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Potpourri 6/22/16

  1. Non-servile ≠ Complicit in murder
  2. How to become an Imam
  3. The project of modernity
  4. De pathos non est disputandum
  5. Conservatism at a Crossroad
  6. Can the Religious Right really be that servile?

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readerjohn Civil Religion, Consumerism, Economia, Evangelicalism, Foreign Affairs, Islam, liberalism, Naked Emperors, Orthodoxy, Rhetorical fallacies, Roman Catholicism, Thrown down gauntlet June 22, 2016June 21, 2016 7 Minutes

Tuesday, 4/26/16

  1. Narratives, true and false
  2. Flashback to a praise song
  3. Things Bonhoeffer never said
  4. Epiphany (but not conversion)
  5. Frank & Bart do Lesbos
  6. No limits?

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readerjohn Arts and Music, Corporatism, Damn rackets, Empire, Foreign Affairs, Journalism, Literature, Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Small is Beautiful, war, Worship April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 4 Minutes

Friday, 4/22/16

  1. Just who is “electing Hillary”?
  2. Tying up my loose end
  3. A new alliance
  4. Deja Vu Educational Horror House
  5. 140-character Cad
  6. Tone-deaf as a post
  7. Better Booknotes
  8. Naked Emperors

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readerjohn Education, Empire, Faith & Ideology, Foreign Affairs, Orthodoxy, Russia, Sexualia, war April 22, 2016April 22, 2016 5 Minutes

Friday, 4/15/16 – item 3 updated

  1. Refections on the Vietnam Memorial
  2. Überbuff (if only in his own mind)
  3. Making enemies superfluous

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readerjohn Faith & Ideology, Foreign Affairs, Journalism, Orthodoxy, Sexualia, war April 15, 2016April 16, 2016 4 Minutes

No April Foolery

  1. Faking it
  2. Intellectual and moral poverty
  3. Clickbait traditionalism
  4. Stable consensus now up for grabs
  5. Nothing to see here #1
  6. Nothing to see here #2
  7. Expecting more than God expects

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readerjohn 9th Commandment Watch, conservatism, Foreign Affairs, Gaying away the Pray, Internet, Islam, Life political issues, Marriage (real), Prayer, Religious freedom, Roman Catholicism, Sexualia April 1, 2016 5 Minutes

Tuesday, 3/29/16

  1. Dear NCAA
  2. Getting all sophisticated
  3. Simple prayer and spiritual narcissism
  4. Survival odds
  5. What doesn’t kill you

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readerjohn 9th Commandment Watch, Discrimination, Foreign Affairs, Literature, Naked Public Square, Political Matters, Prayer, Religious freedom, Sport, Sundry flakes March 28, 2016March 29, 2016 3 Minutes

Friday 2/19/16

  1. My cringer broke
  2. Pope and Trump
  3. Ted Cruz, drunken sailor
  4. Thursday’s most under-reported story
  5. Signs and wonders in the heavens
  6. Red, White, Blue and Bankrupt
  7. A guy can dream, can’t he?

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readerjohn 9th Commandment Watch, Capitalism, Christianity generally, Damn rackets, Economia, Foreign Affairs, Glamour, Legalia, Political Matters, Sexualia, State capitalism, war February 19, 2016 4 Minutes

Tuesday, 2/16/16

  1. We report, you yawn
  2. Fact not quite stranger than fiction
  3. Abstinence: Threat or Menace?
  4. Trump’s Justices
  5. Scalia Fatigue

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readerjohn 9th Commandment Watch, Abortion distortion factor, Foreign Affairs, Justice, Legalia, Literature, Sexualia, Sundry flakes, war February 16, 2016 5 Minutes

Friday, 2/12/16

  1. Tucker Carlson on Trump
  2. How to make a liberal
  3. The good old days
  4. Fallows vs. Kunstler
  5. Scott McConnell on Kasich

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readerjohn conservatism, Foreign Affairs, History, liberalism, progressivism, war February 12, 2016February 11, 2016 7 Minutes

Thursday, 2/4/16

  1. In your own backyard
  2. Required reading
  3. The real-world context for effective policy
  4. American military power
  5. Not your usual pundit

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readerjohn Christianity generally, Economia, Education, Evangelicalism, Foreign Affairs, Journalism, Orthodoxy, Political Matters, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, war February 4, 2016February 3, 2016 5 Minutes

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