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June 14, 2011

Gift Ideas for Father's Day

My relationship with my father is, and has always been, one of the greatest blessings...

June 12, 2011

Sunday Funnies

1. Sometimes The Onion is more on-the-mark than the regular news: 2. But as someone...

June 05, 2011

Sunday Funnies, June 5th

"Thumbs Up for Rock and Roll!" Hilarious. I don't know if this is a future...

June 04, 2011

Lists of the Week

Nine Ways to Increase Your Productivity While Working from Home From the Daily Beast, 25...

June 02, 2011

Future President, Future Dictator, or Future Exercise Guru: "Thumbs Up for Rock and Roll!"

I'm relaunching a series I've done on other blogs called Sunday Funnies. So, throughout the...

May 2011

May 31, 2011

Is it Wrong for a Wife to "Let Herself Go" After Marriage? – Christ, Freedom, and the Law of Beauty

Recently a well known Christian blogger, Rachel Held Evans, offered some thoughts on concepts of...

May 27, 2011

Harold Camping Needs an Intervention

Some of the intersections of faith and politics are so littered with landmines that it's...

May 21, 2011

A Letter to Harold Camping and Those Who Expected Judgment Day

[Note: Many thanks to those who have shared this letter. Thanks to Ed, Dillon, Collin,...

May 20, 2011

The Disintegration of the American Elite

I'm preparing a post on the conditions afflicting the American elite class. A couple days...

May 16, 2011

Worth Reading Today

Pieces of news and commentary I found interesting or important this morning: 1. Giving credit...

May 09, 2011

God Doesn't Give Us What We Deserve – So Should We Be Glad bin Laden "Got What He Deserved"?

Last week I began a series of three posts responding to the death of Osama...

May 03, 2011

Were those who celebrated bin Laden's death like those who celebrated the 9/11 atrocity?

Imagine that some righteous German, a man very much like Bonhoeffer, had managed to kill...

April 2011

April 29, 2011

Royal Wedding Theology

You've got to hand it to the Brits: they know how to do pomp and...

March 2011

March 16, 2011

"God is Stronger Than the Worst Disease" – Remembering Bill Stuntz

I learned yesterday evening that the great soul, Bill Stuntz, a professor at Harvard Law...

January 2011

January 14, 2011

Crouching Tiger Mom, Hidden Western Dad: Why Chinese Mothers are Average, Part 3.1

And here we are at the end of all things. No, wait a minute, it's...

December 2010

December 03, 2010

The Right Not to Know – Thoughts on the Wikileaks Controversy

I must confess that I've enjoyed reading some of the revelations that have emerged from...

November 2010

November 19, 2010

Touch My Junk, Please!

A lot of commentary has appeared in recent days over the new TSA regulations that...

November 18, 2010

Worth Reading Today – November 16 – What the Midterms Meant, How Bad Data Spreads, and Vernon Grounds

A few items worth reading today: 1. Steven Malanga is an excellent writer for the...

November 12, 2010

My Absence

Just a note that I have been absent for a little over a week now,...

October 2010

October 20, 2010

Was O'Donnell Right About the "Separation" of Church and State?

Yesterday, liberal blogs were delighted to find two occasions to mock Tea-Party-associated women. The first...

October 11, 2010

Is There *Wisdom* in the Obama White House? Let Us Pray.

I am in our nation's capital today, for reasons I will explain tomorrow. This morning...

September 2010

September 29, 2010

Why Christine O'Donnell's "Witchcraft" Matters

I half agree and half disagree with my respected colleague, the manager of Patheos' Pagan...

September 27, 2010

Manufacturing the Middle Class

Philo of Alexandria - whose blog I have never visited before, but I might now...

September 24, 2010

From the Vault: a Word and a Shelter

Since I am still wrestling with computer demons, here is a repost from an older...

September 23, 2010

The Holy Ghost in the Machine

Since my computer is on the fritz (I have a sweet date with a Mac...

September 19, 2010

Weekend Post – Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?

Was America founded as a Christian nation? The question is in the air. On the...

September 17, 2010

Is the Tea Party 'Childish'?

At last the Tea Party has shaken not only the presently prevailing (but not long...

September 16, 2010

Introducing Philosophical Fragments

This blog takes its title from Philosophical Fragments, a brief and brilliant work published in...

July 2010

July 23, 2010

The Daily Trinity – Blinded by "The Painter of Light," John Ortberg, Evangelicals on Immigration, and Shirley Sherrod

For quite some time, I posted what I called the "Morning Report" -- although it...

July 05, 2010

Morning Links

Sites and stories I've enjoyed this weekend: "Abba Changes Everything" at Christianity Today on how...

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