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Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

RC School Teachers in SF and NJ

New Jersey Patricia Jannuzi NJ Rod Dreher National Review with her FB rant that drew the heat San Francisco Fox News Slate Aleteia LA Times: SF RC Teachers Oppose Moral Code SF City Attorney Wades In Students Speak Out Full Page … Continue reading →

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David Brooks: Skills Needed for Today

NYTimes On Excellence in Teaching

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David Brooks, the Zero sum Moment

NYTimes Both parties, though, change shape to fit the zero-sum contours of the moment. Progressives emphasize compassion less and redistribution more. Conservatives emphasize entrepreneurial dynamism less and the threat of government elites more. Electorates get a little uglier when faith … Continue reading →

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Charles Blow on the Race Card

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Teaching Turtles to Talk, Participating in the Same Sex Marriage Debate with City Church San Francisco

“If We Don’t Talk About It Maybe It Will Go Away” (we say in denial) Of the hundreds of people who have read the posts in this series very few have commented directly. The most vocal comment has been “this … Continue reading →

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Slouching Towards Mecca

Mark Lilla NY Review of Books ht Dreher François thinks he sees a new social model developing before his eyes, inspired by a religion he knows little about, and which he imagines has the polygamous family at its center. Men … Continue reading →

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The End of the Poor Two Parent Household

Slate ht Dreher Putnam makes this point early in Our Kids: Of the values-versus-economics debate, he says simply that, “The most reasonable view is that both are important.” How come? For one, we can look back to the Great Depression … Continue reading →

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Review of Richard John Neuhaus Biography

Alan Jacobs HT. Dreher Boyagoda shows very clearly that as the Sixties moved into the Seventies Neuhaus found his allies moving farther and farther away from him. The religious left became less and less willing to challenge even the grossest … Continue reading →

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Roman Slavery

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Hirsi Ali in the WSJ on Why Islam Needs a Reformation

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