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Football Fever

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

http://www.churchtimes.net/templates/NewsTemplate_3.asp?recid=1229&table=new s&bimage=news&issue=7266&count=1 CHURCH TIMES London Close your service books – it’s time for kick-off by Hazel Southam THERE IS growing evidence that World Cup fever will strike churches this weekend. Churches of many denominations have joined a scheme to show England ‘s matches on big screens in churches and church halls. The spur was the […]

Conversational Terrorism

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by Dean and Marshall VanDruff, 1995 —————————————————————————- – All of the techniques listed in this document have actually been witnessed, told to us by someone else, or dreamed up. They are described in first person for clarity of motive. The intent of detailing and naming these insidious tactics is so that the reader may AVOID […]

Flag-Burning Versus Cross-Burning

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** Supreme Court Accepts Cross-Burning Case ** From Associated Baptist Press (ABP) … The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that symbolic burning of the American flag is free speech that is protected by the Constitution. But what about burning the cross? The high court is about to take on that question. Justices agreed May 28 […]

Discrimination Against Women?

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(Note, again: this article does not necessarily reflect my views. Rowland). Re-making the world —————————————————————————- —- Posted: June 21, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern  © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com No legal or political document is more slickly packaged yet more deceptively dangerous than the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Let’s take care […]

Greed Turns Out To Be Bad Business

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Paul Krugman Wednesday, June 5, 2002 Corporate mischief NEW YORK The point is, ladies and gentlemen, greed is good. “Greed works, greed is right … and greed, mark my words, will save not only Teldar Paper but the other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.” Gordon Gekko, the corporate raider who gave that speech in the […]

Abortion

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Monday, June 24, 2002 ** Christian Medical Association: Partial-Birth Abortion Inflicts Horrific Pain on Unborn ** A 16,000-member professional association of doctors says that legislation to ban partial-birth abortion is needed to stop a barbaric practice that inflicts horrific pain on developing infants. The Christian Medical Association expressed its support for the bipartisan Partial-Birth Abortion […]

Tv And Violence

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Evangelical news agency idea Germany Politician and Bishop Demand “Disarmament of the TV Screen” Increasing Violence Worries German Public  ­ Schroeder’s Challenger Meets Female Bishop Hanover, June 5 (idea)  ­ — Edmund Stoiber, conservative challenger of the German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at the upcoming general elections, and the Lutheran Bishop Margot Kaessmann have called for […]

Ethical Medical Research

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June 25 2002 see http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,725465,00.html and MEDIA RELEASE “Do No Harm”, a coalition of Australians who support ethical medical research. Let’s be Adult about Stem Cells The one essential fact – that we can harness the magnificent healing power of stem cells without ever destroying human embryos- has so far been successfully buried under a […]

Are We Alone?

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(From a thoughtful member of a list I subscribe to) Rowland Recent photographs from the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope using the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) reveal a myriad of galaxies stretching back into the 13 billion year evolution of the universe. Some would argue that however improbable life as we know it […]

The Age Of Acquiescence

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By MAUREEN DOWD ASHINGTON – A friend of mine over the weekend was recalling her days as an idealistic child of the 60’s. Students sitting around the dorm, amid the water bongs, water beds, strobe lights and Che posters, listening to Led Zeppelin and Dylan, dreaming about remaking the world in their own image, trading […]

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