I have previously written about the water tower cross in Whiteville, Tennessee three times: here, here, and here. The...
Religion
While I was away traversing the mighty jungles of mid-town Manhattan, I had the chance to see...
I do love A Bit of Fry & Laurie. This is quite a brilliant sketch, whatever you make...
I’ve had this sort of nebulous notion that culture itself is a problem. Not any particular culture,...
A certain kind of religious activist takes it as a given, and as an imperative, that the...
We were arguing about art at work in the lab the other day. Not the aesthetic value...
I keep trying to better understand James Poulos. I like James a great deal, though we disagree pretty...
There’s been a long and somewhat intense discussion going on in the comments over at Kyle’s sub-blog...
“Who do you think made the first stone spear? That wasn’t the yakkity yaks sitting around the...
When I published my fantasy piece in the Atlantic it was linked (reproduced?) by Richard Dawkins’ site...
Balloon Juice defines “going Galt” as: Withdrawing one’s unique brilliance from the economy in protest of tax...
~by RTod On Wednesday Erik posted a picture of two (presumably) married costumed lesbians, kissing while holding...
By Kyle Cupp I was born to a Buddhist father and a somewhat lapsed Catholic mother, so...
The last time I checked, most Muslims in the United States were not blowing themselves up in...
~ by Sean Byrnes As I imagine is the case in many religious services, the biblical readings...
At one of our excellent sub-blogs, Alex Knapp makes this commonsensical point: We live in a country...
I mentioned a month or so ago that since my engagement, I’ve sort of re-channeled the views...
Ta-Nehisi has pushed once again into the abortion and slavery debate, this time following the invocation of...
Via Joe Carter, a series of one-sentence summaries of the Bible from various “scholars and pastors.” None...
By Kyle Cupp In his post on Islamic terminology, Ned Resnikoff observed: Whereas Talmudic scholars disagree with...
