Just the other day, I paid my first-ever visit to that amazing campus on the hillside above Oakland — the University of California at Berkeley.
Too-brief tour of the new Berkeley
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What Obama's grandmother may already know
Of the many articles written about the death late Sunday of Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, nothing expressed Christian hope quite so well as these pithy words from blogger Andrew Sullivan:
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Young evangelical Republicans cope
The big story in Friday’s Washington Post was headlined “God, Country and McCain.” The article was less on those three subjects and more an attempt to demonstrate the current mindset of young conservative evangelical Republicans on the eve of what could be for many of them their first electoral defeat as active voters.
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Some evangelical girls get pregnant
Margaret Talbot, writing in the latest New Yorker, has a fascinating piece about evangelical teenagers’ sexual attitudes and practices. It begins by noting that the news of and reaction to Bristol Palin’s pregnancy shocked liberals. They expected evangelical voters to freak out over the news rather than be unfazed by it:
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Calvin without predestination?
The New Republic and The Washington Post have paid tribute recently to novelist Marilynne Robinson. Both articles — a 4,100-word essay-review in TNR by Ruth Franklin, a senior editor, and a 2,400-word profile by Post reporter Bob Thompson — are informative and well-written. In one major respect, Thompson understands Robinson with greater precision.
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In the air with the LA Times
I know that I have said this before, but every time that I head out to Southern California, I pick up the Los Angeles Times and I’m reminded of how much news there is in the dead-tree-pulp edition, compared with what I usually see reading the same newspaper online. I always see extra religion stories and religion-haunted stories on paper that I don’t see in the digital world. Why is that?
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Wanted: More evangelical journalists?
Several GetReligion readers (and former students) have written to let me know that there is a strange picture of me in their local newspapers.
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Baylor Lariat rounds up a ghost
You know something interesting is taking place on a campus when your student newspaper ends up being quoted in the New York Times. When your school is the world’s largest Baptist university, you just know that this is rarely going to be good news.
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Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet
I wasn’t able to take very much Latin in junior high school, but I’m pretty sure that it was the most important subject I studied. It helped immeasurably with learning other foreign languages, English grammar and vocabulary in general. When our children are ready, we’ll be sending them* to a school where Latin is a major component.
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