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 OrleansVoodoo 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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