Tower of Babel

Acts 2:1-21: Think Differently About Difference

Rev. Dr. Eric D. Barreto | Posted 05.23.2012

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Rev. Dr. Eric D. Barreto

Christians have often hoped for a time when our racial and economic differences would cease, when in Christ we would all be indistinguishable. Such impulses are earnest but fundamentally misguided.

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Kentucky Fried Bible Reading: Is Interracial Marriage Immoral?

G. Elijah Dann | Posted 02.01.2012

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G. Elijah Dann

Of course the Kentucky Baptists can't consistently hold to their prejudices. It also doesn't take much imagination to think that their hysteria is really something much more human and base.

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Compromise Is Made Of Mutual Concessions

Rabbi Samuel April | Posted 10.19.2011

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Rabbi Samuel April

A compromise, by definition, involves two parties making concessions to achieve a desired result. (It means each side promises with the other.)

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Not Just Another Manic Monday: Pentecost And The Reconciliation Of Humanity

Shane Claiborne | Posted 08.13.2011

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Shane Claiborne

What happened at Pentecost runs much deeper than peaking in a charismatic "tongues-of-fire" prayer language. It was a divine moment of reconciliation among people.

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PHOTOS:Tower Of Babel Replica Made Entirely Of Books

forum.xcitefun.net | Posted 07.12.2011

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Popular Argentine artist Marta Minujin has created a 25-meter-high spiraling Tower of Babel made from 30,000 books written in various languages. ...

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Lame Duck and Tower of Babel

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

For two years, our government leaders have been obstructing and obfuscating one another. Why is it that we only seem to act when we are under absolute pressure?

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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Le Mot Juiced

Brooks Peters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brooks Peters

Some people think they know the nuances of sound and language better than others and in order to enlighten us, they deliberately over-pronounce French words.

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