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Rod Dreher
Tradition, liberty and the open road
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Rod Dreher
Via Andrew Sullivan, I learned of Jesse Walker’s remembrance of Dennis Hopper, which contains these fascinating sentences: A central theme of the western is the tension between the sometimes lonely freedom of the road and the sometimes suffocating security of the rooted community. Easy Rider took place in a modern western landscape, not in the…
Science & religion incompatiblists shut out?
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Rod Dreher
Science + Religion Today draws attention to a controversy at the World Science Festival, on now in NYC. There’s a panel discussion about the relationship between science and faith. On the panel: astrophysicist Paul Davies, biologist Francisco J. Ayala — both past Templeton Prize winners, I should note — plus Biblical scholar Elaine Pagels and…
Oil spill & the uneasy Evangelical conscience
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Rod Dreher
Whatever you do today, you have to read this stunning blog entry from the Southern Baptist theologian Russell D. Moore, who just returned from a visit to Biloxi, Miss., his hometown. He calls the Gulf spill the ecological Roe v. Wade for Evangelicals. Excerpt: As I pass that sign on Highway 90 telling me I’m…
Ted Haggard event pre-criticized for your convenience
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Rod Dreher
Here’s what’s going to happen today, says the AP: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard has called a news conference to announce the next step in his career. OK, stop right there. You want a sign that you, a disgraced megachurch pastor trying to rebuild your marriage and your reputation after being…
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