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Leonard Cohen “If It Be Your Will” (in memoriam: FredHjr)
I’ve been thinking of FredHjr and what a fine man he was, and how much I and others here will miss him. It’s no exaggeration to say that many of us are grieving. This particular piece by Leonard Cohen kept … Continue reading →
Africa and change: what hath the missionaries wrought?
Matthew Parris is a British atheist, not predisposed to favor or look kindly on the work of Christian missionaries in Africa. And yet he also seems to be a member of that rare group of people who, when observing a … Continue reading →
About blessings and enemies
Blogger Yaacov Ben Moshe is an essayist whose thoughts are well worth reading. In this post, he ruminates on Mumbai and its significance, as well as his rage at the following bumper sticker, which he saw recently on a car … Continue reading →
Irony of ironies, all is irony
In the last sentence of my PJ essay I mentioned that this campaign contains many ironies. What might they be?
Continue reading →Modernizing the King James Bible
[NOTE: Yesterday I wrote about literary style vs. substance. I concluded that it’s possible to have the first while lacking the second, especially in the realm of politics. Today I’m writing about a work that undoubtedly has both style and … Continue reading →
Obama’s “historic” win
Obama won enough delegates yesterday to almost certainly become the 2008 Democratic Presidential nominee. A number of articles about that fact make use of the word “historic.” Indeed, it is. Of course, if Hillary Clinton had won the nomination instead, … Continue reading →
The Wright-Moyers interview: Render unto Caesar?
From last night’s Bill Moyers PBS interview with Jeremiah Wright, the quote that got the most attention was this: [Obama]’s a politician, I’m a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as … Continue reading →
Having an epiphany about Obama
Somehow I’d missed the following extraordinary statement (HT: Obama Messiah) made by Obama in a speech he gave at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, shortly before the primary in that state: My job this morning is to be so persuasive…that … Continue reading →
Fanaticism inherent in Islam itself: Hirsi Ali reviews Lee Harris
Surprisingly, the NY Times has published a lengthy and somewhat favorable review of Lee Harris’s latest book about the threat Islam presents to the West, entitled The Suicide of Reason. Hirsi Ali was the Times’s interesting choice as reviewer. Raised … Continue reading →
Religion and the Presidency
Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is a Catholic, although—as this column by Richard Cohen points out—his marital history isn’t precisely what the Catholic church would consider ideal. Cohen compares Giuliani’s recent answer to a question about his Catholicism with that of … Continue reading →
Muslim moderates, Muslim secularism
Here’s a must-read (and it’s relatively short, too) by Robert Spencer on the topic of Muslim secularism. We often speak of the need for moderate Muslims. And it’s undoubtedly true that some Muslims are indeed moderate. But as Spencer points … Continue reading →