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I haven't seen so many lies, misconstructions, affectations, and guffaw-invoking absurdities in a single editorial in a major American newspaper for a very long time. In fact I thought it wasn't possible to see so much foolishness in such a small space without satire being the ultimate goal. In the L.A. Times, however, Anne Lamott has succeeded in making a bigger fool of herself in one editorial than Maureen Dowd could hope to have achieved in a whole year's worth of blather. Lamott, an aging novelist that churns out those woefully indulgent tomes that forces readers to endure her darkest...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 28, 2007Omaha, NE (LifeNews.com) -- Creighton University in Nebraska has announced that it will cancel a planned speech by abortion advocate Anne Lamott after the Catholic school received significant outcry from pro-life advocates. School officials announced it has "mutually agreed" to shelve the talk with Lamott.News of the cancellation came yesterday and Lamott's appearance was slated for September 19 at the Jesuit university.In an announcement on the college's web site, officials said "Creighton University and author Anne Lamott have mutually agreed upon cancellation of her public lecture."Creighton officials said Lamott's public disagreement with Catholic teaching against...

EVERYTHING WAS going swimmingly on the panel. The subject was politics and faith, and I was on stage with two clergymen with progressive spiritual leanings, and a moderator who is liberal and Catholic. We were having a discussion with the audience of 1,300 people in Washington about many of the social justice topics on which we agree — the immorality of the federal budget, the wrongness of the president's war in Iraq. Then an older man came to the mike and raised the issue of abortion, and everyone just lost his or her mind. Or, at any rate, I did....

You are invited to take part in a unique and important event! Three prophetic speakers, Jim Wallis, Anne Lamott, and Richard Rohr, will be together for the first time in Washington, D.C., Jan. 14-16, 2006,for a conference titled Politics and Spirituality: Seeking a Public Integrity. This is an opportunity not to be missed! The country is hungry to replace a politics of blame and fear with a politics of solutions and hope. What better time to explore the vital connection between politics and spirituality than now? Come hear these nationally renowned speakers and authors dialogue on the critical topics of...