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No, not the one about Bill. Hillary’s Prayer is a great article from Jeff Sharlet about Hillary’s connections to a weird ecumenical quasi-fundamentalist group The Family. A group of religious power brokers in Washington that Sharlet has written about before.
And has this to say about it’s place in Hillary’s politics:

That’s how it works: [...]

In the last bit Yoder outlined how Man is trapped in the world, that he is both reliant on Power Structures (government, culture, the police state, etc…) to maintain some kind of order, and yet at that same time recognizes that those structures are themselves a form of tyranny that act to enslave Man.
After that [...]

[This is a religious post. Please read the Standard Disclaimer.]
Someone else said it better than me, “I am anti-statist. The State is the problem par excellence…The State is racist and violent to its core…”
This position obviously has a lot of problems. Both practical and logical. W/out the State how do you [...]

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So, the question remains. Why am I advocating for a Pauline radical equality in spite of verses like 1 Corinthians 14:34-36?
There are three reasons.
1. As I demonstrated yesterday 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 is on shaky ground to start with, so I while I accept its presence in the letter one [...]

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This post is about the bible, before you read any further please read my now standard disclaimer.
Alex, who by the way is honestly one of the smartest people I know and who might have all of first Corinthians literally memorized, points out in the comments to my post below:

That’s right, [...]

Just wanted to drop a pointer to another great article in Harpers by Jeff Sharlet.
Through A Glass Darkly
I always appreciate and agree with what Sharlet reports about evangelical Christianity, but there’s something about his tone that is infuriating.
Probably it’s sentences like this:

His followers must be dupes, or saps, or fools, their faith illiterate, insane, or [...]

I avoid all Christian Self Help books like the plague. There’s mostly nothing down that path but madness and thinly veiled ideas that were borrowed from the New Age Self Help aisle.
Most of it, flatly, is nonsense. Some of it is idiotic. And a certain share of it is downright dangerous.
Among the [...]

Douglas Rushkoff and Daniel Pinchbeck discuss myth, prophecy, and psychadelic drug use.

Related to this week’s earlier post about the GOP losing its hold over the religious right is the release of a new book by David Kuo entitled, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction.
I’ve written about David Kuo before. He was the number 2 guy in the Office of Faith Based Initiatives. [...]

A nice writeup in the Washington Post on how the may be losing its hold on evangelicals.
It’s tough to say really. In many ways Republicans haven’t done enough to satisfy their religious constituents. Add to that a growing frustration with the war in Iraq, and the elevation of things like poverty and torture [...]