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I haven't written anything on the recent decision by the California Supreme Court to overturn the ban on homosexual marriage in large part because I haven't
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This is the day whereupon we remember those who have given their lives in service for our country and offer our thanks to those who are currently serving. I remember
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Via Rod Dreher comes this piece by Fr. Dwight Longenecker, who writes: Tolkien disliked allegory so intensely because he felt it was too didactic. It leaves no possibility that any
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Stephen Pinker's diatribe (an appropriate word, I think) has prompted a fair number of responses from some pretty intelligent folks around the blogosphere. The assumption implicit in my
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In honor of Matt’s thought-provoking post last week (how could it be otherwise, with needling statements like, “Husbands and Wives Can’t be Friends!” or eye-stopping suggestions
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Alfred North Whitehead once said, "Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.” How do I know? I know Whitehead said this because
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(Hasty posting does not a good blogger make. Post updated to clear up an idiotic confusion. In this month's issue of The New Republic, Steven Pinker critiques Leon
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Check out this funny and frightening and challenging article By Dale Ahlquist: "In 1918, Chesterton wrote a series of articles called "The Superstition of Divorce" for the
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
We do not value friendship in large part because we do not understand what a "friend" is. Consider Facebook, which is now the barometer of our relational lives.
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One of the more popular arguments against the legalization of homosexual marriage is that it will open the door to polygamous marriages, cross-species marriages, incestuous marriages, etc. The argument
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The blogosphere has been abuzz with reactions to Vanity Fair's picture of a provocatively posed Miley Cyrus. Cyrus, the star of Disney's Hannah Montana and generally
TexUncategorized
It has always been an interest of mine to compare the eye-catching slogans and headlines of major newspapers to the content of the articles that follow. Quite often the