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Category: Poverty

Gleanings, 12/30/15

Admissions “beyond the numbers”
Book list
Why would Richard Cory do such a thing?
2 signs of hope

Well. It looks as if I’ve mostly managed to free-associate off some Rod Dreher stuff, but it feels like time to publish the gleanings anyway.

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readerjohn Christianity generally, Education, Poetry, Poverty December 30, 2015 3 Minutes

October 1, 2015

Pope Francis versus the power elite
The invisible nation
A highly offensive, anti-American truth
Almost as bad as the previous one
Responding to rent-seeking
Bless their hearts, they just can’t help it
What rude beast?
Where is the map of the dark places?

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readerjohn Abortion distortion factor, Damn rackets, Ecclesiology, Economia, Empire, Faith & Ideology, Foreign Affairs, History, Intrigued, Jeremiad, Marriage (real), Plutocracy, Poetry, Political Matters, Poverty, Religious freedom, Roman Catholicism, The best lack all conviction, the worst are full of passionate intensity, Transvaluation of Values October 1, 2015 8 Minutes

Monday, 8/30/15

Don’t mystify the “sex industry”
What if Hillary implodes?
How NYT celebrates Sunday
Hatfield, McCoy, rattlesnakes, Republicans
Heaven & Hell

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readerjohn Consumerism, Damn rackets, Foreign Affairs, humanism, Political Matters, Poverty, progressivism, Sexualia, Sundry flakes August 31, 2015August 30, 2015 5 Minutes

Thursday, 3/19/15

An eerie phase of history
PCUSA: where orthodoxy is, for now, optional
In a laboratory of democracy
“The law of the land”? Really?
Supping with the Devil
Pro Tip for Lefties
Deja vu
Celebrity opinion

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readerjohn Christianity generally, irony, Justice, Legalia, Life political issues, Marriage (real), Moralistic therapeutic deism, Natural Law, Political Matters, Poverty, Protestantism, Religious freedom, Sexualia, war March 19, 2015March 18, 2015 7 Minutes

Saturday, 11/15/14

Who needs Church for cheezy uplift?
Transvaluation update
Liturgy as Anthropology
Prison or Stronghold?
Burn or bury?
How animus analysis works
Health-based echoes of Cambodia
Anna-Maria’s Deep Throat

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readerjohn "Spiritual" (maybe Religious), Arts and Music, Christianity generally, Discrimination, Education, Health care, History, Justice, Legalia, Marriage (real), Moralistic therapeutic deism, Naked Public Square, Orthopathos, Plutocracy, Political Matters, Poverty, progressivism, Rights Talk, Sexualia, Worship November 15, 2014 7 Minutes

Saturday, 10/4/14

Apple’s Edward Snowden tattoo
Shut up about being a burden. I love you.
Lest we forget at the Synod On the Family
Breaching the Warranty of Whiteness
Missionary Medicine
Palpable Holiness
Reader’s Racket Awards
Reflecting, briefly, on blog changes

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readerjohn Damn rackets, Family, Feminism, Health care, humanism, Legalia, Life political issues, Parachurch, Poverty, progressivism, Religiopreneurs, Rights Talk, Technology, the worst are full of passionate intensity October 4, 2014October 4, 2014 10 Minutes

Friday, 9/19/14

Palestinian Christians, all the way back
Whittaker Chambers explains the fall of Rome
Religious Freedom, Indivisible
Intrepid Journalist in the cesspool
Miley, Nicki and the NFL
Too small for a republic, too big for an asylum

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readerjohn Glamour, History, Journalism, Orthodoxy, Poverty, Religious freedom, Sexualia, Sport September 19, 2014September 18, 2014 7 Minutes

Monday 8/18/14

Against Obsessive Sexuality
SPLC does something unexpected
The tone-deaf Cardinal
Steyn on Police Lethal Force
Not a real sabbatical

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readerjohn Political Matters, Poverty, progressivism, Roman Catholicism, Sexualia August 18, 2014August 17, 2014 5 Minutes

Sunday, 8/3/14

Is religion anti-social?
A notable 50th anniversary
The social uses of neurosis

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readerjohn Economia, Family, Fasting, Health Care, History, Islam, Literature, Orthodoxy, Poetry, Poverty, Religious freedom, Science August 3, 2014August 3, 2014 7 Minutes

Friday, 5/9/14

Life is messy
The Psychology of God?
Common Core
Who cares what the Church “stands for”?
Great in the Hamptons, but will it play in Watts?
We got Bin Laden, but missed polio
Can real diversity be constitutional?

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readerjohn Christianity generally, Damn rackets, Education, Justice, Legalia, Marriage (real), Orthodoxy, Plutocracy, Poverty May 9, 2014May 8, 2014 4 Minutes

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