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PETA Wants You to Say ‘No Thanks’ to Turkey

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [PETA], always out on the radical fringe, is busy with its annual crusade against the eating of Thanksgiving turkeys. It's now offering "The Top Ten Reasons Not to Eat Turkey" on its web site. I won't bu ...

November 23, 2005

Revisiting the All Saints Case

The New York Times editorializes on the Internal Revenue Service's investigation of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, concluding that "it would seem to be hard to justify picking on a church that has a long record of opposition to ...

November 22, 2005

What Funeral Music Says About Us

Funeral music can be beautiful, declaring the Gospel and the majesty of God. Or, it can be maudlin, superficial, banal -- and even heretical. The choice says much about us, and much about our faith. In an increasingly secular world, the abandonmen ...

November 21, 2005

No One Needs French Theory — Baudrillard Speaks

Jean Baudrillard, one of France's most prominent thinkers, is famous for his theory that reality is constructed out of simulation and simulacrum -- signs and images. In a media driven age, these signs and images replace the real and appear as the do ...

November 21, 2005

A New Experience — I Agree with Michael Kinsley

Michael Kinsley, a prolific liberal thinker now associated with The Los Angeles Times, is a writer with whom I rarely agree. He's smart and articulate (he was the founding editor of Slate magazine), but he can also be infuriating. So, when I saw his ...

November 18, 2005

Are You “Metrospiritual”

So now there's yet another word for our modern spiritual confusion. Ariana Speyer reports that the newest packaging of pop spirituality is the "metrospiritual wave." Writing at Beliefnet.com, Speyer explains that the "metrospiritual" phenomenon eme ...

November 17, 2005

An Honest Proposal — A Candid Admission

Dan Savage, writing in today's edition of The New York Times, suggests that liberals should work to amend the U.S. Constitution in order to add "privacy" to the enumerated rights explicitly included in our governing document. His proposal: If the R ...

November 16, 2005

A Patriarch Passes — The Death of Dr. Adrian Rogers

The news from Memphis brings to a close one of the greatest pulpit ministries of our times. Dr. Adrian Rogers died early this morning after a brave fight against cancer. Few men have left such an impact on a church, a denomination, and the larger wor ...

November 15, 2005

Meeting Maureen Dowd — I’m Necessary After All

Maureen Dowd, one of the nation's most articulate and quotable liberal columnists, was in Washington, DC today for a book-signing appearance at one of the local Border's bookstores. I was in town to deliver a public lecture on "A Christian Vision of ...

November 15, 2005

“Mini-Porn” — A Major Problem

The Washington Post reports today that "mini-porn" is soon to become a big deal. In "Mini-Porn Could Be Mega-Business," reporter Mike Musgrove describes what this phenomenon represents: Pornography is spreading from the computer desktop to the smal ...

November 15, 2005