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Torn by Justin Lee: Gay Evangelical Writes A Coming Out Story Your Conservative Grandmother Could Love

Lillian Daniel | Posted 01.19.2013 | Religion
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Lillian Daniel

Lee is beyond charitable throughout his story. He's written a book that your Southern Baptist grandmother could read and then sigh at the end, "Well, bless his sweet heart."

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Love vs Sheriff Arpaio's Tent City

Rev. G. Jude Geiger | Posted 08.24.2012 | Religion
Read More: Human Atrocities, Ndlon, Jesus, Faith, Immigration, Arizona, Secure Communities Program, Baptist, Phoenix, Puente, Standing on the Side of Love, Prison Camps, sb1070, Ucc, Christian, Unitarian-Universalist-Association-of-Congregations-Uua, Love, Uu, Religion News
Rev. G. Jude Geiger

Locking human beings in oppressive heat, whose only crime was seeking a better life for their children, is as far from standing with 'the least of these' than I can imagine

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Equal Marriage and the Holiness of Loving Against the Odds

Rev. Emily C. Heath | Posted 08.21.2012 | Religion
Read More: Marriage, Lgbt, Dadt, Lgbtq, Rev. Emily C. Heath, Same Sex Marriage, Doma, Ucc, United Church of Christ, Equal Marriage, Weddings, Religion and Sexuality, Religion News
Rev. Emily C. Heath

Five months from today, I will say, "I do." Words forged in the soul despite the words of the world. I can't wait to say them. I can't wait to live a life of the everyday holy with the woman I love.

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Daffodils and the Life of Faith

Lillian Daniel | Posted 04.11.2012 | Home
Read More: Flowers, Christianity, Sbnr, Gardening, Spiritual but Not Religious, Ucc, Home News
Lillian Daniel

When I was a kid, my mother planned a big garden party, where her yard would be filled with blooming daffodils that she had planted in anticipation. B...

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Lessons From the Shoe Museum

Lillian Daniel | Posted 04.10.2012 | Style
Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Ucc, Footbinding, Bata Shoe Museum, Madonna, Elton John, Fashion, Shaquille O'Neal, Shoes, Shaq, Style News
Lillian Daniel

The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto bills itself as being "for the curious," and I certainly was.

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Stimulus for Small-Business Loan Programs is Inadequate and Time-Dated

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Jerry Chautin

The on-again-off-again stimulus funding for small businesses is giving me a bad case of heartburn. The' lack of adequate funding for lending programs through the Small Business Admin. is myopic.

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