Hating on Bristol Palin, Back in Style
Hank Stuever writes in The Washington Post a review of Bristol Palin’s reality show, which debuted last night on Lifetime, called “Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp.” The review does not get off to a good...
View ArticleCompassion Has Always Been Conservative
Every now and then, the reality-based community gets a reality check. One particularly bruising encounter with hard facts came recently in the form of a newly released study in The Chronicle of...
View ArticleWhy We Need More Religion in Politics, Not Less
Last week I received another expression of a very common sentiment in the comments box at Philosophical Fragments – and the commenter wished it known that she was “not a libertine” but a 50-year-old...
View ArticleBreakfast Links for 12/11/12 – Sex and Control; What Ticks Jesus Off;...
BREAKFAST LINKS 12/11/12: Calah Alexander, Patheos/Barefoot and Pregnant: “For these people, how painful must it be to read a prominent, widely adored Catholic blogger encouraging men to “control”...
View ArticleBreakfast Links for 12/13/12 – Leave Your Snakes Home; Jedi Knights and...
BREAKFAST LINKS 12/13/12: Arlene Sanchez-Walsh, Patheos/Re-Generacion: “When I started teaching a class on global Pentecostalism this fall, I think the word was out that I was Pentecostal, and one of...
View ArticleBreakfast Links for 12/14/12 – Hobbit on Steroids; Verbal Autopsies; NASA vs....
BREAKFAST LINKS 12/14/12: Jeffery Overstreet, Patheos/Good Letters: “But where Tolkien served the head and the heart, Jackson serves the appetite for adrenalin rush.” Bradley Abramson, Christian Post:...
View ArticleSocial Justice, Guns, and God
The variety of intelligent things being said, representing a variety of positions on the issues, is a part of what I love about the Evangelical Channel at Patheos: Joel J. Miller: When it comes to the...
View ArticleLoud on Poverty, Quiet on Abortion: The Danger of Selective Theonomy
My friend Rob Schwarzwalder from the Family Research Council offers the following guest post this morning: * Religion, Morality, and Policy: The Danger of Selective Theonomy By Rob Schwarzwalder...
View ArticleDuck Dynasty and the Secular Theocracy
I am always delighted to receive a guest post from David J. Theroux, who is Founder, President and CEO of The Independent Institute. His essays are often comprehensive, always thoughtful, and always...
View ArticlePhil Robertson’s Victory Over the Secular Theocracy
Editorial Note: This is the second installment in a two-part series on Duck Dynasty and what it reveals regarding America’s “secular theocracy,” from the inimitable David Theroux, President and CEO of...
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