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November 2014

November 28, 2014
"I had my doubts, from the moment I read the headline, 'The evangelicals who believe...
November 27, 2014
“I’m sorry I’m late, but my house sank.” So explained Penelope Fitzgerald to her students...
November 21, 2014
The Atlantic's fairyland view of Obama: From today's "This Week on TheAtlantic.com" email, the description of...
November 21, 2014
To believe that Francis is now suddenly maneuvering the Church into acceptance of homosexual "marriage"...
November 21, 2014
A friend responds to my story about the Southern Baptist evangelist James Robison, High Fivin'...
November 20, 2014
The name of gold-plated conservative Jay Sekulow appears on the petition to spare from execution...
November 19, 2014
Meet the Southern Baptist evangelist who high-fived the pope and feels a surprising, and encouraging, passion...
November 19, 2014
TV Helped Change the Country’s View of LGBT Life, as I wrote a few days...
November 17, 2014
An essay by the philosopher Rachel Lu taking up the subject of Friday's The Grave...
November 16, 2014
A discussion with a friend reminded me of one of the best essays I ever...
November 16, 2014
"As television has long been a pivotal platform for addressing controversial issues, it has engendered...
November 14, 2014
Cheers for Father Larry Richards, who wrote on his Facebook page in October: If you...
November 14, 2014
Something I wrote a few years ago, of which I was reminded by the essay...
November 13, 2014
A moving, lovely essay about aging, loss, and death by Bonnie Friedman, The Watcher, subtitled...
November 13, 2014
From The New Republic's story on the once infamous fiction-writer Steven Glass: "Steve Glass now lives in...
November 12, 2014
My latest column for Aleteia. It begins: “I wouldn’t go to church with my plumber.”...
November 12, 2014
In Mother Jones, Michael Pollan explains What's Wrong With the Paleo Diet. He argues, essentially, that civilizations...
November 12, 2014
An accurate list of Ten Things Not to Say to a Convert, by Abby Johnson. This...
November 11, 2014
The philosopher Rachel Lu responds to my Promiscuity Pays with an article on the blessings of...
November 11, 2014
Clearly bats, but entertaining so: the people who believe that another civilization exists under the...
November 11, 2014
A short but poignant reflection on names by my friend Maureen Mullarkey, What's In a...
November 10, 2014
In the "quest to redefine our identity, in the struggle between our boundless aspirations and...
November 10, 2014
"For the second pageant, in October," writes Meredith Hattam in The Atlantic, I was hired to...
November 10, 2014
The obscure corners of American Christianity department: A friend asked if a higher percentage of...
November 10, 2014
Referring to that mysterious passage early in Genesis: "When man began to multiply on the face...
November 09, 2014
Here's the headline from LifeNews: Wendy Davis Campaign Blames Massive Defeat on Ebola. Here's the lede:...
November 09, 2014
Asked by the Times' public editor Margaret Sullivan, dealing with readers' objections that the newspaper is...
November 07, 2014
The Atlantic says in its latest newsletter "Time for SCOTUS to Tackle Gay Marriage." Meaning: Do...
November 07, 2014
Nadin Naumann's mother has the same type of brain cancer as Brittany Maynard. She is...
November 07, 2014
Russia . . . Russian Lawmaker Proposes Mailing Putin Sperm to Impregnate Russian Women, reports the...
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