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Dark Age Ahead — Jane Jacobs’ Last Warning

Jane Jacobs, the most influential critic of urban planning of our times, died April 25 in Toronto. Her most notable book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, written in 1961, changed the debate over cities in America -- even if many of her i ...

May 3, 2006

Sen. Danforth on the Question of Marriage — A Man Lacking in Seriousness

Former Sen. John Danforth addressed the Log Cabin Republicans this past Saturday night, accepting the group's enthusiastic approval when he called efforts to ban same-sex marriage as "silly." The Log Cabin Republicans are committed to the homosexual ...

May 2, 2006

Modern Times — The High Cost of Speed

Tony Long contributes a thoughtful piece on the speed of modern life in "A Sour Note on Modern Times," published at Wired magazine. Long begins with a lament on the fact that classical music stations, in a desperate attempt to attract new listeners, ...

May 1, 2006

Blogs and the Survival of Civilization Reconsidered

Glenn Harlan Reynolds, creator of the popular Instapundit blog, thinks that Daniel Henninger is all wet when it comes to his criticisms of the blogosphere [see below]. Writing at TechCentralStation, Reynolds disagrees with Henninger's assertion that ...

April 28, 2006

Blogs and the Survival of Civilization

Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal is looking at the explosion of Web logs (or "blogs"). His analysis is that "the world of blogs may be filling up with people who for the previous 200 millennia of human existence kept their weird thoughts m ...

April 27, 2006

The China Syndrome — 40 Million Unmarried Men

China now finds itself looking a social crisis right in the face. The nation's "one child only" limitation, coupled with that culture's traditional preference for boys, has led to a huge demographic imbalance. This is what happens when the state ado ...

April 27, 2006

Mapping America by Religious Identification — A Fascinating Set of Maps

The Glenmary Research Center has produced "county-level choropleth maps" of America, marking religious identification. These are fascinating to review. The map of all religious adherents indicates that the east and west coasts are more secularized ...

April 26, 2006

The Importance of Worldview

Why do people act and think as they do? That is one of the great questions of human nature, of course. But, even as we theologians are ready to offer an answer, the political scientisists, sociologists, psychiatrists, and the like are also invested i ...

April 26, 2006

“A Retreat Into Militant Orthodoxy?”

The Guardian [London] is one of the most liberal of Britain's major daily newspapers, and it is often one of the most interesting. On Good Friday, the paper unleashed an attack upon orthodox believers that breaks new ground in secular intolerance dis ...

April 24, 2006

How Very Open-Minded

Named for William Ellery Channing, the Channing Memorial Church in Newport, Rhode Island is one of the historic congregations of Unitarian Universalism. The church is the epitome of liberal theology and church practice. Here is a statement from the c ...

April 24, 2006