I stumbled upon this article from seven years ago–another one by the great sociologist of religion Peter Berger. He distinguishes between three kinds of secularism: one that separates church and state but is not anti-religous; one that has an animus against public religion but is
I’ve blogged about the “transabled,” people who feel that they should have been born into a body that is disabled. After the jump is a story about a woman who felt that the way she “was supposed to be born” was to be blind. So
The Washington Examiner reports that Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives have arrived at a budget deal. Basically, Republicans agreed to lift spending caps, keep the government funded, and increase spending in return for some entitlement reforms and some tweaks of Obamacare. Read
A synod of bishops has been meeting at the Vatican discussing “the family” and possible changes to Roman Catholic practice, including being more welcoming to gays and allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion. The meeting closed on Sunday, proposing very few changes
Lincoln Chafee dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. With Jim Webb also quitting and Joe Biden deciding not to run, that leaves only three candidates: Hillary Clinton; Bernie Sanders; and Martin O’Malley. Actually, Sanders is not a Democrat but an Independent.
I was pulling for the Cubs, in honor of my late Father, a die-hard Cubs fan, but now that they were swept by the Mets, my way is clear to support the Kansas City Royals, the team that got me first seriously interested in baseball,
In Stillwater, Oklahoma, not far from where we live now, a woman drove her car into the crowd at a packed homecoming parade for Oklahoma State University. Four people were killed and nearly 50 were injured. At first, it was said that the 25-year-0ld woman
“It is God’s nature to make something out of nothing; hence one who is not yet nothing, out of him God cannot make anything. . . .Therefore God accepts only the forsaken, cures only the sick, gives sight only to the blind, restores life only
Republican insiders are realizing what they once thought was unthinkable: Donald Trump could win their party’s presidential nomination. This, despite the fact that he violates nearly every tenet of their constituency: he is not small government; he wants to increase taxes on the rich; he
Pluto lost its status as a planet in 2006, but the New Horizon space probe has found that it is no little frozen space rock, as had been assumed. Rather, it is one of the most complex, varied, geologically-active, and mysterious entities in the Solar
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