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Monthly Archives: December 2010
In Defense of a Commercialized Christmas
Many retail stores depend on Christmas shopping for their survival. Economists tell us that the current uptick of this seasonal shopping is good news for the recovery from the recession. Christian clergy and secular culture critics tend to have a … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Europe, United States
Some Theologians Never Die—They Just Wait to be Googled.
From the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, an unassuming and rather pedantic German scholar was at the center of passionate international debates in Protestant theology. Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) was a well-known New Testament scholar. Bultmann was a professor at the … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Protestantism, Supernatural, Uncategorized
Afrobeat on a London Stage
I was in London last week, for a reason totally unrelated to the topic of this blog entry. Dr. Johnson famously observed that, if you are tired of London, you are tired of life. I tend to agree. Part of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Europe, Sociology, United States
Am I My DNA?
On November 28, 2010, the National Catholic Reporter, the banner journal of liberal Catholicism, published a lengthy excerpt from a forthcoming book, The Social Mission of the U.S. Catholic Church, by Father Charles Curran. As the NCR editorial on that … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Morality, Religion
Interfaith Kumbaya?
A few days before Thanksgiving The New York Times carried a brief report about a pre-holiday interfaith breakfast in Westchester County, the affluent suburban area just north of New York City. It was convened by Rabbi Mark Sameth, known as … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Hinduism, Inter-faith Dialogue, United States
