and we get this nice greeting from a Snow Leopard baby!<\/div>\n
(And I must be crazy.)<\/div>\n
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John Frye<\/a><\/b> sees Jesus as a discernment artist. This is a good read and a big idea.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Andy Stanley<\/a><\/b> at his best.<\/div>\n
Inner peace<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>\n
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<\/a><\/span>David Dunbar<\/a><\/b> nails it for many of us. Time to get off the bus.<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/span>David Dunbar<\/a><\/b> nails it for many of us. Time to get off the bus.<\/div>\nAllan Bevere<\/b><\/a> posts a map of the most and least religious States.<\/div>\n
Chaplain Mike<\/a><\/b>, at iMonk, leads a writers\u2019 roundtable.<\/div>\n
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A good chart on motherhood<\/a><\/b>. (HT: RJS\/MK)<\/div>\n
The sex life of college students<\/a><\/b> (on one campus).<\/div>\n
The farm life of young adults<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>\n
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Sarah<\/a><\/b> asks \u201cDo you do denominations?\u201d<\/div>\n
Who does the speaking for evangelicals<\/b><\/a>?<\/div>\n
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The skinny on diets<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>\n
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Meanderings in the News<\/div>\n
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1. From The Washington Post<\/a><\/b>: \u201cThese are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
2. Robert Marquand<\/a><\/b>, at CSM, sums it all up with this: \u201c<\/span>Vatican officials today said the attempt to ordain women in the Roman Catholic church is not an equal crime to priestly pedophilia \u2013 even as critics point out that in practice, the ordination of women is dealt with more harshly inside the church than are charges of priests abusing children.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
3. Russ Reno<\/a><\/b>: \u201c<\/span>But even Benedict\u2019s renewal can only do so much. The Vatican also needs a more flexible central command, one capable of coordinated, intelligent responses to challenges. Her governing structures and bureaucracies are superannuated forms of a system originally designed to run a Church thoroughly intertwined with European society, not a vibrant, active, and counter-cultural Church. The Church needs a leadership that know they are always at a disadvantage, and that they can no longer rely on deference or favors if she is to meet the storm, and it will be a storm, of social disestablishment and elite hostility .\u201d
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<\/a><\/span>4. E.J. Dionne Jr<\/a><\/b>., on Obama\u2019s centrist ideas: \u201c<\/span>But this should not be seen as an alibi for Obama as the moderate, misunderstood progressive, though this is more or less what he is. The president\u2019s most important tasks include convincing the public that he\u2019s doing the right thing and improving the standing of the politicians who support him in doing it. Here is where Obama has fallen down on the job.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/a><\/span>4. E.J. Dionne Jr<\/a><\/b>., on Obama\u2019s centrist ideas: \u201c<\/span>But this should not be seen as an alibi for Obama as the moderate, misunderstood progressive, though this is more or less what he is. The president\u2019s most important tasks include convincing the public that he\u2019s doing the right thing and improving the standing of the politicians who support him in doing it. Here is where Obama has fallen down on the job.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n5. How long does helicoptering last<\/a><\/b>?\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
6. David Brooks<\/a><\/b>: \u201c<\/span>When historians look back on this p
\neriod, they will see it as another progressive era. It is not a liberal era \u2014 when government intervenes to seize wealth and power and distribute it to the have-nots. It\u2019s not a conservative era, when the governing class concedes that the world is too complicated to be managed from the center. It\u2019s a progressive era, based on the faith in government experts and their ability to use social science analysis to manage complex systems.\u00a0<\/span>This progressive era is being promulgated without much popular support. It\u2019s being led by a large class of educated professionals, who have been trained to do technocratic analysis, who believe that more analysis and rule-writing is the solution to social breakdowns, and who have constructed ever-expanding networks of offices, schools and contracts.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
\neriod, they will see it as another progressive era. It is not a liberal era \u2014 when government intervenes to seize wealth and power and distribute it to the have-nots. It\u2019s not a conservative era, when the governing class concedes that the world is too complicated to be managed from the center. It\u2019s a progressive era, based on the faith in government experts and their ability to use social science analysis to manage complex systems.\u00a0<\/span>This progressive era is being promulgated without much popular support. It\u2019s being led by a large class of educated professionals, who have been trained to do technocratic analysis, who believe that more analysis and rule-writing is the solution to social breakdowns, and who have constructed ever-expanding networks of offices, schools and contracts.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
7. The earth\u2019s atmospheric changes<\/a><\/b>.<\/span><\/div>\n
8. Ross Douthat <\/a><\/b>on university admissions: \u201c<\/span>If such universities are trying to create an elite as diverse as the nation it inhabits, they should remember that there\u2019s more to diversity than skin color \u2014 and that both their school and their country might be better off if they admitted a few more R.O.T.C. cadets, and a few more aspiring farmers.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n