First, there’s an interesting discussion taking shape on Gideon’s site. When he orginally posed his question about virtue and state, I had started to respond to it here, but couldn’t quite get my thoughts in order. This discussion should help. Also, Fr. Jape has two interesting posts that are worth reading. Also, of local interest, […]

Posted on December 2nd, 2004 by admin
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Fr Jape has another tirade against the criticism of single issue voters (SIVs). At first, I was a bit upset, and went so far as to write a quick entry at my in-laws house right after Thanksgiving lunch. But then I thought I wasn’t really understanding the issue well enough. Perhaps I was being to […]

Posted on November 26th, 2004 by admin
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There’s an interesting disucssion taking shape on Gideon Strauss’ site about urban renewal and the Church’s place in it. I’m intrigued. I’d like to address a couple of other posts Gideon included. First, one from Jon Barlow: There are some beautiful old churches in the city of St. Louis that are just waiting for some […]

Posted on November 19th, 2004 by admin
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I’ve modified the Theocracy, the Religious Right, and the Rest of Us (see Gideon…permalinks!). My friend Joshua pointed out some faulty logic in my discussion of gay rights and employee rights. It seems some part of my brain went on holiday briefly, as re-reading the section, I have no idea what my point was, as […]

Posted on November 17th, 2004 by admin
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or at least I think so. This post is well worth reading. I nearly fell out of my chair when I read this: First: there are, there have always been, there will always be, Christians whose beliefs lead them to be social conservatives and economic progressives. (For evidence, look here and here.) We exist, and […]

Posted on November 17th, 2004 by admin
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Have you heard of Bob Riley, governor of Alabama? If you haven’t, and you’re not entirely happy with the attitude of the Religious Right (or the Moral Majority, or whatever they’re called today), look him up. I may not completely agree with his stance on every issue, but he’s showing a great deal of “progressive” […]

Posted on November 17th, 2004 by admin
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Many, many thoughts have been percolating, and I’m going to try and get at least a few of them out there on the table, perhaps to be developed further at some point. First, I came across this on Salon, and thought this quote was rather telling: Because Bush and his fundamentalist backers lack a knowledge […]

Posted on November 17th, 2004 by admin
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First, Keith has posted a response from Eric Miller about his article in the Post-Gazette. That got me thinking, as did a lunchtime discussion we had at the office. And it got me reading. So I read this article on Christian Counterculture. This really hit home: Instead of crusading and picketing against all of the […]

Posted on November 11th, 2004 by admin
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Philadelphia School District to sell naming rights for new school for $5 million. I’ll just leave it at that.

Posted on November 11th, 2004 by admin
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I was going to talk about Eric Miller’s article regarding his choice for president, but Keith has already commented on that, and, for the most part, I agree with him. Eli passed this along to me this morning, and it’s pretty interesting. I think what I really want to talk about is the “cultural war” […]

Posted on November 10th, 2004 by admin
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