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The Briefing 05-17-13

1. Rapid pace of secularization and rise of Islam in Great Britain Christianity declining 50pc faster than thought – as one in 10 under-25s is a Muslim, The Telegraph (John Bingham)What Does the Census Tell Us about Religion in 2011? The Office for ...

May 17, 2013

The Briefing 05-07-13

1. The new reality of terror: homemade and homegrown A Homemade Style of Terror: Jihadists Push New Tactics, New York Times (Scott Shane) 2. There is a fix for the brain altering effects of pornography: stop viewing porn Online Pornography's ...

May 7, 2013

Gore Vidal and the Sky God

The death of author and controversialist Gore Vidal last week brought an end to one of America's most gifted and flamboyantly offensive literary voices. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was born in 1925 on the campus of the United States Military Academy at ...

August 6, 2012

The Briefing

State of the Union... 3 fatherless boys express what words could not... Slain officers' boys will always be 'sons of this department'... MTV's Naked Calculation Gone Bad... Report: First two years of college show small gains... YSL's new iPad Case ...

January 26, 2011

The Briefing

No Buzzing Little Fly Why the Creation Evolution Debate is so Important... The Deadly Logic of Anti-Blasphemy Laws... Navy Captain Loses Carrier Job Over Raunchy Videos... Getting Over Our Two-Year Itch... Tablets and Televisions Set to Dominate a Co ...

January 5, 2011

The Briefing

Remembering John Lenon and The Beatles... The Death of Elizabeth Edwards... A necessary censoring in the House... The Divorce Industrial Process... And Extreme Makeover: Criminal Court Edition ...

December 8, 2010

Transgressing the Transgressive–Why Modern Art No Longer Shocks

The great code word for art meant to scandalize is "transgressive." The term was well-established by the end of the 1960s, when artists sought to scandalize middle-class morality by "transgressing" moral boundaries. Artists and writers began pushing ...

December 8, 2010

The Briefing

The Wall Street Journal gets Yoga right, but Baptists wrong... Why China fears Christians... The last Episcopal holdout gives out... Freedom of religion speech in Los Angeles... Rethinking the culture of poverty... The perpetual French Revolution... ...

October 22, 2010

The Briefing

France bans the Burqa... Ontario discovers Sharia Law... Woody Allen dismisses Faith... The Pope goes to Britain... And John F. Kennedy gives a Speech ...

September 16, 2010

Real Enough? — Relics, Gopher Wood, and the Sufficiency of Scripture

For centuries, an inordinate and unhealthy attention has been directed to certain items claimed to be relics of Christ, Christian leaders, or illustrious Christians. The veneration of relics has been a major feature of Roman Catholic popular piety si ...

May 13, 2010

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