In reverse order, my favorite GetReligion posts were
The fab five and an extra band member
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Dreary holiday parties: Not just for theists anymore!
Allen Salkin brings a playful spirit to his New York Times report about how Festivus is becoming a countercultural tradition in the more ironic circles of American culture. If Festivus sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because it had an unusually powerful forum for its birth: An episode of Seinfeld, broadcast in the week before Christmas in 1997.
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Fab five: What we're doing here, Part II
A confession: I have no idea how to answer Bob Carlton’s call for my top five posts of the year, which, in this case, also means we are trying to select our favorite work in the (almost) first year of this still experimental and not even in a permanent format blog.
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How we got here
Christopher Caldwell has written a cover story for the current Weekly Standard that’s a tour d’horizon of the Netherlands, a society on the verge of remaking itself in response to Theo van Gogh’s murder.
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Christmas Wars 2004: Why not try equal access?
So what do you think? Should Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer create a national network called "Jews for Christmas"?
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Fab five for 2004
Bob Carlton of The Corner, cribbing an idea from A Penny For, has generously invited various bloggers to cite their five favorite pieces from 2004.
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Seeking forgiveness
David Crumm, a veteran religion writer and columnist at the Detroit Free Press, makes an ingenious gift suggestion for Christmas: Offer a heartfelt apology to somebody.
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An amazingly bookish "anti-intellectual"
Priya Jain has published a fascinating essay in Salon, which holds up the 12th-century lovers Abelard and Heloise as icons for religious progressives in the 21st century. Jain bases her essay on a biography of the couple published by British journalist James Burge earlier this year.
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Desist and apologize for your blaspheming ways
Was I ever ahead of the curve on this one. Last October, when I was still assistant managing editor of the American Spectator, we ran a piece on the website by Kathy Shaidle (of Relapsed Catholic fame) about Irshad Manji, the Toronto-based writer who had just written the book The Trouble With Islam.
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