- The Great Divide.
- The Perfect Job.
- St. Francis and the OWS folks.
- Jack Chick’s new gig.
- Right Populist Mummery.
- Seven Days in Utopia.
- Good news?
- Blogging forecast.
Category: Religious freedom
Tasty Tidbits 10/5/11
- Increase your word power: Hydra-headed.
- Occupy Wall Street runs an agenda up the flagpole.
- What’s in a name?
- Atheist/Fundamentalist symbiosis.
- Slippery slope report on marriage.
- Coverdale Psalms.
- Thanks! I needed that.
- And I need this, too.
Religious Tidbits 10/1/11
- Praying the gay away.
- Divided by a common faith.
- Dispensational Eschatology 101
- Is Jesus religious enough for the HHS religious exemption?
Tasty Tidbits 10/1/11
- Sunset at the North Pole
- On Rich People “Giving Back.”
- For sale: eyes, ears, wallet: contact Google for details.
- Where everyone knows your name.
- Jesus flunks the religious test; Good Samaritan, too.
- God bless the 5th Amendment.
Tasty Tidbits 9/21/11
- DADT.
- Not repeating, but rhyming.
- What relevance repugnance?
- Up-to-date ancients.
- Greece vs. America.
- Georgia’s gonna kill some guy who may not be guilty. (Yawn!)
- Diversity and diversity.
- Constitution Day.
- How’s he doing with Louis Farrakhan?
- Wimps.
Tasty Tidbits 9/19/11
- Undue Purversity in Madison.
- Spiritual but not Religious?
- Educating for competitiveness or civic virtue?
- Entitlementationism.
- Schadenfreude.
- Google does it again.
- Nonsense.
SSM vs. B&B
I think this is more than a tidbit, so I’m giving it its own moment in the sun.
Todd and Mark Wathen, a same-sex couple in central Illinois, wanted a civil union ceremony somewhere quaint. They contacted a couple of Bed & Breakfasts, and were rebuffed. One rebuff in particular was pretty explicit: Continue reading “SSM vs. B&B”
Dropping back into the Culture Wars
[12/25/11. I can’t believe I wrote this a scant 3 months ago. That issue of Touchtone did a real Huey Long on me, I guess. I leave it here as standing proof that I’m sensitively dependent on initial conditions. Tipsy]
Having announced my withdrawal from the Culture Wars 18 months ago (I actually dropped out before I blogged it), I’m now on the brink of repenting and dropping back in.
What has shaken me up is a feature in Touchstone Magazine‘s 25th anniversary edition, The French Connection, which likens America today not to 1916 Tsarist Russia, but to pre-1789 France. Continue reading “Dropping back into the Culture Wars”
Tasty Tidbits 8/26/11
- War in Illinois
- War on the family farm.
- War on Evangelicals.
- War on Marriage at Slate.
- Are Evangelicals “Conservative”?
- Polling sensationalism instead of sobriety.
- Another WaPo columnist gets the vapors.
- Walking.
- Repentance.
Tasty Tidbits 8/21/11
- So: The President walks into 5 bars …
- David Barton’s slip is showing.
- Read ’em and weep.
- R.I.P.
- Guilty! (Do we need any evidence?)
- Listen and smile.
- Doppelgänger alert.
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 