I have been gone for a long time; i wrote this last night and posted it also on the weekly standard wesbite this morning. it’s a case of double entry blogkeeping, but i can’t resist. How low can you go? This is the question confronting the nation in the aftermath of President . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve uploaded a little file which mined out some data from a site called ARDA simply to stake out some signposts for the major bru-ha-ha about the reported death of Evangelicalism.It’s a ZIP file, but inside the file is an old-school .xls file with two tabs — one listing the net . . . . Continue Reading »
So lots of folks here in Rochester are talking about Sarah who will be signing books at one of our local Borders this Saturday. The whole drama following her public life is mostly silly and it’s hard to imagine that she could ever be a serious contender for the GOP’s nomination in . . . . Continue Reading »
For years the identify of the pseudonymous Asia Times ’ columnist Spengler remained a well-guarded secret. Last night on CNBC the mystery man was revealed to be . . . . . . First Things ’ senior editor David Goldman ! Whoa, wait a minute, didn’t we already announce that back in . . . . Continue Reading »
Darrell Bock reviews Bart Ehrman’s book Jesus, Interrupted. I especially liked this paragraph, which captures very well my own concern about what I’ve read by Ehrman:I think what is most bothersome in this book is the way it sets up discussions. It pursues a topic for several pages, . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s my American conclusion of my article critical of European depoliticization: The Americans, as our English friend Chesterton observed with some ambivalence, are the seeming oxymoron, a creedal nation. We are, he memorably said, “a nation with the soul of the church.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Novelist Cormac McCarthy gives a fascinating interview to the Wall Street Journal in which he discusses, among other things, books, movies, God, cultural permanence, and ideas. At one point, the interview turns to the modern attention span, and how novelists must adapt: WSJ: Does this issue of . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Barone examines the latest data on abortion rates and finds an interesting pattern : Roe v. Wade imposed the same legal abortion regime on the entire nation and made abortion a national political issue. Yet Americans in different regions and states have in effect established very different . . . . Continue Reading »
My recent reading of the Progressive Revival blog provides a good opportunity to explain my own identity as a progressive Christian. Of course I must immediately point out that what the larger society deems progress may not necessarily be genuinely progressive, which raises the central issue of what . . . . Continue Reading »
John Mark Reynolds takes another tack on the question regarding the heroes in our midst and not in the distant past, although he mentions at least one of them as well.One approach to the question of the hero is to start with the particular. That is to say, before you have a hero, you have heroic . . . . Continue Reading »
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