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Making Sarah Palin Look Dumb
It’s too bad that disingenuity, self-interest, and lack of interest in “the facts” seem to drive the political machine. From the AtlanticWire’s “breakdown” of Sarah Palin’s O’Reilly Factor interview November 19, 2009, rebroadcast late December: Palin on Reading O’REILLY: Couric asked you an easy question [about what magazines or newspapers... »
Brit Hume on Tiger and (Me on) Tolerance
As is now common knowledge, Fox News’ Brit Hume has suggested Tiger Woods convert to the Christian faith, as his best bet for full “transgression” recovery and perhaps even greater role-model-dom than before. Bravo, Mr. Hume. Unfortunately, his words have not been met with the same spirit in which they were offered.... »
Finding the Center: Ecumenism and the Manhattan Declaration
It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of... »
Tiger Woods: Did the culture make him do it?
Nuts if I can find where I read comments to the effect that our current hyper-sexualized culture is partly to blame for Woods’ recently-revealed “transgressions;” otherwise I would link to it. That culture and Tiger’s position in it helped facilitate his many alleged infidelities can’t be denied, nor can the fact that ubiquitous sexual... »
Worship in Silence
This is a topic I’ve been reflecting on for awhile now, so while I know it doesn’t fit ideally with the current Thanksgiving motif, I didn’t want to squander these thoughts. I don’t often navigate in the world of worship ministry, so I have no idea if or to what extent this has been a... »
The Good Mommy Paradox
What are societal expectations of a mother these days, and how is she assisted in meeting them? How does society judge a mother? I give you two (fictitious, but entirely plausible) scenarios: Mother A: Sends Johnny off to school in the morning. Johnny spends the day at school, eats a taxpayer-subsidized... »
I knew it would happen
It had to happen. It always happens. “President Obama is today the victim of a disillusionment caused by the excessive hopes and expectations that were raised by candidate Obama.” So concludes Pat Buchanan in his column, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Call me a realist, a pessimist, a cynic, a nasty lady,... »
What Message Does It Send…?
Is the Church losing educated, skilled, articulate professional women due to a flawed or a one-dimensional gender paradigm? »
On Knowing What We’re Doing: Parents, Education, and Other Things
At Mere Orthodoxy, Jeremy Mann comments on what Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye says about parental vs. public school influence on children. Educators, he states, would do well to remember that “school is not a very powerful force in the lives of many students. School for many is a span of time they... »
On Culture Wars and the National Debt
In a recent Breakpoint Commentary, Chuck Colson points out that The Next Culture War deemed necessary by NYT columnist David Brooks isn’t exactly new. “According to Brooks, while Christians ‘were arguing about sex and the separation of church and state,’ they were ‘oblivious to the large erosion of economic values happening under their... »
