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theatlantic.com - 3/12/2009

Cannabusiness - The Atlantic (April 2009)

— theatlantic.com — Under a microscope , it’s easy to tell really good marijuana from schwag. Look for trichomes .... On the best pot, they cluster, thick and crystalline, indicators of potency. If you’re training to become a professional pot dealer, as I was last fall, ... (more) Cannabusiness - The Atlantic (April 2009)

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buzzmachine.com - 3/19/2009

What Would God Do?

— buzzmachine.com — Coming full circle, I’ve seen a fair number of religious folk responding to What Would Google Do?... and wondering what its laws and lessons mean for their churches. What would, uh, Jesus do? Ron Smith, pastor of a church in San Diego, took my ... (more) What Would God Do?

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susiemadrak.com - 3/10/2009

‘Crazy for God’

— susiemadrak.com — I really want to get this book: (more) ‘Crazy for God’

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Don't Go Away
Ross Douthat — Blogging may be sparse at the moment, but I'll be writing in this space for another month, so I hope you'll keep checking in. For now, though, I'll send you off to other places: To the latest issue of the Atlantic, where you'll find a provocative excerpt from Robert Wright's ...

Paul, God's CEO?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — From Robert Wright's article on God and globalization: It may sound implausible that a doctrine of true, pure, boundless love could emerge from the strategic imperatives of entrepreneurship, even when the enterprise is a religion. And, actually, it is implausible. What emerged with early Christianity isn’t really what many Christians like to believe: a God of “universal” love. The core appeal of the early church, remember, was that “brotherly love” was a form of familial love. And familial love is discerning—it is directed inwardly, not outwardly; toward ...

The Global Church
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — William Brafford found Robert Wright's article on globalized Christianity unpalatable: Christianity, when it’s at its best, offers conversion as an invitation into a new way of living rather than a command, but I’d be a fool to deny that the Church has been just as guilty of coercion as any aggressive modern state or corporation, and guilty over a much longer period of time. The globalization that Wright describes seems to be purely benign in its tendency to gently bring people into the big economic game, but surely this is an idealized ...