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Burma 101
By
awelborn
Interestingly enough, the most recent issues of both The Atlantic and The New Yorker feature articles about Burma. Both are good reading and they complement each other, with very little cross-over. The Atlantic piece, “Lifting the Bamboo Curtain” by Robert Kaplan, examines the country’s present and recent past primarily via the diverse ethinic composition of…
In that Teachable Moment
By
awelborn
From Archbishop Chaput and Bishop Conley (it’s a pdf file) “On the Separation of Sense and State” So good. (Sorry for the lousy formatting – copied it from the pdf file.) Catholic public leaders inconvenienced by the abortion debate tend to take a hard line in talking about the “separation of Church and state.” But…
Emailbox cleaning time
By
awelborn
Okay – here are some worthy links for you. Remember – I’ve got the delicious feed over there on the right, updated several times a day with random reads (and yes, I have tried to make it collect them as an automated blog post – but to no avail. I have no idea what I’m…
Ardent
By
awelborn
All right, so Nancy Pelosi was on Meet the Press, speaking with Tom Brokaw. Among other things, she said: MR. BROKAW: Senator Obama saying the question of when life begins is above his pay grade, whether you’re looking at it scientifically or theologically. If he were to come to you and say, “Help me out…
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