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Not at your Beck and Call– a Reply to Glenn Beck
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Ben Witherington
Dear Glenn Beck: I must admit that your recent attack (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/12justice.html?scp=3&sq=glenn%20beck&st=cse) on the issue of whether the church should be involved in social justice matters or not took me by surprise especially when you inanely went on to associate it with socialism, communism, or even Nazism. This word just in— none of those…
The Sporting Life– What Happened to It?
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Ben Witherington
The coarsening of our culture has been going on for a long time, and nowhere is this more in evidence than in sports– high profile college, and also professional sports. Some of this is because of the seduction of money. Colleges want the revenues that high revenue basketball and football programs make. Even smaller schools…
The Political History of the Whole Biblical World in 90 Seconds Flat
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Ben Witherington
http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf
Surrealistic Pillow— Alice in Wonderland
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Ben Witherington
“:One pill makes you smaller, and one pill makes you big….go ask Alice….” Thus went the song ‘White Rabbit’ on Jefferson Airplane’s breakout album Surrealistic Pillow. Of course the album, among other things was celebrating psychotropic drugs, but we have no reason to assume that Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Dodgson ever did…
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