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BiILLIONAIRE EGOMANIACS by Carol Wolman, MD A few egomaniacs are destroying our world. They are devouring our minds, our pocketbooks, our individuality. Some of them believe they will be raptured by Jesus, even though they are disobeying everything he...
by cwolman
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 03:58 PM PST
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It’s been a busy week. Though I am not a veteran, on Tuesday, I was proud to join a contingent from Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Jefferson City, Missouri to speak up for Palestinians and against genocide in public testimony on Missouri House bill HCR30,...
by greenandblue
on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 03:00 PM PST
with 9 Recommends
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The church I attend is a liturgical church, which means each service contains a time of confession. In yesterday’s service, our associate pastor, Rev. Dr. Lauren Jones Mayfield, used this time to address the situation in the Middle East. I was so moved...
by ForwardKY
on Mon Oct 16, 2023 at 05:50 PM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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Things are crazy in America. We’re operating without a Speaker of the House for the first time in our history. Our Congress is full of Climate Change/Science deniers. An entire political party has sold itself to the cult of Donald Trump, a bona fide...
by Benthovens5th
on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 09:06 PM PDT
with 69 Recommends
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Tonight this old lapsed Methodist will spend the night in prayer and meditation on the grief and pain enveloping the Holy Land once again due to acts of violence. May all who have been wounded be healed, may all who have been slain find peace, may all...
by McCrowlerr
on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 11:40 PM PDT
with 77 Recommends
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This is a prayer I say each evening before going to bed. It is devotional and separate from any spellwork I may do. I created this for myself; it is mine to offer freely for others to use or gain ...
by A Pagan in Arizona
on Tue Sep 05, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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Imagine if progressives really were as shrewd, Machiavellian, and self-interested as conservatives like to claim we are. What if there was some dark, sinister purpose—yet to be revealed—behind Michael Dukakis putting on that tank helmet? Or maybe we...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
on Tue Mar 21, 2023 at 11:52 AM PDT
with 363 Recommends
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Sometimes one is asked to “say a few words” before a Thanksgiving meal. What should one say, when: One is not religious and/or does not identify with the predominant religious identity of the assembled group of people? The assembled group itself is...
by DoctorH
on Mon Nov 21, 2022 at 07:08 AM PST
with 13 Recommends
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“Transformative Politics” - A Lost Manuscript Shows the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/obama-lost-book-manuscript.html My synopsis — selected quotes from the above essay: abolishing...
by hughwill
on Mon Oct 10, 2022 at 01:11 PM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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We currently face at least six pandemics in our world: 1) COVID-19 2) Racism 3) War 4) Police brutality and militarization of police 5) Climate change 6) Economic inequity In the face of these pandemics and the related refugee crises, world hunger,...
by mbenefiel
on Thu Jul 28, 2022 at 11:34 AM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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Eve shaming discomfits girls. So DeSantis law may force us to ban Bibles in FLORIDA schools. It "hurts feelings” when bible insists female birth pain punishes all women for bible Eve trying to get an education. By bookbanner logic, we must not make...
by Neon Mama
on Tue Jul 12, 2022 at 10:06 AM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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Let Us Pray (to the Supreme Court) Please stand and let us pray O’ Mighty Supreme Court Blessed are your rulings. Tell us what to do today And to whom we must be forced to pray Besides ...
by Paul Frea
on Wed Jun 29, 2022 at 10:30 AM PDT
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I can see what it about to happen. The evangelicals preach & declare America was founded as a Christian nation. That is the only religion they recognize. You stop them cold when you speak of raiding and stealing from the Native Americans...described as...
by Vetwife
on Mon Jun 27, 2022 at 01:17 PM PDT
with 28 Recommends
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In these times of bellicose threats of nuclear war from world leaders, not to mention various wars around the world, how can one work for peace? What impact can an ordinary person have? What does soulful leadership for peace look like? Prayer and...
by mbenefiel
on Thu Apr 28, 2022 at 12:50 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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After years of arguing that the actions of school board officials in Bremerton, Wash., violated his rights to free speech and free exercise of religion, a coach has finally successfully taken his case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court heard oral...
by Aysha Qamar
on Tue Apr 26, 2022 at 10:39 AM PDT
with 53 Recommends
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In a move that sets the U.S. back in terms of religious freedom, the Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected an argument that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wrongfully applied federal law governing how surveillance-related evidence can...
by Aysha Qamar
on Tue Mar 08, 2022 at 02:15 PM PST
with 55 Recommends
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We are all in the midst of an existential threat, not only from dictators, but from climate change. The future is in the present. I found a site that if you scroll down, you can hear beautiful chant, that brings hope and peace. Chant I know that...
by gbriel777
on Mon Mar 07, 2022 at 01:46 AM PST
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I want to share one of my favorite classical pieces that touches my soul. Most people know Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (you’ve heard it in commercials around Christmas), but Vivaldi’s Gloria RV 589 contains one of the most beautiful songs ever written...
by Peter Olandt
on Thu Mar 03, 2022 at 07:14 PM PST
with 16 Recommends
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No doubt Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison hoped his recent declaration on 60 Minutes that “I’ve worn out the carpet on the side of my bed ... on my knees, praying and praying” would have boosted perceptions of his character, recently attacked...
by Alan Austin
on Mon Feb 28, 2022 at 02:38 AM PST
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This is my new twist on an old adage. (The original adage was “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”) Every day, people are needlessly dying of covid because they stubbornly refused to get vaccinated. When an individual with a bad covid...
by Perlinator
on Thu Feb 17, 2022 at 12:07 AM PST
with 2 Recommends
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