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May 21, 2013
Making fun of journalists
The inimitable Lutheran journalist Mollie Z. Hemingway satirically dismantles the practice of journalism as it is practiced today. The piece defies summary or excerpt. Just read it at Intercollegiate Review: How to Be a Really Lousy Journalist for Fun and Profit | Intercollegiate Review.
IRS also targeted religious groups
It wasn’t just Tea Party groups that the IRS harassed, delayed, and audited. Some religious groups were too, including some that already had the non-profit exemption. See the list after the jump. From the Religious News Service. (The links are to the specific charges the groups are making against their treatment at the hands of [...]
New technology for Patheos
Going to Patheos has worked well for this blog. Our readership is up half again what it was before we made the move. And I’ve gotten used to the form (short posts on the homepage with a jump to the rest of it) and like it. Yes, we’ve complained about the new Disqus comment system, [...]
May 20, 2013
Who proceeds from the Father and the Son
Happy Pentecost yesterday! May the Holy Spirit pour out His richest blessings on you. May the Holy Spirit work in your heart as you hear God’s Word. Here is a question about the Holy Spirit that I would like to submit to the collective theological knowledge manifested in the readership of this blog: In Western [...]
Locusts, hold the wild honey
In the course of their remarkable life-cycle, cicadas come to the surface only every seventeen years. This is the year. Going along with that new culinary trend I blogged about, some people tare planning on eating them, including a frozen custard stand in Alexandria that will feature a flavor called Cicada Crunch. The link in [...]
A pregnant woman as a household of two
In a column about the intricacies of young adults staying on their parents’ insurance plan (worth reading in itself), health columnist Michelle Andrews mentions a curious Medicaid provision: The joint state-federal health program for low-income people generally provides coverage for pregnant women with incomes up to 185 percent of the federal poverty level. By counting [...]
May 17, 2013
Your Local Attractions
We are getting ready to set forth on an epic road trip, going the length and breadth of this great land of ours. I’ve always wanted to do that. To get our minds ready for summer vacations and as an experiment in localism, I would like to ask you this: If I or any other [...]
My book on George Herbert is back in print
My first book, Reformation Spirituality: The Religion of George Herbert, is back in print. It is basically my dissertation, which I revised for publication by Bucknell University Press back in 1985. Recently, Wipf & Stock approached me about re-issuing it. You can see in it the research I was doing in Reformation theology and 17th [...]
The Great or Not-so-great Gatsby?
Words and images are two different media, so a novel and a movie are two different kinds of art forms. Sometimes a good written story can be told visually, but if what makes the novel good is its language, that may not translate at all into motion pictures. I don’t know if the movie version [...]
Journalists are turning on the White House
As I predicted, the news media is turning on the Obama administration. Not just because the Justice Department, trying to trace a leak, subpoenaed phone companies for a list of calls made and received over two months by 20 reporters from the Associated Press (including both office and personal cell phones). According to the [...]
