Category: Journalism

Wednesday, 9/9/15

  1. Four Anti-Party Men
  2. A new moralistic agenda
  3. Conservative flippancy
  4. Overwhelming volume of religions news
  5. Recanting (more or less) on Kim Davis
  6. Editing error or errant assumption?
  7. Humanism phobia

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Tuesday, 9/8/15

  1. Kim Davis fatigue
  2. Fox News Conservatism
  3. A nation buried within another
  4. Ted Cruz lie update
  5. How best to do charity
  6. Define “evangelical,” please
  7. Evangelical modernists (but I repeat myself)
  8. What the Monday holiday was all about

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First Things Dump (with bonus track)

I’ve read the new First Things. That means the old one should be entirely up online now.

Let’s see, now …

Yup. Time for a First Things dump. (Items 5 though 8 may not yet be available if you’re not a subscriber; they’re from the current issue.)

  1. Our Carrie Nation
  2. The Metaphysical Revolution
  3. Speaking of Hysteria
  4. The Power Elite
  5. Protestant, Catholic, Jew
  6. The Americanization of ­Christianity
  7. Facing the Unborn
  8. Is the Para male or female?
  9. Bonus track

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Saturday, 7/18/15

  1. Today’s top heresies
  2. More blameworthy than honest dissent
  3. Heavy and selective editing
  4. Homogeneity reduces dissent
  5. More like a pinball than an arrow

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Saturday, 7/11/15

  1. NYT gets in front of the pitch-forked crowd
  2. America’s secession of the heart
  3. Equivocal “dignity”
  4. Benedict and his critics
  5. Theology’s so formulaic, even an atheist could do it
  6. Giving Kennedy his due
  7. While America burns
  8. Bad spiritual biolgraphies

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