United Methodists in Tampa: Looking for Scapegoats, Living in Fear - Huffington Post (blog)

United Methodists in Tampa: Looking for Scapegoats, Living in Fear
Huffington Post (blog)
Recently, the United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the United States, concluded its quadrennial legislative general conference in Tampa, Fla. Since the early 1980s, the general conference has repeatedly passed ...

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BLOGS, PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS, PROGRESS AND DECLINE, PHILOSOPHY TODAY, ETC. - First Things (blog)

BLOGS, PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS, PROGRESS AND DECLINE, PHILOSOPHY TODAY, ETC.
First Things (blog)
In the name of gender diversity and to up our pay grade a bit, I invite the lovely and legendary KATE to join us on these pages as an actual blogger. 2. So I've been very impressed with the PROGRESSIVISM surrounding the President's “evolved” ...

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Wonkbook: What if we'd had Europe's rules? - Washington Post (blog)

Wonkbook: What if we'd had Europe's rules?
Washington Post (blog)
The problems in the euro zone have been endlessly, and mistakenly, analogized to the problems in the United States -- and so too have the solutions. We hear that they have focused too much on austerity and assume they need a stimulus package, ...

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Humility, Freedom, and Transcendence: An Exchange of Letters - Shma

Humility, Freedom, and Transcendence: An Exchange of Letters
Shma
I apply the same progressive reasoning to my understanding of the US Constitution. Progressivism seems to require that our societies be based on documents that can adapt, and while the meanings of edicts and passages are still debated, the Torah as a ...

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Rocky Anderson's “Progressivism” - Dissident Voice

Rocky Anderson's “Progressivism
Dissident Voice
On the carbon tax: Anderson reproaches me for failing to quote this part of his statement in support of Wall Street's favorite non-solution to the climate crisis—cap and trade: “but support and defend the authority of the US Environmental Protection ...

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The Doctor Is Out... And Outspoken: An Interview With Dr. Lisa Diamond (Part 2) - Huffington Post

The Doctor Is Out... And Outspoken: An Interview With Dr. Lisa Diamond (Part 2)
Huffington Post
... but I think it's important for all of us not to treat all forms of visibility as equivalent, and we need to remain critical of the fact that in some cases visibility of same-sex sexuality is motivated not by progressivism but by the desire to make ...

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We're all in this together - by our own choosing - Savannah Morning News

We're all in this together - by our own choosing
Savannah Morning News
All us slobs with savings stacked in 401-k's can lament the wipeout of first quarter gains and the resetting of the financial clock back to January. As of this writing, NATO leaders convene at the G-8 summit at Camp David for group hand-wringing over ...

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