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Family Is a Faith Issue
By
Brad Hirschfield
What is faith, any faith really about? Is it about philosophical debates? Is it nothing more than theological wrangling? Or could it be something much closer to home for most of us? Could it be about the big questions in our everyday lives, and the spiritual tools we need to address them? My recent post,…
Obama’s Acceptance Speech and The Islamophobic Smear Campaign
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Brad Hirschfield
If Barack Obama were a doctor, he would get an A for diagnostic skill and a C for his ability to prescribe treatment. His acceptance speech last night was no different — a grand expression of each of those traits. Yes, he laid out a bunch of specifics, but did so as a laundry list…
To Senators Obama and McCain, Re: God and the Election
By
Brad Hirschfield
I was asked by Sally Quinn and John Meacham of the Washington Post and Newsweek, what advice I would offer to Barack Obama and John McCain on the use of religion in their presidential campaigns. This was my response: Dear Senator McCain and Senator Obama, As a person of faith, I hope that religion plays…
Proof of God’s Existence
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Brad Hirschfield
The following story from the Chicago Tribune, ‘Jewish clause’ divides a family, state courts weigh in on a man’s will that disinherited any descendant who married a gentile, is proof not only of God’s existence, but that God must love the Jewish people very much, because nothing else explains the ongoing existence of people behaving…
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