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Category: Moralistic therapeutic deism

Sunday, 12/8/13

IndigNation theater
Mandela as litmus test
Woohoo! Distributism in America!

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Friday Full House, 11/22/13

The Cheney Kerfuffle
Modern Ecclesial Miracle
The sorry saga of John Freshwater
Critics and kindred slackers
Low-down liars
Where are the successors?
An oddly familiar myth
You don’t see this every day

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Sunday 11/10/13

Poised between excellent and creepy
The Mooshy-Gooshy “Higher Law”
The offense of the Eucharist
War of the Worlds redux
How do you measure?

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Tuesday, 10/8/13

Olden Day Politics
Unbearable Radio
“Repent and be baptized” is so passé!
Naked public square gets nakeder
The South isn’t entirely homogenous
Olden Day Evangelical Publishing

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Thursday, 9/26/13

“I always knew the questions in advance.”
Extreme Investing
Liverpool Football Attractions
Inward focus at the Sunday Morning Show
The Coca-Cola Explosion
God ≠ Man in a Louder Voice
Melt-down Forecast
[Crickets Chirping]

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Saturday, September 14, 2013

The Socrates of Manhattan
Daniel Brewington: threat or menace?
Equivocation 1
Equivocation 2
I did a bad – two bads

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readerjohn Civil Religion, eulogy, Evangelicalism, Legalia, Moralistic therapeutic deism, Scientism, Speech & Press September 14, 2013September 13, 2013 8 Minutes

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Horns of an Egyptian Dilemma
Bullshit Jobs
You don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone
Ironic twists then and now
Why Hillary shouldn’t be President
Why Chris Christie shouldn’t be President
Why come out?
Apostolic Church

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readerjohn Christianity generally, Economia, Empire, History, Islam, Moralistic therapeutic deism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism August 22, 2013 6 Minutes

What Sunday IS this?

Today is variously Pulpit Freedom Sunday 2013 or, in relevant contrast, the 6th Sunday of Pascha, the “Sunday of the Blind Man.” Continue reading “What Sunday IS this?” →

readerjohn Christianity generally, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Moralistic therapeutic deism, Orthodoxy, Political Matters, Religious freedom, Roman Catholicism, Speech & Press June 9, 2013June 8, 2013 3 Minutes

Excited utterances

Pride cometh before a fall
Cheap substitutes
Theocrat Singapore?
Pro Tip
Rehab or the slammer?
Dead men live

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readerjohn "Spiritual" (maybe Religious), Empire, Faith & Ideology, History, Legalia, Moralistic therapeutic deism, Sexualia 1 Comment April 12, 2013April 11, 2013 2 Minutes

Potpourri for the first day of Spring

MTD in Atlanta
A Not Going Home Again story
Wendell and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
The Return of Mark Sanford

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readerjohn Moralistic therapeutic deism, Natural Law, Nominalism and Realism, Political Matters, Sexualia March 20, 2013 7 Minutes

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