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For all the years of prosperity teaching, conservative Protestants still do not match the wealth accumulation of others in the U.S.: According to data analyzed by Keister, a Duke University sociologist, the median net worth for conservative Protestants in 2000 was $26,000, compared to the national median of $66,200. Why the gap? Keister says it …
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This is not a good time to run out of gas: A review by federal authorities has revealed a sharp increase in planes, particularly from Continental Airlines, flying into the New York area with so little fuel that they demand an emergency landing. In a report on minimum and emergency fuel declarations into Newark airport …
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Brazil is once again taking the lead as a source for oil: Brazil's state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA in November said the offshore Tupi field may hold 8 billion barrels of recoverable crude. Among discoveries in the past 30 years, only the 15-billion-barrel Kashagan field in Kazakhstan is larger. Haroldo Lima, director of the country's oil …
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This week's podcast is Let Your Face Wear a Smile, from the group Kairosingers' album Of One Accord. This group of Texas Catholics from Port Arthur, Texas (the home of Janis Joplin) brings to mind many things about Texas Catholicism during the 1970's, and the kinds of lessons we might learn today. The album cover …
I guess one can say that he's arrived now that he's appeared in the Shiny Sheet's (Palm Beach Daily News) blog: I wonder whether candidates are fully aware of the depth of their followers’ devotion. Many of these folks waited in line for 2 hours — in full sun and 85-degree temperatures. Then, after passing …
M.D. McMullin lets it out about Positive Infinity on Jonathan Stone's blog: I think Don has already blogged on every issue known to man. And, if God gives me life, I'll keep it up. I think that a lot of the problem Evangelical Christianity is facing these days is that its focus (or life view) …
David at the Political Chase seems taken aback that this "conservative blogger" wouldn't go along with the Jonesville COG's pastor's implication that Barack Obama is a Muslim: Interestingly enough, not every right-wing conservative blogger supports Pastor Byrd’s thought provoking idea. At least two conservative bloggers do not. This reminds me of something that happened to …
The Jonesville (SC) Church of God and its pastor are making a stir with their latest sign out in front of the church: Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God. It reads: "Obama, …
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It certainly looks that way: Under pressure to increase their numbers, the Army and Marine Corps are sharply raising the number of recruits with felony convictions they are admitting to the services. Data released by a congressional committee shows that the number of soldiers admitted to the Army with felony records jumped from 249 in …
Muhammad Cohen's article No Friends of the Earth highlights the backward priorities that so often plague the environmental movement: Within days of the Bali breakthrough, activists from environmental group Greenpeace were speeding toward Antarctica, ground zero for global warming, with an embedded BBC reporter aboard. The polar ice caps are melting at accelerating rates, and …
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