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Rod Dreher
Piranhas threaten to eat Dolly Parton!
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Rod Dreher
Hey, it could happen in Nashville these days. The floodwaters burst aquariums at an area mall restaurant … including an aquarium containing piranhas … which can survive in fresh water. The restaurant says all its fish have been “contained”, which is great news … if true. If I were a state official, I’d want proof…
Christian preaching illegal in UK?
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Rod Dreher
In Britain, a street preacher was arrested recently for saying in public that homosexuality is a sin. Excerpt: Dale Mcalpine was handing out leaflets to shoppers when he told a passer-by and a gay police community support officer that, as a Christian, he believed homosexuality was one of a number of sins that go against…
Why are we ignoring the Nashville disaster?
By
Rod Dreher
Until I saw it on Sullivan’s blog, I had no idea that Nashville had been massively walloped by a flood this past week. Nashville sportswriter Patten Fuqua wonders: The Cumberland River crested at its highest level in over 80 years. Nashville had its highest rainfall totals since records began. People drowned. Billions of dollars in…
Why didn’t Walker Percy kill himself?
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Rod Dreher
Others in his melancholic family had done so. Nearing the 20th anniversary of Percy’s death by natural causes, Russell Moore ponders why the novelist escaped. Excerpt: Others have sought to argue that the difference for Walker Percy was medical or sociological or even historical (he didn’t bear as directly the regional loss of honor that…
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