* Temporarily renamed in honor of the Nativity Fast, about which Mystagogy has some more information.
Category: Religious freedom
Tasty Tidbits 11/9/11
- JHK’s four-step plan for America.
- Enemies within.
- Better to fall apart?
- A Bureaucratic mind looks at TBTF.
- Joe Frazier.
Fish’s Formulation Foot-Faults
The New York Times’ Stanley Fish also takes up the Hosanna-Tabor case, argued last week in the Supreme Court, and disappoints in doing so.
It’s not so much that he gets the answer wrong – I’m not sure he does, because I’m not sure what his answer is – as that he falls for sloppy formulation of the question and in so doing misinforms and muddies the water. Continue reading “Fish’s Formulation Foot-Faults”
Tasty Tidbits 10/18/11
- Cellar Dwellers.
- Collective Decision-Paralysis.
- Bad theology and bad politics.
- School Reform and Class Warfare.
- Malevolent immortals.
- Cutting to the Chase.
Tasty Tidbits 10/15/11
- Occupying Lafayette.
- A Secular Case for Distributism.
- “Screw each other and everybody gets rich.”
- Bishop and Diocese Indicted for not reporting child abuse suspicions.
- T o w e r o f B a b e l.
- More Anti-Mormon Extralegal Religious Tests.
- Ron Paul’s pro-life ad (and cagey substance).
- St. Basil on Theft.
Tasty Tidbits 10/13/11
- Obama Administration execrable on religious freedom.
- Tea Party/Occupy Wall Street Venn Diagram.
- Elizabeth Warren again.
- Religious tests for the Presidency.
- Waging Class Warfare.
- Knowing the Beautiful God.
Tasty Bonus 10/11/11
- The blind dissing the blind.
- Socialism, Capitalism, Distributism.
- Cut federal budget by 2/3?
- Buttoned-down radicals
- The other anti-Mormon bigotry.
Tasty Tidbits 10/11/11
- On naming cats or something.
- Julia Roberts eats pasta.
- The silver lining of the Arab dictator cloud.
- The rigged system doesn’t like being called “rigged.”
- Love ya, idiot!
- Mormon Mitt and American Exceptionalism.
- Mystical
- Paradigm shifting.
- Wisdom from St. Wendell of Port Royal.
Tasty Tidbits 10/10/11
- Trendier than Thou; less devout, too.
- Beauty makes a comeback?
- Nicholas Kristof is not just another limousine liberal.
- OWS gets its sea legs, at least a little.
- New blog discovery.
- Another poem touching on aging.
- How extensive is the state’s imperial reach.
- On writing.
¿Que est lo mas auténtico?
The Pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, Dr. Robert Jeffress, effusively introduced Rick Perry to the “Values Voter Summit” Friday, departing from his prepared script to add the adjective “genuine” to “follower of Jesus Christ” to describe Perry. Asked afterward if “genuine” was a swipe at Mormon Mitt, Pastor Jeffress, in a a burst of candor, called Mormonism “a cult.”
Let the dialog begin! Continue reading “¿Que est lo mas auténtico?”
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