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stevebag | June 20, 2007

President Bush vetoed a bill that would have allowed for Embryonic Stem Cell research. There needs to be more non-political discussion about this issue. My biggest problem is that we have opposition to this process and seem happy to have a victory for the pro-life movement, but the embryos are still being destroyed [...]

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stevebag | June 20, 2007

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stevebag | June 10, 2007

Tim Challies has gathered some great quotes about the Bible, check them out here.

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stevebag | June 10, 2007

Well, the family is in Washington DC for National History Day. Our High School sons have made it to the finals having placed first in California in the Group Presentation category. Their project is entitled: Tragedies Committed in the Name of Honor. It should be a great week.  The awards ceremony [...]

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stevebag | June 9, 2007

Click on the link for an interview with Leon Botstein by Stephen Colbert (check out the VodPod in my sidebar).
Colbert makes me laugh, and the discussion has an interesting God element to it. Botstein gives a common tolerant humanist view about the existence and nature of God (God is human capacity), and it is [...]

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stevebag | June 8, 2007

Virgil Vaduva at Unfinished Christianity has an interesting post on What a Church Should Be.
Interesting how the parallels between the end of Isaiah and the end of Revelation can give us insight into the nature of the church. If heaven is no more tears, the church should be about removing the reason for [...]

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stevebag | June 5, 2007

Optional Title to this post: “I am voting for an Atheist for President”
Has it been long enough?
What is the required waiting period before we can talk about the legacy of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority? Well, here goes. I think this blog post will get me in trouble.
The Moral Majority was [...]

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stevebag | June 5, 2007

Check out this Time Magazine pictorial on what the world eats, interesting.
ht: Between Two Worlds
Technorati Tags: Global Issues, Food

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