Gender Debate
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... »
Follow-up on Brit Hume on Tiger Woods (links)
Some noteworthy commentary by other Christian bloggers: In Secularism and Brit Hume, Hunter Baker @First Things’ Evangel links to Big Hollywood’s Adam Baldwin, who quotes Baker on secularism: “…a radical concept that involves the privatization of religious belief: when we are together in the public square, if we are ‘virtuous and civil’ then we will... »
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... »
The Plimoth Experiment
In journaling the Plymouth settlement’s early years, William Bradford writes, “…All this whille no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expecte any. So they begane to thinke how they might raise as much torne as they could, and obtaine a beter crope then they had done, that they might... »
Post-Civil-War Reflection on American Women: Education, Companionship, Housekeeping, and Pie
The following excerpt is from The Human Side of American History; ed. Richard C. Brown, late Professor Emeritus of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY; from the 6th printing, 1968 by Ginn and Company, now part of Pearson PLC of London. The book appears to be out of... »
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... »
“With the Right Spirit and Actions…
…any marriage can be restored.” I so appreciated this story from Focus on the Family of how a dying long-term marriage was saved. “Al” and “Olivia” had grown apart years before, each putting their energy into just about everything but each other. After so many years of neglect, Al had fallen... »
