Conflict Human Rights

Rwanda reloaded.

The horrible story is playing out again in the Congo.

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Liberalism

It isn’t 1933.

When we think that anyone to our right is quasi-fascist — and we say so! — we’re setting ourselves up to fail dramatically.

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Economics

Cambrich, Mass.

“Cambridge had the highest concentration of million-dollar homes of all large cities in the nation.”

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Culture

Emerson watch.

Some additional Ralph Waldo Emerson celebrations in honor of his 200th birthday on Sunday.

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Unitarian Universalism

Welcome!

The ranks of Unitarian Universalist bloggers keeps expanding!

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Islam

Which way to Mecca?

Clifford Geertz read 50 of the new books on Islam.

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Christianity in America Politics

Breached?

The Bush Administration picked a vulnerable spot in liberal doctrines about the wall separating church and state to insert the wedge of government funding.

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Site News

Vacation!

See you again on the brink of June.

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Christianity in America Reading Scripture

Elevation.

A Freedom Trail guide tells tourists that Puritans founded a “city set upon a hill” because they believed that the higher up you are, the closer you are to God.

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Conflict

Chris Hedges watch.

The author of “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” was all but booed off the stage during a commencement address in Illinois.