Reader Bekah pointed us to a story in the Daily Mail with a religion-infused quote from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin:
Gov. Palin's open door policy
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Gangster of love
I was watching MSNBC on Monday night, but the Home Companion heard the theme song from Countdown with Keith Olbermann begin, and then changed the channel. No one else in the room — neither I nor the three spayed female cats we liberated from the nearest no-kill animal shelter — dared voice even the briefest protest. Such is the dismal state of my life in November 2008 in what Americans, in our hubris, call the United States of America.
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Have a happier Thanksgiving
Well, you have to admit that this Texas-sized story is a whole lot more exciting to write about than a monk from Dallas being elected leader of the scandal-rocked Orthodox Church in America. Right?
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Summuming church-state disputes
The free speech story out of Utah involving the Church of Summum and its desire to gain legitimacy and prominence in part by placing monuments of its Seven Aphorisms in public parks is perplexing from a legal perspective. USA Today‘s Joan Biskupic notes that Supreme Court Justices were sent reaching for “dramatic, even fanciful, scenarios” to help understand the legal consequences of various possible rulings.
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Penning the Archbishop
In my last post, I referred to the notion that many denominations or groups feel that press coverage of them is biased — or that they are particularly singled out for unflattering notice.
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The backward geriatrics of the OC
The other day I noted the one-sided story in the Los Angeles Times about a likable lesbian couple who live in an area that voted in support of Proposition 8, which defines marriage as a heterosexual union.
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Chicago, Dallas, we have Orthodox news
There was a stunning, amazing news story yesterday in the struggling, scandal-rocked Orthodox Church in America and the man at the center of it used be known as James Paffhausen.
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No raised eyebrows, here
Celebrity news is not a big part of what we do here, but when a story is about an actor as colorful as Mark Wahlberg, don’t you want to know some of the details when the headline is as provocative as this one?
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Too-brief tour of the new Berkeley
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.
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