Category: Orthodoxy

Tasty Tidbits 7/9/11

Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits. It got really long so I took some bigger-than-tidbit items away and will post separately, perhaps:

  1. From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin…
  2. The Unknowable God and the knowable Bugs Bunny.
  3. Pugnacious Pat misses one, but comes close.
  4. ‘Mendoucheous.”
  5. June job numbers and the optimist in hell.
  6. “Pomodoro”?!
  7. Priceless!
  8. We will raise, or smash, the debt ceiling.
  9. Masson graphically provides perspective.
  10. Does anybody actually work any more?
  11. “True Religion” lies like hell.
  12. Evernote.

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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):

  1. I’m ballast (but please don’t throw me over if it gets stormy).
  2. “… it’s probably you.”
  3. Cecilia Bartoli.
  4. Debut of the Journal of Christian Legal Thought.
  5. The Strong One(s).
  6. Three excellent AFR Podcasts.
  7. A perceptive Orthodox podcast on economics.
  8. A different take on Mormon electoral odds Continue reading “Tasty Tidbits 7/7/11” →

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” →

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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Tasty Tidbits 6/28/11

Here’s today’s tasty tidbits, concurrently Tweeted and Facebooked:

Sen. Lugar reportedly will unload on Obama today regarding Libya. Good for him! But the Hoosier blogosphere will be all atwitter with navel-gazing about how this is a “move to the right” to fight off challenger Richard Mourdock.

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Eureka! Why Voodoo (and some other things) creep me out

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on PBS Friday night had a non-judgmental story on a Voodoo priestess in New Orleans. Voodoo makes me queasy, and when that happens (which isn’t often) I want to know why. Do I deep down believe in Voodoo’s efficacy or something?

When I sat down to note my queasiness with voodoo in writing, I ended up with not only my answer, but an “Aha!” moment that helped me crack another nut I’d been working on.

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