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Robert George provides a superb explanation for what makes America an exceptional nation. (Via: The Corner ) . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Which Girl Scout Cookies Score the Most Brownie Points? °°°°°° 2. Does Religion Influence Epidemics? °°°°°° 3. The Waffle House Index to Natural Disasters When a hurricane makes landfall, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relies . . . . Continue Reading »

Terry Mattingly provide a useful thought experiment for journalists : Let’s say that a bunch of retired journalists from the Los Angeles Times got together and, with a few converts who yearn for the good old journalism days in that great city, form a news organization that we will call, oh, . . . . Continue Reading »

End Human Trafficking: A Contemporary Slavery Public Discourse , Laura J. Lederer The Biggest Theological Debate of the Next Twenty Years Theology Matters , Andrew Wilson Child sex abuse convictions rise 60% in six years The Guardian Transgender 10 Year-Old Jackie, Born As a Boy, Happier As A Girl . . . . Continue Reading »

” One-child policy a surprising boon for China girls ” That’s the headline the AP chose for their article on China’s population control policy. And this is the opening: Tsinghua University freshman Mia Wang has confidence to spare. Asked what her home city of Benxi in . . . . Continue Reading »

CNN’s Belief blog has a brief interview with Keith Ellison , the first Muslim elected to Congress. I’ve always been fascinated by stories of people converting from Christianity to other faiths, so I had high expectations for the article (Ellison was raised a Catholic and went to . . . . Continue Reading »

Sign of the times of the day : From a report by the Public Religion Research Institute on religion and same-sex marriage. (Via: The Atlantic Wire ) . . . . Continue Reading »

The Lasting Effects of Your School Christianity Today The Good News about Bodies and the Sexualization of Children Mere Orthodoxy , Matthew Lee Anderson End Child Pornography: Enforce Adult Pornography Laws Public Discourse , Patrick A. Trueman In Germany, Sex Workers Feed a Meter New York Times , . . . . Continue Reading »

“Thinking Critically. Living Faithfully.” That’s the unintentionally ironic tagline of The Christian Century, a mainline publication that thinks critically about how to accommodate the faith so that progressives can faithfully live without tension with secularism. A prime . . . . Continue Reading »

Denny Burk makes the case that St. Paul was a widower : It is generally agreed that the apostle Paul was an unmarried man for the duration of his ministry. Not only does Acts omit any mention of Paul having a wife, but also Paul’s own letters seem to indicate the same. Nevertheless, there is . . . . Continue Reading »