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Size and Redistribution of Christianity in the 20th century
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Convicts write letters to their younger selves
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This Year’s Holy Week News Grabber: Jesus’ Wife, Again
Every year we get some “breaking news” from 2000 years ago just in time for Easter. Poor Easter bunny just can’t seem to stay ahead. This year, Jesus’ Wife. Past years, Judas’ gospel, Jesus’ bones, etc. Let’s have some fun … Continue reading
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James Davison Hunter on our culture war of entitlement and ressentiment
HT: Dreher What adds pathos to our situation is the presence of what Nietzsche called “ressentiment.” His definition of this French word included what we in the English-speaking world mean by resentment, but it also involves a combination of anger, envy, hate, … Continue reading
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Branden Eich, the Culture War and Palm Sunday
Ideas Carry the World The Brendan Eich episode is the latest in our ongoing cultural conversation about belief, power and freedom in a pluralistic context. The world is filled with competing ideas on just about everything, and those ideas create, destroy, … Continue reading
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Liberal Vs. Progressive
Andrew Sullivan The Liberal Point by Jon Lovett: Atlantic: The Shut-up Culture The Progressive Point by J. Brian Lowder (couldn’t you find a more ironic name?!) “No, It’s not too soon to condemn public figures for being anti-gay” (which BTW confirms … Continue reading
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The Shut-Up Culture
The Atlantic The bottom line is, you don’t beat an idea by beating a person. You beat an idea by beating an idea. Not only is it counter-productive—nobody likes the kid who complains to the teacher even when the kid … Continue reading
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Abraham Kuyper and Race
HT Eric Dirksen told me about this conversation. I remember as a seminarian reading Kuyper’s Stone Lectures for the first time feeling very uncomfortable about what he was saying as I saw it in light of my upbringing in the … Continue reading
Douthat on why liberalism needs pluralism
NYT On liberal vs. progressive
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