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Talk radio: healing words—not hateful words
Numerous radio talk shows out there these days are going a little over the top when it comes to a particular political message. Politics? Well, OK. We all have a right to vent. But hate? No thanks. Personally, I've had enough. I want to hear something different. Like love, for example. Here's a sampler of the negative rhetoric I'm talking about, heard over successive nights of cruising the AM dial:
• A recent president is characterized as symbolic of evil, along with Adolf Hitler.
• Muslims, particularly those in Afghanistan, are referred to as "ragheads"—presumably because of their headgear.
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About the author
Bill Dawley is senior managing editor, pring and broadcast, for the Sentinel.
January 20, 2003 issue
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Once green with prejudice
Warren Bolon
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letters
with contributions from Annette Plikerd, Susan J. Ehart
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items of interest
with contributions from Nailene Chou Wiest, Bob Harvey, Gigi Wood
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'Love is the question and the answer'
By Kim Shippey Senior Writer
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BREAKING THROUGH WALLS of PREJUDICE
with contributions from Marta Greenwood, Quinci Coates, Yolanda Nava, Tony Lobl, Frank Magwegwe
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The golden rule versus prejudice
By David Degler
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The search for peace in Jerusalem
By Kim Shippey Senior Writer
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The gentle givers
Text And Photographs By Tom Black
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Atonement—more than fiction?
By Barbara M. Vining Contributing Editor
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The afterglow of Christmas
By David Horn
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Talk radio: healing words—not hateful words
By Bill Dawley
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Stages of spiritual growth: healing and progressing
Joan Knowles
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A healing of guilt and of injury
Rosemarie Sauer