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The crooked-timber school of character
The Road to Character is a book that needs to be nearby in the coming months. It should be an ongoing conversation. Brooks has a website where the conversation can hopefully keep going on this subject. What I am impressed about with Brooks is that over the past few months I have noticed a decided change in his columns at The New…
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The moral conversation
David Brooks hits the moral conversation issue hard again. Where do we find the answers to the great questions we have, such as, “What is the purpose of my life?” We still ask those kinds of things, but where are the voices that can help guide the answers? Public conversation doesn’t want a moral voice any long. We want political…
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Morning joe
Some fun humor to start the day. Political humor: If 67-year-old rural white men were the future of the electorate, the G.O.P. would be rolling. — David Brooks, New York Times (Of course, there is a group this will NOT find this funny…) And some morning joe humor:
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Jews go away!
Jeffrey Goldberg asks the question, “Is it time for Jews to leave Europe?” Somehow that is seen as an “intelligent” question. David Brooks has a more thoughtful response to the rising anti-Semitism brewing once again in Europe. Thousands of Jews a year are just fleeing Europe. But the best response is quarantine and confrontation. European governments can demonstrate solidarity with their…
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The moral voice
David Brooks continues to be one of my favorite columnists in a the dying industry of journalism. In the past few years he has done more to raise solid moral questions for the culture and he does it without a shrill voice. (Shrill would describe a lot of the comments he gets in the “comments” section below his columns.) THIS…
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Love your enemies… really
I have long been a fan of the columnist David Brooks and this piece may be one of his finest. I know it is refreshing to my thinking right now regarding ISIS. When I read “conservative” Christians respond to ISIS and the beheadings, the first thing I often hear is how evil Islam is… and the corollary that goes unsaid…
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How we view government
A column by David Brooks had a great quote on how partisans often view our government from the inside: Right now there is bipartisan inconsistency over the effectiveness of government. Republicans think government is a bumbling tool at home but a magnificent instrument abroad. Democrats think government is a magnificent instrument at home but a bumbling tool abroad. In reality,…
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The Kingdom of God and severe reactions
It’s a bit of an odd world when, in the past few weeks, we’ve had some deep American need to “defend free speech” by going to see a very stupid movie about North Korea. And now, it’s everyone claiming, “I am Charlie Hebdo” in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris on a satirical newspaper. We’re defending the right to…
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The disgusting attributes of “party line”
David Brooks hits this one out of the ballpark. I find more people involved in politics who REALLY say, “Well, if (name the other party) wasn’t in control, we could get more done.” (All while their political ads tout their ability to “cross party lines.”) Even in the church, it’s easier to define who we are by party affiliation, or…
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