Monthly Archives: January 2011

January 26, 2011

Do extraterrestrial aliens have original sin?

In its issue of January 7, 2011, the National Catholic Reporter had an interview with Douglas Vakoch, a psychologist who is “director of interstellar message composition” at the SETI Institute (a job description prone to produce ecstasy in any teenage … Continue reading

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January 19, 2011

Virginity, Polyamory and the Limits of Pluralism

The German news magazine Der Spiegel, in its issue of January 3, 2011, has two separate stories that become more intriguing if one reads them together. (In a recent post I noted that I have finally discovered my mission in … Continue reading

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January 12, 2011

Jewish Identity in America

I occasionally pick up The Jerusalem Post at the famous out-of-town newspaper kiosk on Harvard Square (for ongoing news about the Middle East I rely on its very informative sister publication The Jerusalem Report). In the current international edition my … Continue reading

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January 5, 2011

Conservative Christians and the Sexual Revolution

It helps if one knows what one’s mission is in life. I am beginning to think that my mission, at least in my new life as a blogger, is to take two separate stories in The New York Times and … Continue reading

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