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War & Torture: Foggy & Hellish
By
Tony Jones
Last night I watched The Fog of War, in which Robert McNamera reconsiders his participation in LBJ’s escalation of the Vietnam War by the addition of ground troops to the campaign of air bombing approved by JFK. Of course, there’s a lot more to the film than that, but that’s the crux: What would have…
Comment of the Weekend
By
Tony Jones
Over the weekend, I wrote a post giving three options as to why the story of Rick Warren’s inauguration prayer has hung on so long (and, as far as my blog reading this morning, it’s not going away just yet). Among the many good comments on that post was this by Rosa Lee Harden: What…
Spiritual / Religious Book of the Year
By
Tony Jones
Steve Waldman asked each of the Bnet bloggers to nominate the best spiritual or religious book we’ve read this year. He’ll post them all in the next week or so. I confess that I’m ending the year having read much less than I had hoped to. I plan on 2009 being different in that regard. …
Rick Warren’s Long Cycle
By
Tony Jones
Methinks the biggest story this week is not BO’s choice of Papa Rick to give the inaugural invocation. The biggest story this week is how big this story is. It won’t go away. I’m sure BO’s people thought it might last one news cycle, but we’re now on day four of this. And it’s showing…
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