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First Links—7.7.15
No One Asks to be Buried with His iPadTim Wu, The New Yorker From the Trenches to…
“Will anti-gay Christians be politically and socially ostracized? I sure hope so.”
Sally Kohn, a liberal columnist once employed by Fox News, gave a TED talk in 2013: Liberals…
Why Gay Marriage is not like Divorce
Thomas Reese, writing about gay marriage in the National Catholic Reporter, argues that the Catholic bishops of the…
First Links—7.6.15
The Next Front in the Battle over Gay Rights Lydia Wheeler, The Hill Ontario Law Society’s Decision…
An Eastern Orthodox Perspective on Laudato Si
It was a special privilege for me to attend the formal publication of the green encyclical by…
First Links—7.3.15
A New Word on the Internet Betsy Morais, The New Yorker Millennial Republicans See Risk for Party…
Conservative Outrage Won’t Work
Peter Hellman, in a review of by Bryan Burrough’s Days of Rage, outlines how the frustrations of the…
What We’ve Been Reading (and Watching)
J. David Nolan Austen Ivereigh reports that when Jorge Mario Bergoglio was at the helm of the…
Celebrating the Fourth of July with Samuel Adams
This weekend, Americans across the nation will celebrate the 239th anniversary of our separation from the British…
More Words of Encouragement for Social Conservatives
During the past few days a number of commentators have discussed the numerous parallels between the Supreme…
First Links—7.2.15
How Corporate America Propelled Same-Sex Marriage Emily Cadei, Newsweek Right Divided, a Disciplined Left Steered the Supreme…
Mission to the City
In a hundred years it may be more important that you are from New York, Shanghai, New…
The Pope and the Plowman
After you exit the interstate and turn on a two lane strip of asphalt headed towards Wendell…
Rainbow White House
I write this post not as a partisan, but as an American. The White House should not ever…
“Reproductive Health” is a Trojan Horse
In “False Devils,” Nadja Wolfe of the World Youth Alliance asserts that “countries did not include abortion…
