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At the DG National Conference, John Piper talked with  Doug Wilson about the movie Collision . It is a helpful discussion regarding Wilson’s interaction with Christopher Hitchens. DG posted the Piper’s questions at their conference webpage : Christopher Hitchens said at the end of the movie that, given the chance, he wouldn’t convert the last theist. Why do you think he said that? What is Hitchens’ best counterpoint to the claim that he is getting his morality for judging Christianity fFrom Library Journal This thorough revision of McBrien’s best-selling summary of Roman Catholic theology, history, and moral values is an important statement of what it means to be a Catholic Christian. McBrien, a priest and professor of theology at Notre Dame, provides a marvelous synthesis of contemporary interpretations in a compendium designed for the general reader. Throughout, McBrien is faithful to tradition and to contemporary scholarship; he does not hesitate to raise probing quest

If you’re doing the rounds of the second-hand bookshops and you come across Desmond Fennell’s Nice People and Rednecks , a collection of the great man’s Sunday Press columns from the 1980s, you could do worse than to pick it up. Des’ insights on Irish politics in the Age of Gubu haven’t aged all that badly, and some of them are strikingly relevant now. Here’s Des writing circa 1983, apropos of a nakedly partisan campaign by Dublin liberals to pressure the Church into declaring membership of[ FACT comments : We’re not true believers. But we think it is the duty of all citizens to ask questions of their govts and to expect complete and truthful answers. It would be far too facile to dismiss those who question what happened on 9/11 as conspiracy nutjobs as does FOX-TV news each and every day. This issue isn’t going away and it sure smells like they’re hiding something. That this article is written by one of the US’s foremost media activists means itIn the beginning there was only chaos, disorder and possibilities. Every possible model of the universe existed simultaneously. From chaos, order was created. Some of those universes yielded life, life in the sense that order exists in the form of matter. Each subatomic particle, each atom, every star, every plant and animal is a living machine. Once it no longer functions, life ceases to exist to the observer and chaos continues creating new forms of order and life.   Time and space were

HCHR - Senator Baucus has Pushed Back the Vote on the Public-Option Amendments - nhinsider.com 09/26/2009 Developing Story: Senator Baucus has pushed back the vote on the Public-Option amendments propsed by Senators Jay Rockefeller and Charles Schumer from today to Tuesday, September 29, 2009.  Baucus used time constraints to delay the vote back.    Read the developing story ObamaCare’s Choice: Get an Insurance Or Go To Jail - poligazette.com 09/26/2009 No joke . That’s thBarack Obama: The Empire’s New ClothesBy Paul Street. Originally published at The Greanville JournalCarefully engineered myth and reality clash hard in Obama. But both his policies and advisors will soon tell us how much hope for change is justified—if any.Barack Obama and his followers continue to revise the history of his ascendance, pretending his campaign was rooted among the “outsiders.”The public line is a fiction, as even the most rudimentary research reveals. In fact, Obama’s own words d

Quotes are taken from a  transcript of President Obama’s remarks to the General Assembly, published by the New York Times. And this leads me to the final pillar that must fortify our future: a global economy that advances opportunity for all people. Does anyone recall the one export the Democrats & their willing accomplices in the mass media were complaining about in the last decade? What was it? Oh, thats it, good jobs.  We were exporting good jobs, leaving h

“Vows” September 25th, 2009 “I am all of them, but none of them is me.” I never thought I’d be writing this post. No one gave Dollhouse a chance of succeeding when its first season debuted to pretty abysmal numbers at midseason, and when it showed little signs of life on the ratings board when it concluded. It was a show that never found an audience, on a network that had done Joss Whedon wrong before with Firefly, setting everyone up for the inevitable letter writing campaiCNSNews.com / Thursday, September 24, 2009By Rev. James V. JohnstonSkinning the ‘Health Care Cat’ Rev. James V. Johnston, Bishop of the Diocese of Springfiled-Cape Girardeau“Heal the sick …” — Matthew 10:8A very odd and macabre saying that I have always found somewhat disturbing is that “there’s more than one way to skin a cat.” The point of the saying is that in the undertaking of a complex project, there are usually a variety of ways to reach the goal, some better than others. This is true of “Nevertheless He saved them for his name’s sake.” Psalm 106:8IN looking upon the works of God in creation, there are two questions which at once occur to the thoughtful mind, and which must be answered before we can procure a clue to the philosophy and science of creation itself. The first one is the question of authorship: Who made all these things? And the next question is that of design: For what purpose were all these things created? The first question, “Who made all these things?” is one wh

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to publish interviews with Michael Jackson – The Star-Ledger – NJ.com Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the former spiritual advisor to Michael Jackson, is cashing in on his relationship with the star by publishing a book based on taped …. TMZ Live — You Got Questions, We Got Answers – TMZ.com 9. why don't you contact one of the "dearest friends" of MJ – Uri Geller – who introduced to him such beautifull people as Martin Bashir and Rabbi Shmuley ….

Richard Dawkins answered questions on CNN’s “Connect the World” show on September 22, 2009. To celebrate Darwin’s 150-year-anniversary of Origin of the Species , Dawkins has published a new book: The Greatest Show on Earth , which offers scientific evidence to back-up his own theory of evolution. Related posts: Game Show Aims to Convert Non-Believers Reuters/Yahoo News reports that a new game show is about... Intelligent Design | Texas Decision Anticipated here will be anoFilm Review – Pandorum Directed by Christian Alvart Alliance Marketed as just another “in space no one can hear you scream” movie, Pandorum will turn out to be a pleasant surprise to sci-fi fans, as it is much more than just a deep-space horror. Visual-art-wise the setting of the movie is somewhat close to the now classic Event Horizon, although Christian Alvart’s creation has surpassed it noticeably, considering just how reinforced it is by the mind-gripping storyline. As with any complDon Emmert/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said on Friday that the United States, Britain and France would “regret” accusing Iran of hiding a nuclear fuel facility, saying it was not a secret site. President Obama and the leaders of Britain and France on Friday accused Iran of building an underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel and of hiding the operation from international weapons inspectors for years.The leaders gave Iran gave two months to compFollowing Orders by digby Pam Spaulding put up a list of the 39 people who have been killed so far this year by tasers. Unsurprisingly, nearly 40% of the victims were black, despite being only 6% of the population. But lest anyone who isn't black think they are immune, consider this : An 81-year-old man tased during his arrest by a Stockton CHP officer says he may take legal ac

A Visualization of the Internet Tell me if you’ve heard this all before. I’d imagine online life was simple back then, back when the The Mentor and his kind discovered the computer, then travelled the electron, and the switch and started to marvel at the beauty of the baud. It was a simpler time because it was a world without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias. It was a world where people judge others for what they say and think, not what they look like. It was a realm « PreviousSNL Gives Us A Thursday Night Glenn Beck Taste Next »Exclusive TIME interview with Ahmadinejad Carly Fiorina Talks About Her Battle With Cancer Posted by Karen TumultyFriday, September 25, 2009 at 10:52 am 115 Comments • Trackback • Related Topics:electionssenate, barbara boxer, Breast cancer, California, cancer, Carly Fiorina, election, elizabeth edwards, fortune most powerful women summit, laura shawver, laura ziskin, senate, stand up to cancer Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Ca

Our government is currently embroiled in the most intense political debate in recent memory over what the late Senator Ted Kennedy called one of his lifelong goals: universal healthcare. Presently, the battle rages in Washington and at town hall meetings all over the country. Americans are worried about the rising costs of healthcare, but also about the increasing deficit and what they are told will amount to government “death panels” that choose who is fit to live and who is not. Present legisl