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Alan Greenspan’s faith has been shaken, but will he apologize for his sins? Marilyn Sewell examines how blind allegiance to abstract economic theory can lead to harmful rationalizations.
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Dating Jesus: link to Beacon Press page for the book When did Sarah Palin become a fundamentalist? I’d like to know, because I never once saw her in the pews of my own fundamentalist church in southwest Missouri, where I came to Jesus, taught Sunday school, and worked a church bus route. When precisely did…
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The Great True Faith of our times may have been badly shaken in recent days; but faith that is shaken remains, at its core, a matter of blind devotion. And while Merrill Lynch is gone forever, that big bronze bull still flares its massive horns down at Bowling Green Park, a few blocks south of…
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In the run-up to tonight’s Vice Presidential debate, which will be hosted by Gwen Ifill, we’re seeing an slight uptick in traffic from conservative blogs linking to her cousin Sherrilyn Ifill’s post on The Relevance of Nooses and Lynching in the Age of Obama. For those of you who clicked through to read the entire…
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The theology of the Unetane Tokef–which appears in both the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy–has always troubled me–how can we accept that tefillah (prayer) and teshuvah (repentance) and tzedekah (acts of righteousness, usually translated as “charity”) are going to save us from earthquakes, car accidents, persecution? We know that lots of very good people…
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In the New York Times Magazine last weekend, David Gessner, author of Soaring With Fidel, weighed the pros and cons of teaching and writing, and teaching writing. Salon talks with Carmine Sarracino about our porn-saturated culture. Sarracino is co-author of The Porning of America. David Moore (The Opinion Makers) was on Greater Boston this Monday…
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The literary world lost two vital voices last week: author David Foster Wallace and poet/poetry blogger Reginald Shepherd. Kottke has assembled a comprehensive links list for DFW memorials, although you could spend the day trolling through the thousands of blog posts reacting to his death. You can read Reginald Shepherd’s final poem, “God-With-Us,” on his…
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Next Thursday, September 25th, is the cut-off date for public comments on the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed regulations concerning the expansion of the so-called “conscience clause” of the 2004 Weldon Amendment, which would ban federal funds from medical establishments that “discriminate” against health care providers or institutions by requiring them to participate…
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