Monthly Archives: December 2008

According to Wall Street Journal blogger James Taranto, living in modern America, with its easy-going, good-natured inclusiveness, while also believing that your office-mate–who stayed up all night finishing your sales report so you could nurse your sick child–will burn in … Continue reading →

Possibly the most annoying explanation for Western Europe’s ‘birth dearth’ is the claim that it is the product of some sort of profound spiritual malaise. Allegedly doomed by their secularism to an endless arid despair, Europeans are, it is sometimes … Continue reading →

From his blog: Firing off his cap pistol in the enfeebled War against the War on Christmas, Jay Nordlinger, sounding like one of Cal Thomas’s old cardigan sweaters, simpers, “Two seconds ago, ‘Merry Christmas’ was about the warmest, nicest, most … Continue reading →

Just checking in here. Poor Bradlaugh is in total lockdown under drop-dead date for delivery of book manuscript to publisher, Jan. 5th. Blogging activities & all other, except biological essentials, suspended for duration … However the pagan deities must be served. … Continue reading →

From two New York Times articles on the Bernard Madoff fraud: As it does each day, the Yeshiva [University] community has turned to religion for strength, and to help shepherd it through a crisis Rabbi Shalom Carmy, chairman of the … Continue reading →

The press’s animosity towards religious belief is a fundamental tenet of the religious conservative movement. “We’ve seen what we feel is a clear rise in hostility [to religion] among our institutions — political institutions and media institutions,” Craig Parshall of … Continue reading →

Heather, I’m not at all surprised by the phenomenon that you see either as ‘dissonance’ or an ‘unconscious’ mitigation of an older, sterner rule book. Think of (many) religions as being, in some ways, like the US constitution. There are … Continue reading →