Great article over at Christianity Today on Patricia Heaton of Everybody Loves Raymond fame. It is hard to believe a person can be so balanced and faithful and live and work in Hollywood. Here are some teasers: “I struggle to keep it simple. Obedience, sacrifice, and modesty are not real popular buzzwords out here. An [...]
UPDATE: You can listen to the “interview” here. Check out the huge block of time, in radio terms, that Kerry gets to offer campaign soundbites unrealted to the questions asked. By my count he has at least 60 seconds on the first answer and more than that on the second. imagine what that would cost [...]
Just got back from Denison University where we heard John Derbyshire speak about his book Prime Obsession (my review here, interview here and here). As you would expect, John is as gentlemanly and gracious in person as he is in print. I hope to have lunch with him tomorrow. I had hoped to add some [...]
Talk about bad timing, just as I was beginning to make the argument that the GOP could be nudged back toward limited government, the New York Times reports that Bush Is Said to Seek More Money for Arts: Administration officials, including White House budget experts, said that Mr. Bush would propose an increase of $15 [...]
In the previous post I discussed some fundamental conservative ideas and their ramifications for government. Now I want to talk about some actual policies that grow from these ideas. In general, I think Bush has good intentions and holds conservative beliefs but that political dynamics and a certain timidness undermines his plans. Let’s start with [...]
I have decided to come out of semi-hibernation and resuscitate my lagging pundit status by tackling a serious issue. It seems that President Bush is causing the conservative base to grumble and the libertarian alliance to scream. Andrew Sullivan declares in Time magazine the astounding discovery that W is not a libertarian! No offence to [...]
Thanks to Jonah I have been playinh this blasted penguin game for the last 20 minutes. My best effort was a 320.5
I have long had a fascination with fiction books that touch on the divine. Fiction provides a unique way to explore spiritual issues while the concept of a human being becoming divine can shock us out of our preconceived notions. Given this background my interest was peaked by this description of Janis Hallowell’s soon to [...]
The publisher offers this one sentence description of Mark Anderson’s memoir Jesus Sound Explosion: “A preacher’s kid looks back on a childhood bounded by Godspell and the Moral Majority.” While that is an accurate and catchy sentence, it is difficult to unpack exactly what it means. Explosion is not really a simple chronological narrative about [...]
Anna Sergeevna was a fairly strange creature, Having no prejudices, not even having any strong beliefs, she was not accustomed to yield to anything and was not on her way to discovering anything. She had a clear idea of many things, many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her completely. What is more, she scarcely [...]