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What's St. Paul's Beef With Oxen? Animal Compassion In Light Of 1 Corinthians 9:9-10

Michael Gilmour | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: St. Paul, New Testament, Biblical Interpretation, The Bible, Jane Austen, Animal Compassion, Slavery, Mansfield Park, Edward Said, Christian Environmentalism, Animals, Postcolonialism, Apostle Paul, Animal Ethics, Albert Schweitzer, Peter Singer, Environment, Scripture Commentary, Green Faith, Religion News
Michael Gilmour

My question is whether or not there is a way to read 1 Corinthians 9:9-10 that does justice to Paul while minimizing bias against nonhuman species among his readers?

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Real Choices: Ranked Choice Voting Elections in 6 Cities

Rob Richie | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Cambridge Massachusetts, St. Paul, Ranked Choice Voting, Instant Runoff Voting, Telluride, San Francisco, Portland Maine, Politics News
Rob Richie

This month many Americans had a chance to vote in state and local elections. FairVote was particularly focused on the first-ever use of ranked choice ...

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Deconstructing Harry Jackson: Is Jim Wallis' Ideology Really "The Doctrine of Devils"?

Timothy King | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Devil, Sojourners, Jesus, Epistles, Poor, Policy, Evil, Rev Jim Wallis, Bishop Harry Jackson, St. Paul, Theology, Doctrine, Bible, Justice, Belief, Poverty, Hell, Religion and Politics, Christianity, Religion News
Timothy King

"I don't think Bishop Jackson is offended by my ideology but by scripture itself. If he wants to toss out what the Bible has to say about wealth and poverty he might as well toss out the whole book..."

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Studying Conversion: What Stories Count?

Neil J. Young | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: College, Conversion, Faith in College, St. Paul, Princeton, Christianity, Writing Seminar, Mormonism, Faith, Religious Tolerance, Religion News
Neil J. Young

I've been thinking a lot about change recently because of the course I'm teaching this semester, which looks at the experience of conversion from historical, sociological and anthropological perspectives.

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The Search for the Historical Paul: What Paul Thought About Women

John Dominic Crossan | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: St. Paul, Early Christian Writings, Historical Paul, Paul, Paul and Thecla, Epistles, Paul's Letters, Acts of Thecla, Christianity, Gender, Thecla, Gender and Religion, Religion News
John Dominic Crossan

The historical Paul is being pulled -- kicking and screaming -- away from Christianity's radical past and into Christianity's Roman future. As with owner and slave so also with male and female.

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Joy Resmovits

Education Loses In Minn. Government Shutdown Compromise

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Education News, Minnesota Government Shutdown, Minnesota Teachers, New York City Teachers, Teachers Unions, Tom Dayton, Edina Teachers, Education Funding, Education Funding Cuts, Teachers College, St. Paul, Education, Minnesota Government Shutdown Deal, Education Reform, Evaluations, St. Paul Teachers, Mindy Greiling, Education News

On Monday afternoon, highway cars and intense security surrounded Minnesota's capitol building, where only officials, legislators and their aides were...

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Slaying Dragons, Wrestling God: Soldiers Of Peace In Christian Symbolism

Eric Simpson | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Christianity, Orthodox Christianity, Soldier, St. George, St. Paul, Violence, Eastern Orthodox Church, Violence in the Bible, Christianity and Violence, Religion News
Eric Simpson

There is no indication however, that this imagery may justify the use of violence or coercion in the name of the Gospel. We are called, as Paul writes to Timothy, to fight the good fight of faith.

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When Loyalty To Family Conflicts With Loyalty To God

Eric Felten | Posted 07.14.2011

Read More: St. Paul, God and Friendship, Mahatma Gandhi, Loyalty to God, Religious Extremism, Thomas of Kempis, Loyalty the Vexing Virtue, George Orwell, Virtue of Loyalty, Religion News
Eric Felten

As attractive a moral strategy as it may be to always put God first, does loyalty to God really mean casting aside every other commitment we have?

