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Murder is Segregated

Murder is not perfectly segregated, but it is mostly segregated. Murder in the US works more on less the same way marriage does: usually either both parties are white or both parties are black. Occasionally interracial marriages occur, and occasionally interracial murders occur, but neither is all that common. The United States is still largely [...]
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Anwar Al-Awlaki: An Important Name in US History

It is, sadly, a fact of life that governments kill their enemies illegally under cover of institutional secrecy. For better or worse, the assassinations of Middle Easterners and Latin Americans by the CIA and other tentacles of US foreign policy are to be expected as a matter of course. In wartime, even the mass slaughter [...]
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Didache Tuesday: chapter 2

Last week saw the beginning of Didache Tuesday, with a brief introduction to the Didache and a survey of the first chapter of it, in which we are introduced to the two paths, one of life and one of death. The second chapter is a mere seven verses, but my, what a collection of sins [...]
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Habitudes, by Tim Elmore

I’m going to give Dr. Tim Elmore and his book the verbal thrashing they both deserve so badly, so before I start let me say a word of appreciation. A few of us from the Student Christian Fellowship at OSU have gotten together weekly over the last ten weeks or so to discuss leadership, specifically [...]
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why should we be surprised when teachers are threatened?

The anonymity afforded by the internet, they say, is the reason people get so uncivil out there.  That is why I stick my name on everything I do online — that way when I say something that ticks someone off, I have to own it.  And maybe apologize.  If I phrase what I’m about to [...]
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john mark hicks on unjust wages

John Mark Hicks has the following to say on being “pro-life”: Last Tuesday, many within Churches of Christ voted for Obama, especially those who have come to see that voting for social justice is just as important as voting against abortion–both are pro-life orientations. Deuteronomy, for example, is just as concerned about just wages, fair [...]
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