The drama that is taking place this week behind closed doors in Tanzania has created a real guessing game in the Anglican Communion. While we wait for the results--assuming there are meaningful results--let's think for a moment about an obvious question: how has liberal "Christianity" held on as long as it has? Everyone knows that …
Rudy Giuliani and the Dilemma of Christian Conservatives
It's no real surpise that Rudy Giuliani is running for President. The surprise comes in how well he does in polls of Republicans. The apparent attempt of the party's higher echelons to "crown" John McCain early and avoid a hard primary/caucus season is not going as well as planned. What your opinion of this depends …
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Just for Procreation: It Wasn’t Our Idea to Start With
We cannot resist saying something about Washington state's "Defence of Marriage Alliance" and their petition to require hetrosexual couples to have children within three years after marriage or be subject to annulment. To start with, we never based our opposition to gay marriage solely on the ability of heterosexual couples to procreate. Our idea of …
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They Didn’t Like Cole Porter’s Jazz and Negroes Either
The recent story about the woes that Christliche Gemeinde Köln has had with the German government brings up a lot deeper memories than just of a Christian church under persecution of a godless government (although this certainly is a problem here.) It is worth noting that modernity--the thing that comes before post-modernity everybody talks about …
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Making a Dangerous Assumption
Dick Morris informs us of the following: “Hillary will be the next president, and she’ll be the worst president we’ve ever seen.” No matter what happens, the situation in Iraq will “assure that the GOP gets massacred in 2008 congressional elections.” In 2010, the Republicans will take back the Congress — “Hillary will give Republicans …
Nothing New Under the Sun: A Look at Current Events From the Past
There's a good deal going on these days, and we're tempted to comment on a lot of it. Problem is, we already have in many cases. So, just to make sure you know we haven't fallen asleep at the switch--or for those who didn't read it the first time--our idea is as follows: Barack Obama's …
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Racial Attitudes: They Just Don’t Happen
The decidedly trashy outbursts--and frankly I can't think of another word to describe them--that some Brits have blurted out on their reality shows about non-white people are illuminating in two respects. First, it should put paid to the idea that Europeans are innately more "enlightened" on issues of race or any of the other politically …
Campaign 2008: Where It Ends Depends on Where the Candidates Started
The 2008 Presidential campaign has been underway since 2004, but only now has the list of candiates begun to congeal. So how to winnow things down? We've griped about the fact that Ronald Reagan was the last President that wasn't a product of an Ivy League school, either as an undergraduate, a graduate, or both. …
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It’s Not About Freedom Any More
The rather plaintive letter from the Rev. Mark Lawrence trying to explain why his departure from California to take his post as the new Bishop of South Carolina is being delayed is a sad commentary both on TEC and the left-wing boomers that presently dominate its leadership. His explanation of the process is about as …
More Troops in Iraq? For What?
There are three good reasons why increasing troop strength in Iraq is counterproductive for U.S. interest, to say nothing of anyone else's. The first is the current nature of the U.S. military. After the end of the Cold War, structural changes took place to make the U.S. military more flexible for smaller threats in more …
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