Fifteen years ago, I landed my dream job. Well, OK… my dream internship, anyway. I was working for a conservative Christian lobbying group in DC. We were located just eight blocks from the White House, and we were on the front lines of the culture war. When I arrived in May of that year, I was…

by Brian Walsh (a sermon preached at Wine Before Breakfast on October 2, 2012) Let’s be clear about something from the start this morning. No one in this room – not one person, I am willing to wager – actually believes everything that St. Paul wrote in this passage to the churches in Rome. There may…

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Secret of Bill Clinton's rhetorical success? He treats listeners as if they are smart. http://t.co/RGPUvZD9 by me

Thursday 19 July 2012 12:38am Share Perhaps the best way of trying to convey the dynamic attraction of Islam is to point to the faith of my Muslim friends in very different societies. What excites me about these exemplary men and women is how their faith-filled lives challenge my own religious…

RT @JamesMartinSJ: 5 tips for creating civil discourse in an era of polarization, by a Fordham theology professor: http://t.co/t58FYbfK

I love this. RT “@abcnews: Brazil has novel idea to cut jail sentences http://t.co/rp4bStA7”

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Fantastic breakdown of Sorkin's ragey oversimplification of news and politics w/ref to David Simon. http://t.co/eRQzEzbr (via @kb)

Jasper Johns, Green Flag , 1956 (Graphite pencil, crayon and collage on paper) Pretty bad. Here is a sample of factlets from surveys and studies conducted in the past twenty years. Seventy percent of Americans believe in the existence of angels. Fifty percent believe that the earth has been visited…

Brilliant: Bubble Trouble - Phil Gerrans on toxic debt in finance and in academia http://t.co/fUe1Mrdg

Fascinating @davidrock101 look at your brain's addiction to social media (Crackbook?) http://t.co/h04j5e24

Fascinating: Can a sense of purpose slow #Alzheimer's? http://t.co/6QYvrNhK

othing else but obedience to the clear teaching of the Bible. The Bible said that adulterers cannot be members of the Kingdom of God. Jesus said that divorced and remarried people are adulterers. And so any Bible believing church had to exclude the remarried from the Kingdom of God and the Body of…

In our interview series so far, we’ve featured an atheist , a Catholic , an Orthodox Jew , a humanitarian , a Mormon , a Mennonite , an evolutionary creationist , and a Calvinist . When I asked who you wanted to hear from next, many of you requested an interview with a gay Christian. I’m so glad you…

This is probably the most political thing I will ever post on this blog, but in spite of the fact that it was inspired by a recent political debate, this isn’t actually a political post. It’s actually about people, and how we respond to these sorts of polarizing political debates. As you may know, I…

Ten commandments of twitter for academics: http://t.co/qU1CI7Yu

Stanford doesn’t want me. I can say that because it’s a documented fact: I was once denied admission in writing. I took my last math class back in high school. Which probably explains why this quiz on how to get a computer to calculate an ideal itinerary is making my brain hurt. I’m staring at a…

In a SPIEGEL interview, Czech economist Tomas Sedlacek discusses morality in the current crisis and why he believes an economic policy that only pursues growth will always lead to debt. Those who don't know how to handle it, he argues, end up in a medieval debtor's prison, as the Greeks are…

The Weight We had been on a long journey but it was lost in the bits. There's a stage in a product cycle where you know it’s going to ship. Where you can see the end. It's right there. With this vision of completion comes some perspective: You begin to reflect on all of the work that it took the…

Do nations bear a present responsibility for past crimes? Tom Rodham makes a decisive, and brilliant, contribution. http://t.co/lIstOf8k

Praising Karl Marx might seem as perverse as putting in a good word for the Boston Strangler. Were not Marx's ideas responsible for despotism, mass murder, labor camps, economic catastrophe, and the loss of liberty for millions of men and women? Was not one of his devoted disciples a paranoid…

If Steve Jobs’s life were staged as an opera, it would be a tragedy in three acts. And the titles would go something like this: Act I– The Founding of Apple Computer and the Invention of the PC Industry ; Act II– The Wilderness Years ; and Act III– A Triumphant Return and Tragic Demise . The first…

Jason Stanley interviewed by Richard Marshall. Jason Stanley is a multi-groove philosopher at Rutgers. He translated some Frege with Richard Heck. He wrote a cool book Knowledge and Practical Interests and last year a brain-boning book Know How that lames the virtue epistemology and ethics tradition…

"The ironical, as the individuality of genius, lies in the self-destruction of the noble, great, and excellent." —G. W. F. Hegel I used to think that one could excel in defeat. I mean that literally. I used to think that through the tutelage of patience and nurture, one could become excellent at…

“It really is THE revolution, it’s not a by-product of say Egypt or Facebook. The problem we’ve got is the systems that were constructed before this knowledge revolution took place are all creaky, and I don’t just mean banking, politics is falling apart. I see the revolutions of 2011 as part of…