…shot dead Father James Coyle for marrying his daughter to a Puerto Rican, was acquitted and continued to preach the gospel.[5] Alabama was the national center for religious terrorism, with…
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…those in power to claim that sexual abuse is not torture, it is devastating to the thousands of sexual abuse survivors, and deadly to dozens each year. Putting a hedge…
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…seated at their tables. 15 Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, with the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the…
…case of a TV celebrity (now dead for 12 months), whose reputation has been torn to shreds in the last few weeks, as it has come to light that he…
…others. And in each case, the powerless lover died: Ahab killed Naboth; David killed Uriah; and with or without Simon’s help Jesus ended up dead, too. The powerless were martyred…
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…dancing to the Contemporary Christian culture war anthem “God’s Not Dead” on January 6th, 2021 confounded many outside observers, but those familiar with the Pentecostal and charismatic communities who tie…
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…the bombings, they were not fully seen as lives. If we cannot value someone as living, we cannot mourn when they are dead. Butler posits familiarity as the guiding force…