Thanks to my students Nathan Martin, David Carver, and Travis Jordan for their comments on that Obama video I posted yesterday. See their discussion on their excellent online magazine they and others have put together, entitled Patrol Magazine. What got ME about that video was
Brett Favre Set to Retire After 17 Years. He went out on a brilliant season. But his last play was an interception. Surely, we all hoped, that would be enough to bring him back. But, alas, no.
More naming the problem from Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, quoting Robert Bellah: The extreme of this view [post-denominationalism], however, is that ultimately everyone’s faith is under their own hat. Could we have millions of faiths, each with only one member? The sociologist Robert Bellah described this
Do you find this video as creepy, disturbing, and scary as I do? Parse its elements.
Feminists are incensed at opposition to Hillary Clinton, and especially to women who are supporting Obama instead of one of their own. “There are some people who promote Barack Obama because they want anybody but a woman,” says NOW official Marion Wagner. “Would they like
The president of Chicago Theological Seminary, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, gives us another useful word to name what is happening in American Christianity: Post-denominational It is clear from this Pew study that the old denominational affiliations no longer apply. The religious landscape in the U.S. is
Here is an interesting story about the revival in contemporary Judaism of the Mikveh, the ritual bath that goes back to Biblical times. Even today someone converting to Judaism must be immersed in the water. It was also used to deal with various kinds of
Islamic polygamy is going on underground throughout the West, including the United States. Canada allows multiple wives to collect welfare benefits, as long as the marriages were conducted out of the country. Read this.
Shortly before the Declaration of Independence was signed, Benedict Arnold led a colonial force to invade Canada, in the hopes of harrassing the English army and, more importantly, hoping the Canadian people might rise up in support of independence. Columnist Brian O’Malley quotes letters from
Christianity Today online has dusted off an interview with the recently-deceased William F. Buckley from 1995, featuring his advice to Christian activists. The interview shows his own Christian faith, as well as points like these: What frightens people most about the Religious Right is the
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