Friday, 5/9/14
Life is messy The Psychology of God? Common Core Who cares what the Church “stands for”? Great in the Hamptons, but will it play in Watts? We got Bin Laden, but missed polio Can real diversity be...
View ArticleMonday, 5/12/14
Religious freedom in Oregon and elsewhere Botched execution a feature, not a bug? Is a painful death evil? Well, if the NSA says it, that settles it! Carry me back … Venerable animosity 1 A Jewish...
View ArticleFriday, 5/16/14
AFA stays the (wrong) course More on Pfizer and the Thing That Used To Be Capitalism Can “irrational” and “hateful” religion be permitted? Ecce Femme: St. Mariam the New Martyr The apocalyptic glory of...
View ArticleHobby Lobby – a different facet
Being a "Christian corporation," a "Christian-themed chain," or any other Christian mainstream thing these days is problematic.
View ArticleSaturday, 8/2/14
Religious freedom, E Pluribus Pluribus, pumping paper, The key habit of those some count "losers," and TERF Wars.
View ArticleHouse Cleaning
I had a bit of a backlog of blogs I'd saved for future comment. I tossed many for having passed the sell-by date, but some problems and idiocies are perennial.
View ArticleSaturday, 8/23/14
Four spiritual phenomena: spirituality without religion; near-death experiences; failed apostasies; and an in-your-face claim that's surely from The Evil One.
View ArticleFriday 11/21/14
Which one of these was the Philanthropist? How the Russian Church Survived Sex and Character Preening over People Don’t worry your pretty little head “Be fruitful, gelding.” Preening over Peace Bill...
View ArticleWhere the action is
Where the action ain’t Where the action is Who killed the commonality? 1 On the editorial pages of the New York Times, novelist Silas House bemoaned homophobia in rural America. He adduces not a single...
View ArticleFeast of St. Nicholas 2014
The headline identifies the date, not the content. Are loosies worth killing over? GOP coalesces, Dems fracture. Barbarian kills a cultural institution. More ....
View ArticleFriday, 1/16/15
How do we know in the epistemological sense, and how do we speak with (or muzzle) those from whom we might learn?
View ArticleSaturday, 1/17/15
Over at The Thing That Used To Be Evangelicalism, strategists are busily drafting the terms of their prophetic capitulation.
View ArticleI too have a dream
I’ve been waiting for years for some state legislator to give this speech when the baying hounds are out, howling “Unconstitutional!” about some state Bill: I took an oath upon entering office to...
View ArticleWednesday, 2/18/15
Musings on "Christian Art," porn, secularization as a subterfuge, hate crimes lite, legislative education adventures, and yet another reminder of clay feet.
View ArticleMiddleweight SSM Opponents duke it out
When it comes to florists, photographers and bakers who decline to service same-sex weddings, I thought the arguments for the two (or more) sides were getting a bit stale. I don’t exclude my own...
View ArticleThursday, 3/19/15
Opening with "an eerie phase of history" and in a sense never changing that subject.
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