CNN: Postville, IA Catholic Priest: “Nobody Can Tell Me to Shut Up”

This from CNN, regarding a May illegal immigration raid in a small town called Postville, Iowa. The raid, involving a meat packing plant, netted 370 arrests (75% of the workforce of the plant). Many of the workers ended up jailed (not deported, interestingly enough) and literally dozens ended up on the doorstep of St. Bridget’s [...]

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Race Report: 2008 Chicago Marathon

After an amazing weekend which included an all expense paid flight and two nights in deluxe accommodations, I took to the streets of Chicago for my fifth marathon. Everything that you could imagine a top notch marathon experience would provide was met and nearly exceeded by the 2008 Bank of America Chicago Marathon. It is [...]

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Time: Blame God for Subprime Mortgage Collapse?

This month’s Time Magazine draws a very interesting connection between the prosperity gospel preachers and the subprime mortgage mess. The article features a couple of quotations by prominent Pentecostal scholar Sister Anthea Butler of the University of Rochester. It’s tragic, but unfortunately utterly predictable:
A recent publicly posted testimony by a congregant at [...]

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Three Men and a Baby. . . for real

Once upon a time there were three men who lived with a lady in a comfortable house in a lower middle class neighborhood in a middle to large metropolitan city in the upper Midwest. One of the men worked as in the service industry. One of the men was in seminary. Other man coaches college [...]

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