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Just got back from the wedding of Sarah “Daughter of TMatt” Mattingly and Jeremy Wagner, at Sarah’s home parish, Holy Cross Antiochian Orthodox Church, in suburban Baltimore. If you had any doubt that these great kids were meant for each other, they would have been settled when Jeremy explained their wedding cake to the guests…

Joe Carter of First Things makes an astonishingly moving plea to fathers to move heaven and earth to stay with their children. How’s this for a head-snapper?: I first read that passage in 1995, the year I myself became a “weekend dad.” In February my wife told me she was gay. In March she left…

So concludes a new study, summed up this way by Ross Douthat: There’s no escaping peer effects: If your friends or neighbors or relatives get divorced, you’re more likely to get divorced — even if it’s only on the margins — no matter what kind of shape your marriage is in. And inevitably, the ripples…

NPR did a story the other day on “The Killer Inside Me,” a drama in which Casey Affleck plays a sadistic killer sheriff. The violence in the movie is so graphic some people have walked out of early screenings, NPR reported. Here’s what Affleck told NPR about the violence in the film: NORRIS: Did you…

Here’s a pretty sobering interactive map of the overall debt (public + private) of many industrialized countries, coming out of the financial crash. As bad off as you think America is, we’re in much better shape than Britain and Japan. In the same way us Louisiana folks got used to saying, “Thank God for Mississippi,”…

African-American scholar John McWhorter raves in The New Republic about Stuart Buck’s “Acting White.” Excerpts: Stuart Buck at last brings together all of the relevant evidence and puts paid to two myths. The first is that the “acting white” charge is a fiction or just pointless marginal static. The other slain myth, equally important, is…

A gay publication in Minnesota outed a conservative Lutheran pastor after its reporter infiltrated a confidential support group for Christians struggling with same-sex attractions, who wish to be chaste. In his piece, the gay journalist quotes things the pastor said in the confidential group. His justification? That the pastor has publicly criticized homosexuality. As S.T.…

Saith The New York Times: Brooklyn, the borough of churches and trees, Walt Whitman and Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand and Mike Tyson, has never lacked for people of distinction — except perhaps in one category. Nobody from Brooklyn has ever been made a saint. Wrong! Nobody from Brooklyn has ever been made a Catholic saint.…

David Brooks has an almost wistful column today gently bemoaning the kind of media culture we’ve built in which a man like Gen. McChrystal can be destroyed by a reporter for being foolishly human. Excerpt: But McChrystal, like everyone else, kvetched. And having apparently missed the last 50 years of cultural history, he did so…

A father’s dream for his son comes true, though he’s no longer here to see it. Read this gorgeous piece through to the final paragraph.
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