Tagged: Politics

Vote Like a Baby

Vote Like a Baby

For reasons I’d rather not guess, the Texas Right to Life mailed us the above advertisement.  When you flip it over, you see it’s an endorsement of Scott Turner for the TX State House. ...

My Alma Mater, Making National News

My Alma Mater, Making National News

Franciscan University of Steubenville is a small Catholic college not especially well known outside of a few niche Catholic circles, but its decision to drop student healthcare coverage, ostensibly in response to the HHS...

Vote Well or Go to Hell

Vote Well or Go to Hell

I don’t have a TV and I seldom listen to the radio, so I’m spared the unseemly barrage of political advertisements that most Americans must suffer.  Alas, I cannot evade all the campaign season’s...

Christianity and Power

Christianity and Power

In his Newsweek cover-essay, Andrew Sullivan expresses his longing for a “simpler, purer, apolitical Christianity” and anticipates that the religion will rise from its current crisis when “when politics and doctrine and pride recede.” ...

Secularism Needs Pluralism

Secularism Needs Pluralism

Michael Brendan Dougherty, in response to my cheers for a pluralist, secular state, presses me via Twitter on what happens if secularism isn’t pluralistic.  When that happens, society risks suffering from a problem similar...

Santorum, Obama, and Theological Politics

Santorum, Obama, and Theological Politics

There’s always a danger of reading too much into a vague statement some politician makes, especially when the statement is presented without context, so I want to tread carefully when examining the following quote...

Pluralistic Society and the Culture Wars

Pluralistic Society and the Culture Wars

I detest the culture wars. I really do. My disposition toward cultural and societal difference is typically to cheer the dialogue and cherish the multitude of differing voices as we try to figure out...

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