Tag: conscience
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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May 18, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
Something made me really angry today. Not a little pissed, but blindly enraged, ferociously, murderously angry.
I know it is unhealthy for me to be angry. I know I should love the person I see as the . . .
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May 11, 2007 02:42 PM EDT --
Here is one of those questions I'll have to put in the "Glad I don't have to answer it" column, but I can't get it off my mind for other reasons.
Emilio Gonzalez is a terminally . . .
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June 22, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
Here are five truly bad ideas guaranteed to make life hell:
1. God will only love me if I am good/perfect.
2. God will punish me if I am not good/perfect.
I call these two ideas "The Heresy . . .
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August 20, 2007 09:12 AM EDT --
Israel says it will no longer accept refugees from the Sudan who sneak across the border into that country from Egypt. The refugees will be returned to Egypt. The Israelis claim that country has agreed . . .
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June 13, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
No one who knows me could think I support the war in Iraq. That would make me a peacemaker, right? Hardly.
They say charity begins at home.
So does peace.
When the bible talks about beating swords . . .
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June 20, 2007 10:47 AM EDT --
Recently, my bank merged with another small bank. Until then, it had been under the same ownership for about 150 years. This week, we received a mailing from the bank telling us how things were going to . . .
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October 04, 2007 08:49 PM EDT --
On my travels through town this week, I started noticing signs in people's yards that read "Pray to end abortion."
"All right, I thought, Dear God, please make it unnecessary for women . . .
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October 26, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
For the first 40 years of so of my life, I considered myself a Christian. I was a member of numerous congregations of two major denominations during my travels through life, ending up in the Episcopal . . .
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April 21, 2008 07:09 PM EDT --
Authorities in San Angelo, Texas announced that young children taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch will be separated from their mothers after DNA testing next week. The children, whose parents are members . . .
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May 11, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
Half-a-dozen times over the last 10 years, I have found myself going head-to-head with some authority figure over one of my children. Usually, I'd look at them and fold. After all, they were the professionals. . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:43 AM EDT --
An article in the Jerusalem Post states that U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) is calling for the United States to attack Iran immediately. According to the Post, in an interview with CBS, Lieberman . . .
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June 21, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Driving my daughter to work this morning, I saw a yard sign, the design of the Texas state flag, only black and white, rather than red, white, and blue. It read "Execution Today." At 6:00 . . .
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June 22, 2007 01:59 PM EDT --
Michael Moore has made a new documentary called Sicko, about the healthcare system in the United States. His basic premise is that people, all of them, are entitled to medical care, without respect to . . .
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August 07, 2007 07:02 PM EDT --
I am sick and tired of hearing about illegal immigrants. Not that there is no problem; there are millions of people in this country who don't belong here. Unfortunately, someone has spread the vicious . . .
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August 23, 2007 01:46 AM EDT --
Donna M's great article about the United States' lack of accommodation for new parents and my recent trip to Mexico have given me an insight about why illegal immigrants come here. It just suddenly . . .
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November 05, 2007 07:17 PM EST --
It’s your choice, and it always has been. If you like the way the United States is going; if you really don’t miss your constitutional rights; if you really don’t mind the possibility . . .
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January 20, 2008 12:35 PM EST --
I grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the cradle of our democracy. I don't know if it was where I was that gave me the picture of the United States of America that I have. All I know is that I . . .
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August 04, 2008 06:18 PM EDT --
A number of years ago, I met with the editor of a small-town newspaper to pitch an idea I had for a parenting column. The editor read several essays and a few samples of my political writings as well. . . .
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June 20, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
One of the elements of a successful stage magician is misdirection of the audience’s attention. Without mastering that skill, a stage magician is nothing more than a sideshow, background noise. Indeed, . . .
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September 20, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
Sometimes it is not so much the stories I hear on NPR that bother me as their juxtaposition. On the way home from taking the youngest princess to school, first I hear that the senate refused to mandate . . .
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