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The Briefing 08-31-12

The Risks And Rewards Of Romney’s Faith Story… Mormon Faith To Take The Stage… Convention Voices Hope To Add Texture To Romney’s Faith… Rain From Isaac Puts Wide Area At Risk Keep Reading

The Briefing 08-30-12

Isaac Drenches Gulf Coast And High Water Cuts Off Many… Why Do We Have Conventions? Because People Watch… Platform’s Sharp Turn To Right Has Conservatives Cheering… Republican Party Platforms, Then And Now… Keep Reading

Atheists in the Pulpit — The Sad Charade of the Clergy Project

“It is hard to think of any other profession which it is so near to impossible to leave.” That is the judgment of Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world’s most famous living atheist, as he welcomes unbelieving pastors to join the Clergy Project, a group designed to help unbelieving pastors make their way out of the ministry. Apparently, some are not moving out very fast. Keep Reading

The Briefing 08-29-12

Isaac Aims At Northern Gulf Coast After Raking Florida… Bill Nye The Science Guy Says Creationism Not Good For Kids… New Reproductive Techniques Require A New Morality… Tiger Escapes Enclosure And Kills A Woman… Alaska Grizzly Bear Kills Calif. Man… How Killer Whales Become Killers Keep Reading

The Briefing 08-28-12

Norway Mass Killer Gets The Maximum: 21 Years… The Post-Christian Condition, Anders Breivik And The Limitations Of Justice… Why Norway Is Satisfied With Breivik’s Sentence… Fathers Bequeath More Mutations As They Age… Closing The Deal On Kids Before Marriage Not Always Realistic Keep Reading

The Briefing 08-27-12

Tampa, GOP Likely To Duck The Worst Of Isaac… Neil Armstrong’s Legacy Transcends Nationality… Armstrong Drops Fight Against Doping Charges… Jury Awards $1 Billion To Apple In Samsung Patent Case Keep Reading

James 1:2-4

Why the Sexual Revolution Needed a Sexual Revolutionary

My article, “Why the Sexual Revolution Needed a Sexual Revolutionary,” is now available at The Atlantic. I write about Helen Gurley Brown’s influence in the Sexual Revolution and the revolutionary character of her agenda in her own times. Conservative Christians sometimes assume that massive cultural changes are inevitable in some sense, but such movements are actually inseparable from the individuals who push the boundaries and shift the consensus. The overturn of a sexual morality that had survived intact for thousands of years was made possible by individuals willing to scandalize the public, while creating a new setting for the cultural and moral norm. Keep Reading

The Briefing 08-24-12

Racism And The Mormon Church… Unitarians Break With Tradition Of Extended Time Off In Summer… Why the Sexual Revolution Needed a Sexual Revolutionary Keep Reading

Leading Your Family Through Ministry Crisis