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Saturday, March 22, 2008

The Resurrection Narratives

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One of the arguments against the belief that on the first Easter Jesus actually did rise from the dead is that the records of that alleged e...

Jesus for President

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Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw (henceforth C&H) are, from everything I can tell, two wonderful young men deeply committed to living as co...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Out of the Closet

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Confirming rumors that had circulated during the eighties, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledg...

A Man For All Seasons

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The actor who played Sir Thomas More in the 1966 Academy Award winning film A Man for All Seasons has passed away at 86. A Man for All Seas...

What Is Truth?

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This Good Friday offers an opportunity to reflect on Pilate's question to Jesus: What is truth? Jesus, you recall, had just told the Rom...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Astonishing Cephalopods

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My friend Justin sent along this wonderful video. Keep in mind as you watch it that despite any doubts you may have, these creatures evolved...

Most Hated Man in America

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Polls show John McCain in a statistical dead heat with either of the Democrat candidates. If the election were held today it would be a tie...

Damage Control

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Planned Parenthood of Idaho tries to control the damage from the hoax perpetrated upon them by a UCLA student newspaper called The Advocat...

Obama-sistible

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Somehow, I can't see John McCain inspiring a song like this, but who knows? AllahPundit at Hot Air , to whom we owe thanks for po...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Saddam's Terrorist Connections

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Well, this is odd. ABC is reporting that the Bush administration is trying to cover up a report released last week by the Pentagon on Iraq...

The Real Obama

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Barack Obama tried yesterday to dissociate himself from his pastor's hateful remarks without dissociating himself from his pastor. In ma...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Ugly American

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The Daily Kos is a major liberal web log, perhaps the biggest blog in the country in terms of traffic. Thus we can learn much about the lib...

Man in a Hole

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The Easter season seems a good time to note that courses in comparative religions sometimes go an entire semester without pointing out the e...

Second Amendment

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"Today the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the most significant gun-rights case of our lifetime," writes the Washington Time...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Moral Absolutes

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A former student taking a grad course in Old Testament ethics asks this question (slightly edited): What do you think about the idea of n...

Public Opinion of the War

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David Paul Kuhn has an interesting piece at Politico.com on public perception of the surge: American public support for the military eff...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Looking at the Veep

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Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard runs through all the potential Vice-Presidential picks on offer to McCain and concludes that his best pr...

Dispelling Darkness

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Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American psychologist speaks truth to power in this video of a "debate" with an Egyptian Islamist: Go h...

Remembering Sarah

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David Horowitz has written a beautiful and very moving eulogy for his daughter who passed away last week at the age of 44. Horowitz was a...

Lonesome Dove

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C.S. Lewis writes that man was created to be infinitely happy, and I believe this to be true, but I sometimes wonder whether happiness is re...