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COMMENTARY: This election’s biggest losers - faith leaders who backed candidates

| Nov 20, 2012

Politics and religion writer David Scott says some of the biggest losers falling on the political sword in this year's election cycle weren't the politicians but the religious leaders who backed them. "These religious ideologues, Franklin Graham for example, not only backed the losing candidate. Even more devastatingly, they lost credibility, relevance, and the moral high ground.  Religious “true believers” and evangelicals lost their biggest tools for spreading the Word, their trustworthiness, their moral integrity, and their religious standing."
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Thanking God by Name - giving credit where credit is due

| Nov 18, 2012

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, Jana Greene says: "How blessed are we – in America – that we have planned feasts of gratitude?"
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Why I married a military man and more to be grateful for this Thanksgiving

| Nov 15, 2012

After 18 years of being "in" the Army as a military wife, writer Andy Lee has a special perspective for military families during the holidays.
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A Veteran’s Treatise on War - how a just war is “an unholy oxymoron”

| Nov 12, 2012

To David Scott, a Vietnam War veteran, a just war is an "unholy oxymoron." He writes: "In religious terms, to me, war is blasphemy---a sin against God but also against man."
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Terminal Uniqueness

| Nov 12, 2012

Jana Greene says: 'God is teaching me that my addictions and behaviors are not weakness born of my terminal uniqueness, but of my humanity."
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After the elections, a plea for political kumbaya

| Nov 9, 2012

After the recent election, writer David Scott thanks God that it's over and implores politicians and his friends to unify and move on to find solutions to the nation's economic and social troubles. 
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A word to church planters - head to North Dakota

| Nov 6, 2012

Writer Andy Lee makes note of an article she read recently on church planting in North Dakota, the least visited state in the union. 
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Gratitude, intentionally

| Nov 4, 2012

Thanksgiving comes a little early for writer Jana Greene in the form of daily epiphanies. 
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The balancing act between funding social programs and beliefs in caring for the poor

| Nov 1, 2012

David Scott highlights an NPR program that  "tries to shed light on how many conservative Christians can reconcile their scriptural mandates to help the poor with their attempts to eviscerate social programs."
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Wilmington Homeless Ministries Worships at Local VFW

| Oct 30, 2012

Writer Andy Lee tells of another Wilmington homeless ministry that has moved because of conflicts between ministries and city ordinances about feeding the homeless on city streets. 
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