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I switched on the radio on my way to pick up my wife from work yesterday. And I half-listened to a report of a community in Nevada protesting a possible test conducted by the The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (funded by the US Department of Defense). It was a good story—quite interesting and informative. But [...]

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Reading something like this just drives me nuts:
The U.S. spent a staggering $783 billion in 2005 on the military.

As a result, 42 cents out of every dollar you’re paying in taxes this year is going to the military.

Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)
Let me explain why it drives me particularly nuts this morning. The current [...]

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“Christ will indeed be in agony unto the end of the world.”

That the last line I read last night in bed before I turned out the lights. It’s how D.M. MacKinnon ends his essay “Order and Evil in the Gospel” (Borderlands of Theology, p.96).

“Violence rages in Iraq; 58 killed.”

That’s the headline I read first thing [...]

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