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Finding God In The Ordinary

Fr. Peter-Michael Preble | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Christianity, Christians, Prayer, Church, Orthodox Christians, Hope, God, Spirituality, St. Paul, Opus Dei, Soul Friend, Spiritual Father, Ordinary Time, Religion News
Fr. Peter-Michael Preble

How does one find God in the everyday situations of life? How do we find God in the everyday things that we do, or can we? Is God present in everything or only in those things that we would traditionally call holy?

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Mysticism In Religion: Three Ways To View The Sunset

Fr. Richard Rohr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mysticism, Sunset, St. Paul, Transformation, Meditation, Christianity, Enlightenment, Corinthians, Mystic, Conversion, Religion News
Fr. Richard Rohr

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.

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Minnesota Blizzard 2010 Causes 400 Crashes

AP | DINESH RAMDE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wisconsin, St. Paul, Minnesota, National Weather Service, Minnesota Blizzard, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Snow Fall, Car Crashes, Mid-West, Weather, Snow Storm, Home News

Parts of the Upper Midwest dug out from a heavy snowfall Saturday that caused more than 400 traffic accidents in Minnesota, and wintry conditions also...

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Jonathan Franzen's Freedom Is a Rare Treat: Great Characters, Real Heartbreak & Credible Inspiration

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, St. Paul, Jonathan Franzen, Coal Mining, Bird Sanctuary, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

Franzen, like Balzac and Dickens, is a journalist at heart -- what he's created in Freedom is this generation's Bonfire of the Vanities.

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Citizens, Resist the Squeeze Play on Your Minds

Rev. Chuck Freeman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumer, St. Paul, Bolivia, Water Rights, Buddha, Maude Barlow, United Nations, Citizen, Religion News
Rev. Chuck Freeman

Sharpen your eyes and ears to the noun the corporate media uses to reference you. Every time you are referred to as a consumer (which is virtually every time), say resolutely to yourself, "Citizen."

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Ancient Empires: Reflections on the Spiritual Conquerers of the First Century

Paul Wagler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: St. Paul, Turkey, Byzantine Empire, Christianity, Military, Ottoman Empire, Roman Empire, Christendom, Early Christians, Religion News
Paul Wagler

An entirely different type of conqueror also profoundly affected these Mediterranean lands. I am talking about the first Christians who arrived in the first century.

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Homeless Given Cell Phones To Help Them Get Jobs, Homes In St. Paul

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: St. Paul YWCA, St. Paul Foundation, Cell Phones, Homeless With Cell Phones, St. Paul, Dorothy Day Center, Unemployment, Face to Face Safe Zone, Homelessness, Homeless, Twin Cities Community Voice Mail, Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP), Impact News

In St. Paul, Minn., one organization is taking a bold approach to helping people get their lives back on track: giving the homeless cell phones. Accor...

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Hi, My Name Is Joe, and I'm A Recovering Catholic

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joe the Nerd, Preist, St Luke, Celebacy, Titus, St Paul, Gospel, Catholic, Pedophilia, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

Those who stay in the Church will still need ministering by the good priests who remain. But vocations have dropped through the floor, so do we import priests? From where? This pedophile issue is global.

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Susan Mukuhi Mwarabu, Sixth Grade Teacher, Charged With Biting Off Man's Ear While Drunk (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Assault, St. Paul, Susan Mukuhi Mwarabu, Northfield, Crime, Project Remand, Northfield Middle School, Minnesota, Crh, Uptowner, Home News

A Minnesota middle school teacher is in serious trouble after a bizarre incident at a late-night diner. According to multiple local news reports, Sus...

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Homeless Wishing For A Second Chance

Mark Horvath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Invisiblepoeple, Homeless, St. Paul, Minnesota, Poverty, invisiblepeople.tv, Impact News
Mark Horvath

Asked for three wishes, Darrly, homeless in Minnesota, said he only wanted one thing: to turn back the hands of time. To have a fresh start and a second chance at his life.

