Day: June 16, 2012

Rhode Island passes “Homeless Bill of Rights”

“It’s important as a standalone piece of legislation but also as it’s juxtaposed with other communities that are in the process of criminalizing homelessness,” said Neil Donovan, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless.

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Theory: low-income evangelicals vote their economic interest

An Authoritative God is thought to be actively engaged in daily activities and historical outcomes. For those with an Authoritative God, value concerns are synonymous with economic concerns because God has a guiding hand in both. Around two-thirds of believers in an Authoritative God conjoin their theology with free-market economics, creating a new religious-economic idealism. Nearly one-fifth of American voters hold this viewpoint.

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Blind eyes and deaf ears

Commemoration of [George Berkeley &] Joseph Butler Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the

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