Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

How money impacts behavior

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Would Someone Just Shut That Pope Up

We’re OK with him talking about sex, but not money.  The division of the fullness of Catholic thought in America has rendered it largely tractable in a nation that was always suspicious of Catholics. Lockean America tamed Catholicism not by … Continue reading →

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Portrait of a Minister’s Pain

Found this on an Atheist blog. Powerfully moving, very real, very true, very common. Worth reading.

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Loving and Hating “Love Actually”

The Dish

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God getting human on us

Jesus Creed. Why the challenge of Dawkins and Hitchens is both bracing and simplistic. The God who comes down into our mess. In other words, Dawkins and Hitchens offer a simplistic view of God and a simplistic view of Scripture. … Continue reading →

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Good King Wenceslas

I’ve heard the carol of course, but never read the text or understood the ballad. I’m amazed at how blind I can be to the beauty around me. From Rod Dreher on Christmas Carols Good King Wenceslas is about a … Continue reading →

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Story and History

From Jesus Creed: Dorothy Sayers and Cyrus popping out

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James Carroll in the New Yorker on Pope Francis

Who am I to Judge? “Who am I to judge?” With those five words, spoken in late July in reply to a reporter’s question about the status of gay priests in the Church, Pope Francis stepped away from the disapproving … Continue reading →

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Ross Douthat on 3 Views of the Manger Scene

NY Times Linked in this post: Physics: What We Do and Don’t know

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Peter Enns on getting a PhD in Biblical Studies

Patheos

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