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November 2014

November 28, 2014

Very Dubious Miracles

"I had my doubts, from the moment I read the headline, 'The evangelicals who believe...

November 27, 2014

Penelope Fitzgerald’s Tone of Command

“I’m sorry I’m late, but my house sank.” So explained Penelope Fitzgerald to her students...

November 21, 2014

The Obama Mythology

The Atlantic's fairyland view of Obama: From today's "This Week on TheAtlantic.com" email, the description of...

November 21, 2014

Why Liberals Love Francis

To believe that Francis is now suddenly maneuvering the Church into acceptance of homosexual "marriage"...

November 21, 2014

Francis Directs the Minister

A friend responds to my story about the Southern Baptist evangelist James Robison, High Fivin'...

November 20, 2014

Sekulow, Rodriquez, and Panetti

The name of gold-plated conservative Jay Sekulow appears on the petition to spare from execution...

November 19, 2014

The Man Who High-Fived the Pope

Meet the Southern Baptist evangelist who high-fived the pope and feels a surprising, and encouraging, passion...

November 19, 2014

Celebrating LBGT TV

TV Helped Change the Country’s View of LGBT Life, as I wrote a few days...

November 17, 2014

Dishonoring Cremation

An essay by the philosopher Rachel Lu taking up the subject of Friday's The Grave...

November 16, 2014

Distant Neighbors, and Other Insights

A discussion with a friend reminded me of one of the best essays I ever...

November 16, 2014

TV Helped Change the Country’s View of LGBT Life

"As television has long been a pivotal platform for addressing controversial issues, it has engendered...

November 14, 2014

Please Unfriend Him

Cheers for Father Larry Richards, who wrote on his Facebook page in October: If you...

November 14, 2014

The Grave Not Taken

Something I wrote a few years ago, of which I was reminded by the essay...

November 13, 2014

Dying Feels Like Abandonment

A moving, lovely essay about aging, loss, and death by Bonnie Friedman, The Watcher, subtitled...

November 13, 2014

The Perils of Reading, or Misreading

From The New Republic's story on the once infamous fiction-writer Steven Glass: "Steve Glass now lives in...

November 12, 2014

Christianity Is For Losers

My latest column for Aleteia. It begins: “I wouldn’t go to church with my plumber.”...

November 12, 2014

Eat Civilized

In Mother Jones, Michael Pollan explains What's Wrong With the Paleo Diet. He argues, essentially, that civilizations...

November 12, 2014

Just Don’t Mention the Church to Converts

An accurate list of Ten Things Not to Say to a Convert, by Abby Johnson. This...

November 11, 2014

Virtue Pays Also

The philosopher Rachel Lu responds to my Promiscuity Pays with an article on the blessings of...

November 11, 2014

It’s a Funny Old World 13

Clearly bats, but entertaining so: the people who believe that another civilization exists under the...

November 11, 2014

What’s in the name Mullarkey?

A short but poignant reflection on names by my friend Maureen Mullarkey, What's In a...

November 10, 2014

The New York Encounter

In the "quest to redefine our identity, in the struggle between our boundless aspirations and...

November 10, 2014

It’s a Funny Old World 12

"For the second pageant, in October," writes Meredith Hattam in The Atlantic, I was hired to...

November 10, 2014

Not Off to Rome

The obscure corners of American Christianity department: A friend asked if a higher percentage of...

November 10, 2014

Do Not Marry the Daughters of Men

Referring to that mysterious passage early in Genesis: "When man began to multiply on the face...

November 09, 2014

LifeNews & the Truth

Here's the headline from LifeNews: Wendy Davis Campaign Blames Massive Defeat on Ebola. Here's the lede:...

November 09, 2014

The NYTimes Misses the Point

Asked by the Times' public editor Margaret Sullivan, dealing with readers' objections that the newspaper is...

November 07, 2014

The Atlantic Feels the Urgency

The Atlantic says in its latest newsletter "Time for SCOTUS to Tackle Gay Marriage." Meaning: Do...

November 07, 2014

Her Mom Has Brain Cancer But Does Not Choose Death

Nadin Naumann's mother has the same type of brain cancer as Brittany Maynard. She is...

November 07, 2014

Have Putin’s Baby By Mail

Russia . . . Russian Lawmaker Proposes Mailing Putin Sperm to Impregnate Russian Women, reports the...

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