Tipsy Teetotaler’s Tasty Tidbits 7/4/11

Here’s Tipsy Teetotaler’s Tasty Tidbits for the day:

  1. Rights Talk in America.
  2. Neither Red nor Blue (nor White)
  3. Apostasy in Islamdom.
  4. Apostasy (from liberal orthodoxy) in Moscow.
  5. What’s next for marriage? (Sigh!)
  6. The non-story that keeps on giving.
  7. Would this needlework be intelligible today?
  8. 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:

  1. Islam as Protestant or Jewish.
  2. SSM was just a decoy for the real radical agenda.
  3. Euphemism alert.
  4. CAFOs for homo sapiens.
  5. Local boy makes good, Purdue girl makes history.
  6. Indiana Supreme Court (ouch!) in the news again.
  7. Who owns the 21st Century?
  8. I have no need of that hypothesis.
  9. What’s Hell like, dear skull?

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Tasty Tidbits 7/1/11

Here’s today’s tasty tidbits:

  1. Evangelicals lose political influence; should they thank God for that?
  2. McCarthyism in the darndest places
  3. The cost of freedom?
  4. Why should the Scots have had so many good preachers?
  5. An un-Reformed clergyman addresses a once-Reformed denomination.
  6. Bereft!
  7. OCD Strikes AmConMag.
  8. Is the root of the problem something other than Islam itself?
  9. Near miss?
  10. Disneyfication provokes cyber-attack.

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TJ’s Excellent 15 Minutes of Fame

Michael Gerson at the Washington Post has an Op-Ed on — how best to put it? — the insanity of “Pastor” Terry Jones getting his 15 minutes of fame so cheaply.

Gerson is, if I recall correctly, an Evangelical Protestant — perhaps even a Wheaton College Evangelical — so it was interesting to see his spin on why Muslims go postal at a threatened Koran-burning while Christians (a far more equivocal term than you might think, but serviceable in this context) remain pretty mellow about sacrilege Continue reading “TJ’s Excellent 15 Minutes of Fame”