We are all ideologues to some degree
Andrew Sullivan, on the Octavia Nasr/Shirley Sherrod foofarahs: It seems completely obvious to me that the USDA needs to re-hire Sherrod just as CNN needs to rehire Octavia Nasr. Both were canned based...
View ArticleHere’s your chance to say goodbye
By week's end at the most, I'll be saying goodbye to Beliefnet and moving this blog over to Big Questions Online. When I make the announcement, I'll close all comments threads, because I won't be able...
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China is turning Christian
I saw recently a statistic saying that China today exports as much every six hours as it did in all of 1978, when Deng Xiaoping's revolutionary opening of China to the world started. Thirty years ago,...
View ArticleNon-bigots against gay marriage
I wrote earlier about how useful it is to humble yourself and try to see what the world looks like through the eyes of your opponents. Jonathan Rauch, the gay journalist and same-sex marriage backer,...
View ArticleSmart enough to work for Google?
Here are 15 questions Google asks potential employees. Can you answer them? They broke my dang head. ...Read the full post here »The post Smart enough to work for Google? appeared first on Rod Dreher.
View ArticleBad economy! Bad, bad economy!
Take this tour through some recent economic charts from the Federal Reserve to get a picture of how terrible our economy really is. Seriously, it's staggering stuff. ...Read the full post here »The...
View Article‘Rape by deception’? Huh?
The BBC this morning reported on a bizarre case in Israel of an Arab man convicted of "rape by deception," because he'd led the Jewish woman with whom he'd had consensual sex to believe he was Jewish....
View ArticleModern Calvinists
Wow, they don't make Presbyterians like they used to! ...Read the full post here »The post Modern Calvinists appeared first on Rod Dreher.
View ArticleWhy I became Orthodox
Wrapping up my four Beliefnet years, I was thinking about the posts that attracted the most attention and comment in that time. Without a doubt the most popular (in terms of attracting attention, not...
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Mommy explains her plastic surgery
In Dallas (naturally), a parenting magazine discusses how easy it is for mommies who don't like their post-child bodies to get surgery -- and to have it financed! -- to reverse the effects of time and...
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