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As a rule, people on the academic left tend to become angry or disturbed when books get shredded. Throw in questions about academic freedom and religion and you have a combination that can inspire the spilling of seas of ink.
Raise your hand if you think that religious conservatives play a major role in the power structure of the Republican Party today.
If this weblog has a short list of very close friends, Rod “Crunchy Cons” Dreher would have to be near the top of the list. I feel no shame pointing people toward his work, every now and then.
How do you write a story about the declining number of young priests without asking about, well, you know what? And while we’re at it, you know, the other big elephant in the living room, too?
It has taken me some time to get a handle on that recent New York Times feature that ran with the headline, “Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi” by Souad Mekhennet and Nicholas Kulish.
In the immortal words of Meg Ryan in one of my all-time favorite flicks: “I have no response to that.”
If you look in the Associated Press Stylebook, the entry for the Churches of Christ starts like this:
As strange as it sounds, the coverage of President Barack Obama’s new White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships has me yearning for the clarity of the Bill Clinton years.
But when you cruise through an entire year of GetReligion posts, it really is amazing how much can happen in a year. There’s just so much stuff in this here weblog (and most of it still “works,” even though flaws in the cyberspace concept of a “permalink” creates some holes).
