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Dividing Christ?
Near Emmaus put together a nice synopsis of recent articles regarding “liberal” and “conservative” Christianity in America. I found Ross Douthat’s piece in the New York Times to be a great read. As I have read the comments on Douthat’s page and other responses, what I have wondered about is just how far we will go as “labeled” Christians to hold…
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So, What Happens When You Take the Excuses Out of the Way?
This column by Frank Bruni is typical of how people burned by “religion” want to think of religion. Just as someone in that category would accuse those in “religion” to have their nice, neat categories… Bruni demonstrates his nice, neat categories as well. He isn’t a fan of Christianity. And he sets up the typical stereotypes. “How can someone who…
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The Rage Against Religion While Thinking You Are Spiritual
David Brooks is one of my favorite columnists. He hits it out of the ballpark again on THIS COLUMN. He took the viral video of the guy raging against religion and got into the why, and then the results of the video. Challenged with the exact words of the video, the young man actually realized he needed to learn to…
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Good News is I Don’t Have to be Shot… Yet
This article I posted yesterday started out with bad news. At my age, I’m just done. I have an obligation to fade into the sunset. So, I had some fun with that, even knowing the article had good news in the main piece. Here is the good news for us “geezers.” A recent study he wrote with Igor Grossmannon aging…
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The Loss of a Moral Compass
David Brooks’ column in The New York Times gives a synopsis of where we have come. Just yesterday in my Church History lecture I was talking with my students about the place tradition had in the Church for about 1700 years. While I will never argue that trusting tradition is always a good thing, I will say it is basically a good thing,…
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Blood Sport
I was reading a New York Times front page on the web when this picture and article came up. It was on the hockey player (presumably the one in the black jersey) talking about head trauma. Go figure. But that’s not what captured my attention. It was the kid on the right. The smile on his face watching two men…
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Learn from Failure
This column by David Brooks is tremendous. His columns are tremendous as a standard, in my book. As a culture, we have to come to a place individually where we admit our shortcomings and learn. Learn from FAILURE. But our culture has tried to shield us from failure. I am guilty of this as a parent. We all have our…
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Christianity that matters, part 2
Thinking over Ross Douthat’s column, I have been thinking over and over about the crisis of Christianity we need to have in our culture. We don’t want one. It’s here, but we don’t want to recognize it. It’s a lot like the economic crisis. We don’t want to deal with it. It’s like the environment. It’s like our crazy dependence…
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Christianity that matters
Ross Douthat has a marvelous column on the Christmas season and how Christianity is “doing.” Obviously, we are full of angst. That’s our main theme these days, it seems. The column is a good one and I am kind of setting this post as a “marker” to come back to when I have time. One thought from his column for…
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Leaks and Timing
The New York Times has returned to the glory days of journalism. They have to be as excited as the heady days of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers. They’re actually back to releasing truly bad news and casting bad lights on bad situations. They’ve released portions of thousands of pages of classified documents leaked to them about the situation in…
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