It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. This week, songs with names in the title -- names beginning with the letter 'A.' (Can you guess what next week's list will be?) Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. This week, songs with names in the title -- names beginning with the letter 'A.' (Can you guess what next week's list will be?) Read more
I want to write today about an immensely important topic, the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the vital, inviolable rights it guarantees. These rights are not mere perks or privileges, but necessary, essential rights for all the people in any free society, any nation in which the rule of law means more than … Wait, hold on a sec. What? They found ricin in Las Vegas!!! Screw the Fourth Amendment ... Read more
"Legendary pianist Van Cliburn, the only solo musician of any genre to receive a ticker-tape parade in New York City and the first classical musician to sell a million albums, died Wednesday morning in his Fort Worth, Texas, home. The 78-year-old Texan soared to world fame in 1958 when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War." Read more
What makes this extraordinary is partly the substance of this conversation, but more than that it's the location of this conversation. This is taking place within the evangelical Christian world -- a part of the church where feminism is often presumed to be a threat, an enemy, or at best a dangerously "controversial" idea. And it's there -- within that subculture -- that this Feminisms Fest conversation is taking place. Read more
Norah Jones covers Johnny Cash, plus some Thursday morning links, including: Thomas Merton; Dorothy Day; decriminalizing blasphemy; the holy extinguished; grace and bacon; Poor Louis's Almanack; what the polling data says about your relationship; the Evil Empire; and an aviation study that breaks new wind. Read more
One of the nice things about being a liberal is that you never need to pretend that you’re actually a barbaric hoodlum who only behaves civilly due to fear of punishment from the 101st Airborne. Read more
Is this evidence of Christian hypocrisy or evidence of Christian honesty? Or is it just further evidence that Christians lack a coherent sexual ethic? Read more
Video of a basketball turnover for the ages, plus a dozen more reasons to celebrate, including: high school graduation rates going up and juvenile incarceration rates going down; equal benefits for equal service; more renewable energy capacity; conservatives standing up to David Barton's mendacity; a big vote in Illinois; a big step toward justice and greater public safety in Houston; good news on housing. Read more
I'm all in favor of public funding for sports stadiums, but only when the public owns a stake in the team. Otherwise it's a taxpayer subsidy of a private company that doesn't need taxpayers' help. Read more
… They are Dead and they were innocent: I will not Let you sacrifice their deaths To make injustice justice and God good! Read more
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