Category: Blog

The Vicar’s Shifting Scruples

Maggie Smith, imperious as the Dowager Countess of Grantham, peered at the hapless vicar across from her and pronounced, “You cannot imagine that we would

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Nothing

I’ve got nothing.  Sorry to disappoint – I’m sure you were expecting some creative, insightful, reflection.  I sat down this morning trying to think of

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Super Bowl and Disney World

Where I live February is the lousiest month. The shortest, but still the lousiest. In ordinary winters, the snow by now is gray and hardened

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Voting for a Mormon

The January issue of Perspectives has two articles about the possibility of a Mormon president.  Jack Van Der Slik, emeritus political science professor from Illinois-Springfield

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Let’s Give in and Make It Fun

It’s only January and already I can’t stand another minute of “news coverage” of the presidential race.  I have stopped listening to the yammering—from the

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Of Gods and Men

  “The 150 evangelical leaders who met behind closed doors on January 14 to anoint a Republican candidate for President were wise not to have

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