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The Future of Publishing: 10 Predictions Plus 2

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daniel Pink, New Decade, New Year, Books, Nostradamus, On the Road, J.G. Ballard, Publishing, Predictions, Rodeo Clowns, Vampire Novels, New Year New You, Antichrist, Comedy of Errors, Wally Lamb, Satanic Bible, Audrey Niffenegger, John Grisham, End of Days, Armageddon, One City One Book, Scott Turow, Twitter, Her Fearful Symmetry, St. Paul, Twin Cities, Oprah, Dickie, Shakespeare, Book Publishing, Bestsellers, Ebooks, Books News
Laurence Hughes

I had hoped to be out in front of the pack with some pithy prophecies of my own, but the holidays got in the way. Turns out the only thing I'm better at than prognostication is procrastination.

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Pittsburgh groups: Why do G-20 protests target us?

AP | VICKI SMITH and MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pittsburgh, St. Paul, Home News

John Byrnes boarded the windows and hired a security guard, but can't figure out why activists and anarchists planning to disrupt a meeting of the world's 20 most powerful leaders would want to bother with his 24-hour gym.

The X Shadyside 24-Hour Health & Fitness club is a one-man business, he says, not part of a profit-hungry conglomerate bent on global domination. Yet, like Starbucks and McDonald's, the gym is on a list of 80 businesses and organizations the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project has targeted for protests during the Group of 20 summit Thursday and Friday.

"I'm just as curious as anybody why they're protesting my gym," he said.

Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard said intelligence reports suggest thousands of protesters are expected in the city Thursday and Friday, but she had few details regarding demonstrations.

Representatives of the Pittsburgh Resistance Project, an umbrella organization of protest groups, didn't return phone messages. Its Web site describes plans for an unpermitted People's Uprising, "a mass march" Thursday that will begin in a neighborhood northeast of downtown and end at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the primary site of the summit.

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Instant Runoff Voting on Election Day 2009: Wins, Losses and the Long-Term Trajectory of Reform

Rob Richie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: St. Paul, Instant Runoff Voting, Gov. Jon Corzine, Minneapolis, Choice Voting, Election Reform, Voting Reform, Aspen Colorado, Politics News
Rob Richie

Tuesday's elections brought direct advances for IRV in Minnesota and elsewhere, along with disappointments in places like Aspen.

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OLDEST ST. PAUL IMAGES (Photo) Found

The Post Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: St. Paul, Oldest St. Paul, Churche, Vatican, Pope, Home News

Vatican archaeologists using laser technology have discovered what they believe is the oldest image in existence of St Paul the Apostle, dating from t...

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Karl Rove, Jeff Larson and Red Leather

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neiman Marcus, John McCain, Karl Rove, Nancy Reagain, George W. Bush, Larry Craig, Minnesota, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, St. Paul, Norm Coleman, South Carolina, Jeff Larson, Fashion, Mississippi, Gay Issues, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

In a clear-cut case of wearing too many hats, Jeff Larson, until now mostly known as a guy who knows Karl Rove way too well, has been exposed as the man behind Sarah Palin's red leather top, and another $140,000+ of wardrobe changes.

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The Relentless Activism of Tom Morello

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican National Convention, St. Paul, Progressive, Minnesota, Zack De La Rocha, The Nightwatchman, Activism, Rage Against the Machine, Grassroots, Protests, Tom Morello, Police, The Nation, The Fabled City, Entertainment News
ZP Heller

The St. Paul police should have known better than to try to stop Tom Morello. The Rage guitarist leads a growing number of musicians who have adopted an explicit antiwar, anti-Bush message.

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Hawkish GOP Delegate Drugged, Robbed Of $120,000 After One-Night-Stand At Convention (VIDEO)

Pioneer Press/Twincities.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Convention, Minneapolis, John McCain, Sarah Palin, St. Paul, Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Stupid News, Politics News

The Pioneer Press reports on the self-described "poor judgement" of Gabriel Nathan Schwartz, 29, of Denver. Schwartz was in Minneapolis last month fo...

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