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Where have you gone, Butch and Sundance?
One of the commenters in the Religion and Politics series calls himself “Normal mainstream republican,” a title that might as well have read “Endangered Species.” He got me...
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Religion and Politics III: Foreign Policy.
Well, this may be a mercifully brief edition, as I’ve been basking in the green Sierra. My overheated synapses were gloriously sanctified in the restorative waters of Huntingt...
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Religion and Politics II, Domestic Policy
A high school acquaintance recently surfaced on my Facebook. He is currently the minister to a so-called 'subversive' Lutheran congregation in the east. When I inquired about...
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Religion and Politics, Part 1 (uh-oh)
America is a nation founded in major part by refugees to whom religious expression was important enough to risk the perils of an ocean voyage and brave the challenges of fro...
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Just who IS this Obama guy, anyway?
It’s tempting to begin this week’s epistle with an inquiry about whether anybody feels better about last week’s DC debacle, from an investor’s vantage fully 15% below where yo...
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It’s Not Your Founding Fathers’ First Amendment
I have always had profound respect for the First Amendment’s genius, considering it the most fundamental expression of America’s respect for individual freedom. It guards u...
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Ike’s Farewell, Revisited
I recently came across President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the nation, circa 1961, on a Great Speeches CD. It’s impressive in its predictive power and in its moderatio...
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What price retribution?
Some interesting internal conversations occur when there’s tension between two competing beliefs inside any one person’s head. For the many Californians who support both the ...
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