Candace has an excellent post and a cautionary word to progressives: All the screaming from liberals and progressives about Warren’s pending prayer on January 20 only serves to make our community look petty and intractable. It’s been said that if you fight something long enough, there is a danger of becoming what you hate. I [...]
Economist with humor? Do you find it odd that so few economists foresaw the current credit disaster? Some did. The person with the most serious claim for seeing it coming is Dean Baker, the Washington economist. I saw it coming in general terms. But there are at least 15,000 professional economists in this country, and [...]
Salvation is free, but it can be stolen: St. Marks Episcopal Church in Glen Ellyn, Ill. is installing the [GPS] devices in each of the figurines in its 40-year-old nativity scene. There is Joseph, Mary, Baby Jesus, one wise man, a camel, a donkey and a sheep. There used to be a cow, but it [...]
Only this time it’s us: The report is the result of a two year investigation and concluded that both the policies adopted and the controversies that emerged as a result of those policies ultimately tarnished the reputation of the United States and undermined national security. It stated unequivocally that the results those policies produced were [...]
Jazz Shaw is looking at the possible Constitutional arguments for same-sex marriage. Almost as interesting as Shaw’s arguments are the comments afterwards. Like this: The problem with using the 14th and Loving to force states to allow gay marriage is the slippery slope issue. What legal justification would remain against polygamy or incestuous marriages, between [...]
This is the coolest advent calendar ever. Just click around. If it isn’t the right day, it will show you where to click. Meanwhile, there are cool videos for every day that is now open. Sphere: Related Content
Should non-priests officiate at Holy Communion? Does it somehow make it less holy or less a cornerstone of the church? Count my vote as one that includes the laity. Perhaps it is my upbringing in the stripped-down, bare-bones Church of Christ, but I find the idea that a priest is required for Holy Communion to [...]
If I had written this last year, I probably would have joined Tim Schenck’s comments with my own. There is, after all, no way to burnish one’s religious bona fides faster than to decry the commercialization of Christmas. It is the foundational block of the faux “War on Christmas”. Schenck writes: I have nothing against [...]
Elyas Bakhtiari has an interesting observation picked up from Secular Right. It seems that prayer and partisanship have rather strong correlations (though no one actually did that work, it would seem). He picks up a comment from a reader of Andrew Sullivan as the “best” explanation for this: “The more willing you are to “believe” [...]
Jon Henke writes: In 2003, Megan McArdle coined Jane’s Law: “The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.” Some friends on the Left appear to be exploring both. That’s about all the substance there is to the post. It’s an observation worth [...]
