The British have developed an elaborate yet widely understood code that allows the terrible truth to be hinted at without giving gratuitous offence. “That looks very comfortable,” applied to any item of clothing, means it would be rejected by most tramps as inconsistent with their dignity.
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How can I make it clear if I've really got to go?
Randall Stephens In 1969 a Washington D.C.-based R&B, gospel, soul act called the The Winstons released a chart-topping single, “Color Him Father.” “Think I’ll color this man father / I think I’ll color him love / Said I’m gonna color him father / I think I’ll color the man love, yes I will.” The b-side was the stirring, funked-up “Amen, Brother.” A drum break in that song has come to be known as the “amen break,” a heavy snare and symbol cutaway that now seems light years ahead of its time. Though the band would go on to some acclaim, backing the Impressions on the road, they failed to make much more of a larger, national mark
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It was Forty Years Ago Today: The "Amen Break" and Gospel-Secular Connection
Interfaith Alliance president Welton Gaddy–a critic of the White House’s faith-based office– has been invited to become a member of the White House Task Force that is studying ways to reform the Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Dan Gilgoff (US News) interviewed Gaddy, who said in part: I have thought all along it would be best not to have such an office, and I still have that opinion.
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Faith-Based Critic Joins White House Task Force Looking At Reform
Last year a Missouri federal district court issued a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of a St. Louis city ordinance that prohibits distribution of literature in public parks. The lawsuit was brought by a Christian ministry and individuals connected with who who were prevented from handing out religious literature and expressing religious beliefs during the 2006 gay pride festival.
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Permanent Injunction Issued To Protect Christian Gay Pride Protesters
Today the Catholic Church celebrates Corpus Christi , the feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. The New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia calls this a solemnity to commemorate the institution of the Eucharist. Pope John Paul II called the solemnity, not only a celebration of the Eucharist, but a public proclamation “that the sacrifice of Christ is for the salvation of the whole world.” Whatever words one uses, we focus in a special way today on the transformation of bread and wine that completely transforms our lives.
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Corpus Christi and the Meaning of the Eucharist
John Lennox is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Bible-believing Christian.
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John Lennox on science & religion
I am amused by the idea that Australia should have felt its pristine soul sullied and its politically correct sensibility scandalised last week by the misogynistic pronouncements of one mouthy Brit. That’s the claim, at any rate. Last time I looked, Australia had its own impressive line in misogyny – and the rest
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Ramsay keeps our misogyny simmering away
If Alan Michael Sugar – soon to be Lord Sugar – didn’t exist, he might have been invented by antiSemites. That, at least, would have been the view of my maternal grandmother, part of a Jewish family that had built up a very successful business, starting with a barrow in the East End of London and ending up as the catering and food empire J Lyons & Co.
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Can Sir Alan fire the old Jewish stereotype?
Barack Obama found it “exciting” and Hillary Clinton saw it as “a positive sign”. Others, like Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former US national security adviser, went further and praised it as a “vibrant democracy”. A variety of useful idiots at home and abroad expressed similar illusions about the Iranian presidential election on Friday.
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The West fooled itself Iran would allow reform
Perhaps it will come as a vague consolation to the parents of Ben Kinsella that he was not murdered for racial reasons, but simply because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, as they say. Ben, aged 16, who was white, was stabbed to death by three black men near a nightclub in north London; there was no apparent motive for the murder.
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Ben’s murder was not racist – just a matter of statistics