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   Things to Do in Denver If You're Unborn "On the fiery issue of abortion, the Democratic Party has been taking small but notable steps to the right." What's that? "Whining" from the no-compromise left? Hardly. That's The Wall Street Journal's fine religion reporter Suzanne Sataline, reporting on the... [ Continue reading: ] Jonathan Edwards' Boogie Nights Jeff Sharlet: There aren't a lot of readers out there who'll be intrigued by the news that Library Journal's Nancy E. Adams considers my "evocation of the mood of theologian Jonathan Edwards’s work" in my recent book The Family "one of the most compelling this reviewer has ever read," but for a literary sinner in the hands of an angry God like me... [ Continue reading: ] Wayward Sheep Ashley Makar: I was late to my Egyptian baptism. Over twenty-four years and ten minutes late. It might have been my second rebirth by water. My dad—a Coptic Orthodox Christian by blood, a cut-throat pragmatic physician at heart—doesn't recall if I was baptized as a baby. All grown up, I helped myself to the blessings... [ Continue reading: ]  Obama and the Kings This essay from The Nation on "Obama and King" -- which would have been better titled "Obama and the Kings," as in Martin Luther King Jr. and Sr. -- is a week old but it's must reading in preparation for... [ Continue reading: ]  A Miraculous "Mémoire" ''If you read a lot of Holocaust literature, all survivor stories are miraculous," says Jane Daniel, publisher of yet another Holocaust memoir that turns out to be phony... [ Continue reading: ]  Tolerating Locke, Resurrecting Williams John Locke, the 17th century philosopher most commonly associated with the concept of tolerance, "argues from Protestant premises most of the time. He seems uninterested in finding arguments for toleration that all citizens can share." Contemporary philosopher Martha Nussbaum much prefers Roger Williams... [ Continue reading: ]  A Biology Teacher Evolves Why didn't anyone think of this before? NYT Pulitzer Prize winning science reporter Amy Harmon follows evolution into a Florida classroom... [ Continue reading: ]  NEW News The Network of Enlightened Women (NEW) "defines what conservatism is," a NEW leader tells Politico's Helena Andrews. Unfortunately, either NEW or Andrews is keeping it a secret -- this story on a possibly important movement of conservative college women provides... [ Continue reading: ]  Art News Meanwhile, news of why Chinese authorities arrested NYC graffitti artist James Powderly in Beijing: this electric banner. Brought to you by the religion reporters of Gawker.com. [ Continue reading: ] After Michael Phelps What are mainstream media's top three China talking points? 1. Good Olympics! Too bad about the little girl who sang the song. 2. Not so nice to the dissidents! 3. Hmm... there was something else, wasn't there? Oh, yeah -- Tibet! That darling Dalai Lama. He'll be back... [ Continue reading: ] The Church Press Brad Greenberg, author of the L.A. Jewish Journal's "God Blog," points us to Kathleen Parker's WaPo column in which she argues -- with no animosity toward Rick Warren -- that "tthe winner," of the Saddleback "debate" "was Warren, who has... [ Continue reading: ] Hertzberg's Warren No mainstream pundit has gotten Rick Warren's Saddleback forum for the candidates more wrong than The New Yorker's usually astute Hendrick Hertzberg. "With his genial personality," Hertzberg writes of Warren, "his emphasis on happiness over hellfire, and his instinct for... [ Continue reading: ]  FundamentaListing Revealer Kathryn Joyce is filling in for invaluable Sarah Posner while she's on vacation. Read Kathryn's special edition of the "FundamentaList" at The American Prospect -- prayers for rain, bountiful babies, pundits who can't tell their left from their right,... [ Continue reading: ] |