I was a little disappointed by my visit. Perhaps because I did it so quickly. 90% of the material there could have just as easily been viewed online. Very little artifact-based material, almost all text or video.
Perhaps there is something to be said about immersing oneself in a set [...]
and why the church does not know how to respond:
The interview is long, and they spend almost the whole time dancing around the issue.
Jen finally hits the nail on the head in the last video around the 4-5 minute mark. She says (paraphrased), “You want that teenage girl in your church struggling with feelings of [...]
Suppose illegal immigrants were not to be tracked by the government and sent home. Suppose they were all granted full citizenship. What would happen next?
Suppose there were more free and open competition for jobs in America, with applicants from around the world challenging each of us for our positions, [...]
It is coming time for Christians to harbor innocents being persecuted by the state, at risk of their own liberty.
If there is an economist reading this I challenge you to provide economic justification for anti-immigrant laws. As a graduate student in economics, as far as I know, there are none.
To [...]
Diana Butler Bass is all emotional over sport today.
April 5 was a remarkable day for sports — especially sports and religion. With baseball’s opening day, Tiger Woods’ spiritual transformation, and the miraculous NCAA championship game, one only needed to watch American sports to see that the national soul [...]
Sojo blog has an article about the West Virginia mine accident this week. The author, Rose Marie Berger, takes aim, as many others do, at the mine owner, Massey Energy.
Already outrage is focused on Massey Energy, owner of the Upper Big Branch mine. Massey has a history of negligence, and Upper Big Branch [...]
Wikileaks has a very suggestive interpretation of the event surrounding the video they are showing. I sympathize with it.
Pajamas Media has another interpretation. (Gavel bang to Adam Gurri) It is a war. People die. The soldiers followed protocol.
I posted on the Pajamas site, and provided my email address to their readers.
In this post I tried [...]
This week on NPR’s Car Talk Andy called to get the Tappit Brothers’ advice on buying a new “fun” car, and he was thinking about a Volvo V70-R. Click said, “It’s not a good idea, you will kill yourself. I have a theory about cars like Volvos and other cars that have this reputation for [...]
But it doesn’t really matter because I’m in grad school.
From Jeff:
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