One Eye Squinted Archives - Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/category/opinion/columns/karen-swallow-prior-one-eye-squinted/ Driving essential conversation about how religion and beliefs shape us and our world. Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:48:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://religionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Favicon-100x100.png One Eye Squinted Archives - Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/category/opinion/columns/karen-swallow-prior-one-eye-squinted/ 32 32 Why I’m voting third party https://religionnews.com/2024/08/29/why-im-voting-third-party/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/29/why-im-voting-third-party/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:19:45 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4164121 (RNS) — Voting is an investment in the long-term future of the nation, not only something that will benefit us in our own lifetimes.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/29/why-im-voting-third-party/feed/ 0 JD Vance’s ascent marks the rise of the Fantasy Generation https://religionnews.com/2024/07/25/jd-vances-ascent-marks-the-rise-of-the-fantasy-generation/ https://religionnews.com/2024/07/25/jd-vances-ascent-marks-the-rise-of-the-fantasy-generation/#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:00:46 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4158977 (RNS) — Tolkien is now considered the ‘father of fantasy,’ and his imitators — good, poor and in between — are infinite.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/07/25/jd-vances-ascent-marks-the-rise-of-the-fantasy-generation/feed/ 0 Pro-life takes on new meaning in the cancer center https://religionnews.com/2024/06/26/in-the-cancer-center/ https://religionnews.com/2024/06/26/in-the-cancer-center/#respond Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:57:37 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4155145 (RNS) — It’s not just bumper stickers and memes, protests and op-eds.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/06/26/in-the-cancer-center/feed/ 0 When childless becomes grandchildless https://religionnews.com/2024/05/29/when-childless-becomes-grandchildless/ https://religionnews.com/2024/05/29/when-childless-becomes-grandchildless/#respond Wed, 29 May 2024 18:01:09 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4150713 (RNS) — New versions of the old wonderings begin all over again.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/05/29/when-childless-becomes-grandchildless/feed/ 0 Resisting our ‘new dark age’ https://religionnews.com/2024/04/25/resisting-our-new-dark-age/ https://religionnews.com/2024/04/25/resisting-our-new-dark-age/#respond Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:40:26 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4144677 (RNS) — In a time of information excess, the need of the moment is more love and more rest.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/04/25/resisting-our-new-dark-age/feed/ 0 Mohler and the abortion abolitionists don’t take sin seriously enough https://religionnews.com/2024/03/25/mohler-and-the-abortion-abolitionists-dont-take-sin-seriously-enough/ https://religionnews.com/2024/03/25/mohler-and-the-abortion-abolitionists-dont-take-sin-seriously-enough/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:14:56 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4139538 (RNS) — Abortion is a failure not just of individuals but also of the village.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/03/25/mohler-and-the-abortion-abolitionists-dont-take-sin-seriously-enough/feed/ 0 The ‘biblical manhood’ industry is a scam https://religionnews.com/2024/02/15/the-biblical-manhood-industry-is-a-scam/ https://religionnews.com/2024/02/15/the-biblical-manhood-industry-is-a-scam/#respond Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:17:22 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4133022 (RNS) — The church is the last place where cultural stereotypes should be upheld as biblical truth.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/02/15/the-biblical-manhood-industry-is-a-scam/feed/ 0 An open letter to the Southern Baptist Convention https://religionnews.com/2024/02/09/an-open-letter-to-the-southern-baptist-convention/ https://religionnews.com/2024/02/09/an-open-letter-to-the-southern-baptist-convention/#respond Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:27:58 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4131980 (RNS) — Dear SBC, you don’t have to be this way.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/02/09/an-open-letter-to-the-southern-baptist-convention/feed/ 0 As we face the grind of a Trump-Biden clash, imagine them buddies for a moment https://religionnews.com/2024/01/24/as-we-face-the-grind-of-a-trump-biden-clash-imagine-them-buddies-for-a-moment/ https://religionnews.com/2024/01/24/as-we-face-the-grind-of-a-trump-biden-clash-imagine-them-buddies-for-a-moment/#respond Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:40:24 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4129361 (RNS) — Sometimes fakes serve to remind us of what we rightly desire and ought to pursue.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/01/24/as-we-face-the-grind-of-a-trump-biden-clash-imagine-them-buddies-for-a-moment/feed/ 0 The passages that got John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ banned by a Florida county https://religionnews.com/2024/01/05/the-passages-that-got-john-miltons-paradise-lost-banned-by-a-florida-county/ https://religionnews.com/2024/01/05/the-passages-that-got-john-miltons-paradise-lost-banned-by-a-florida-county/#respond Fri, 05 Jan 2024 20:18:40 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4126589 (RNS) — Would students in the state's Orange County be tempted by the 17th century classic? One can only hope.

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