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August 2010

August 06, 2010
The intellectual, academic world, according to some observers, has become "postsecular."  Scholars are now factoring...
August 06, 2010
It looks like the Islamic cultural center being proposed for construction near the site where...
August 05, 2010
To celebrate the doctrine of vocation and as a build up to Labor Day, let...
August 05, 2010
Ray Bradbury is not just a great science fiction writer.  He is a great writer,...
August 05, 2010
Joe Carter reflects on the meaning and practice of "evangelism": The term derives from the...
August 04, 2010
If you are reading this, we must have survived the storm on the sun that...
August 04, 2010
Some may consider that phrase a contradiction in terms.  But a new book contains the...
August 04, 2010
Some scholars are thinking that the Dead Sea Scrolls, those ancient texts that include some...
August 03, 2010
So says the president: President Obama outlined the changing U.S. role in Iraq on Monday...
August 03, 2010
Joe Carter tries to think what he ever saw in Ayn Rand, who despised Christianity...
August 03, 2010
We've talked about the Hospitallers, aka the Knights of Malta and--in Bo Giertz's novel by...
August 02, 2010
An anthropologist, Alex Golub, beginning with descriptions of the atheists' new unbaptism rite (which involves...
August 02, 2010
Upon the recommendation of many of you, we saw "Inception." What I like are complicated,...
August 02, 2010
Thanks for the good discussion on the weekend's post about Anne Rice rejecting Christianity, while...

July 2010

July 30, 2010
Anne Rice, the author of literate vampire novels who embraced Christianity, now says that she...
July 30, 2010
I don't know how long it's been since I've been to an actual movie theater....
July 30, 2010
This is not from an anti-environmentalist skeptic but from Time Magazine: The Deepwater Horizon explosion...
July 29, 2010
Joe Carter at First Things is leery of the Tea Party Movement, saying that true...
July 29, 2010
Most of it, at least: A U.S. judge has blocked the most controversial provisions of...
July 29, 2010
We have blogged earlier about the phenomenon of "temporary marriage" in Shi'ite Islam, which sanctions...
July 28, 2010
I am not what you would call an early adopter. Our one-and-half year old granddaughter...
July 28, 2010
Profits are way up, but employment is way down.  Harold Meyerson is worried about what...
July 28, 2010
Great Britain has a state-run health care system, having taken over virtually all medical care...
July 27, 2010
Consider not only this unspeakable sacrilege but the reason given for commiting it: St. Peter’s...
July 27, 2010
That post about the Post Office contained an intriguing concept.  It accuses the USPS of...
July 27, 2010
The U.S. Postal Service is having financial problems again and is proposing higher postage feeds...
July 26, 2010
Speaking of buying that Bo Giertz novel through this blog reminded me to thank all...
July 26, 2010
Last week the Washington Post outed thousands of top-secret security agencies, to the point of...
July 26, 2010
Despite North Korean threats to go nuclear, the U.S. and South Korea are going on...
July 26, 2010
Our electricity went out yesterday from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. Was it the North...
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