Today is the Feast of Transfiguration in Orthodox Christianity. In Roman Catholicism and much other historically-rooted Christianity, too. But I venture a guess that there’s no Holy Transfiguration Southern Baptist Church anywhere in the world. Continue reading “Evangelicals and Mormons (lumped) Together”
Category: History
Tasty Tidbits 8/4/11
- Dust Furniture
- Super coup.
- What we can learn from American Muslims.
- Where are the religious progressives?
- If we were all terrorists ….
- Weapons in the hands of the righteous.
- Patent trolls.
- Lauren Ambrose does not strike me as the new Streisand.
- Why do Russians hate ice?
Tasty Tidbits 7/16/11
Here’s some Tasty Tidbits du jour:
- Morality as heresy?!
- Sola Potatoes.
- The invisible elephant in the room.
- There oughta be a(nother) law.
- “This is a nation where no lovely thing can last.”
- Cat fight coming?
- The rehabilitation of Rupert.
- Keep your eye on SSRN, and don’t be put off by the homely exterior
Tasty Tidbits 7/15/11
Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits I’ve thought worth memorializing:
- Chaconne Klaverenga leaves the nest.
- Boy! Am I glad I proofread that one!
- National debt as a moral issue.
- History should be honest, so let’s gin up some stories about an oppressed minority.
- A little Harry Potter history.
- Consider the case of poor Caleb Warner.
- Obama lied.
- Maybe the phrase “one flesh” is way truer than the hookup culture imagines.
- Monkey copyrights?
- A testy tidbit among the tasties.
- Another lyrical interlude with Brother Bruce.
Tasty Tidbits 7/13/11
- Anyone want to make any snide comments about the “slippery slope”
- “So this stupid, subhuman homeless person walks into a newspaper story and says ….”
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cracker.
- Newt the Constitutional Scholar.
- Pandora gets — Holy smokes! Wouldja look at that! — a facelift.
- I do so wish that some GOP hopeful for 2012 would not race to the lunatic fringe.
- Can the study of history heal the culture wars?
- Souls experience strange things, apparently, when exiled from the body.
- “One of the Best Ones” is one of his best ones.
Tasty Tidbits 7/12/11
Today’s Tidbits:
- You know it was a great vacation when …
- Pro Urbanism, Anti-sprawl.
- If there’s no solution, there’s no problem.
- Messages from beyond the grave.
- The Faith Never Delivered to the Saints.
Tasty Tidbits 7/7/11
Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits I’ve thought worth memorializing. Orthodoxen in particular might want to read item 6, which links to a post at the Orthodoxy at Purdue blog (which also appears on the St. Alexis website’s homepage):
- I’m ballast (but please don’t throw me over if it gets stormy).
- “… it’s probably you.”
- Cecilia Bartoli.
- Debut of the Journal of Christian Legal Thought.
- The Strong One(s).
- Three excellent AFR Podcasts.
- A perceptive Orthodox podcast on economics.
- A different take on Mormon electoral odds Continue reading “Tasty Tidbits 7/7/11”
Tasty Tidbits 7/5/11
Here’s some Tasty Tidbits for the day:
- Conservative conservatism calls out liberal conservatism.
- Crony capitalism and the complicit commentariat.
- James Howard Kunstler’s birthday card to America.
- Are we really free?
- John’s Curmudgeonly thoughts on our history.
- Who’s really totalitarian?
- Are we “defining” or “banning”?
- What does barbecue tell us about race?
Tipsy Teetotaler’s Tasty Tidbits 7/4/11
Here’s Tipsy Teetotaler’s Tasty Tidbits for the day:
- Rights Talk in America.
- Neither Red nor Blue (nor White)
- Apostasy in Islamdom.
- Apostasy (from liberal orthodoxy) in Moscow.
- What’s next for marriage? (Sigh!)
- The non-story that keeps on giving.
- Would this needlework be intelligible today?
- A glimpse into the American Soul — and into a Christian soul. Continue reading “Tipsy Teetotaler’s Tasty Tidbits 7/4/11”
Tipsy Teetotaler’s Tasty Tidbits 7/2/11
Here’s today’s tasty tidbits:
- Islam as Protestant or Jewish.
- SSM was just a decoy for the real radical agenda.
- Euphemism alert.
- CAFOs for homo sapiens.
- Local boy makes good, Purdue girl makes history.
- Indiana Supreme Court (ouch!) in the news again.
- Who owns the 21st Century?
- I have no need of that hypothesis.
- What’s Hell like, dear skull?
