Communing with 1000 points of darkness is a dangerous strategy. Will it take violence or death — say, a militia-executed Oklahoma City–style bombing — to bring the nation to its senses?
Not too smart
Flood alerts and the news of the South Hadley bullying prosecutions have bumped from the headlines reports that Massachusetts failed to qualify for an additional $250 million in federal aid to education in the first round of competition.
To qualify for those funds, the Bay State had to demonstrate that it was committed to meaningful education reform. It failed to score. Teachers’ unions succeeded in getting legislators to dilute provisions of a recently enacted education bill that called for, among other things, regular and adequate teacher evaluation.
Sleep tight, Massachusetts. Your legislators have mortgaged your children’s future to the politically powerful teachers’ unions in exchange for campaign cash, poll workers, and endorsements. It is an equation that does not add up.
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A fair number of college students are turning to Wicca for spiritual identity.
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His publicist calls Piers Paul Read "the anti-Dan Brown." She's capitalizing on a buzz - worthy name, sure, but it's a fairly insightful description of a man whose latest book, The Death of a Pope , explores not the Brownish theme of the Catholic Church secretly at work in world affairs, but rather its inverse.
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Once an intellectual taboo, atheism has become one of the great growth industries of the third millennium.
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Among other things, your editorial calling for the Catholic Church to be punitively taxed for its anti-abortion lobbying suffers from a breathtaking lack of inconsistency.
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If every last allegation that Church of Scientology (CoS) defector Nancy Many charges in My Billion Year Contract is true, then her book should inspire several FBI raids and a Lifetime mini-series to rival any Charles Manson documentary.
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Sure, we've all gotten an unwelcome fruitcake or fluorescent sweater in the mail, usually from a well-meaning and slightly out-of-touch relative. But few New England Jews could have been prepared for the surprise "gift" that recently arrived on their doorsteps courtesy of Georgia-based messianic former businessman Sid Roth.
- Losing our religion
All those pretty churches. So many of them white clapboard buildings with tall steeples and stained glass windows. The kind of thing that makes you think Mainers are a hardy, God-fearing, churchgoing lot.
- Theology class
My religion teaches me that I have a responsibility to work to create a better world for humanity and for all living beings in the world that God created.
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree expressed what many in the room were feeling at Equality Maine’s annual dinner celebration on Saturday night: the function room at the Holiday Inn by the Bay on Spring Street elicits “a little bit of PTSD” for Maine’s gay-rights supporters.
- A casket gets some airtime
Bert Harlow, woodworker and founder of the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, Massachusetts, made his own casket a few years ago. But he figured the pine box should get some use before he was nailed into it.
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