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The Alternative Mainstream offers commentary on culture, religion, and poltics from the "new evangelical" viewpoint: God cares about social and environmental justice as well as the family -- and Jesus cannot be stuffed into any American political party. See the blog's vision statement for more information. And please, drop in comments, using the usual norms of common courtesy.
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The Alternative Main Stream

English - Theology, Christianity, Social Justice
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The Alternative Main Stream · 1W ago

Dear Environmentalists: Learn to play th

Dear Environmentalists: Learn to play the game – A question for the eco-friendly: Can we see those outreached hands?… http://ow.ly/1jKCUI
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The Alternative Main Stream · 1W ago

Dear Environmentalists: Learn to play the game

A question for the eco-friendly: Can we see those outreached hands? They're there, waiting for us, just beyond the fog of our prim, finger-wagging islands. Surveys show that three out of four U.S. voters favor regulating carbon dioxide emissions; some conservatives are reminding their kin of the wor
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The Alternative Main Stream · 1M ago

A Relativistic World = A Con Artist’s D

A Relativistic World = A Con Artist’s Dream – Cue the off-key organ grinder monkey music. The postmodern circus has … http://ow.ly/1iUVXp
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The Alternative Main Stream · 2M ago

A Relativistic World = A Con Artist’s Dream

Cue the off-key organ grinder monkey music. The postmodern circus has come to town, with Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich enrolled as the unlikely ring leaders. Step right up and watch them assert "traditional values" while twisting and bending the truth until it snaps. The political Le
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The Alternative Main Stream · 3M ago

Dream The Dream: Congressional Noise-makers Crave A Genuine Lent

I feel awkward; gauche, even. I'm unqualified for my task: I'm calling for an old fashioned Lent, a Lent gone viral, a mother of all Lents, a nation-wide Lent in which we marinate in mind-bending guilt and covenant in a vow of silence punctuated with mournful wails. Viking-besieged abbots will vie
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The Alternative Main Stream · 3M ago

New Evangelicals free a hijacked movement

A telling statistic: In 2009, 35 percent of evangelicals identified themselves as Democrats and 34 percent as Republicans. The rest were independents. In other words, most evangelicals aren't even voting in this year's GOP primaries. Another: 64 percent of all white evangelicals don't believe church
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The Alternative Main Stream · 3M ago

Fringe thinkers blemish the pro-life movement – again

I can’t help but wonder: Are some pro-life advocates hermetically sealed in a ghettoized world of circular logic? They must be. It’s the only explanation. No one else would spoon-feed the opposition with ready-made quotes for their publicity brochures. Sweet-smiling pro-choice convention recep
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The Alternative Main Stream · 4M ago

The candidate we deserve

Unless Americans wake-up to their own self-delusion, one of the nation's two great parties will knowingly nominate a computer generated hologram of a candidate whose only demonstrated conviction is a desire to become president. He is his own goal.
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The Alternative Main Stream · 4M ago

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performanc
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The Alternative Main Stream · 5M ago

Liberating Advent and escaping the mire

I feel the ground rumble as the panic-stricken advertisers stampede. Someone just told them we should rescue Advent from its kidnappers and let it roam all year. Advent was meant to be a season of prayer and fasting, with the look and feel of Lent. The shopping malls would open late and close early.
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