We may be in serious trouble. Gary Wills, in his NYTimes op-ed piece, asks “Can a people that believes more fervently in the Virgin Birth than in evolution still be called an Enlightened nation?” Even more radical and paranoid is this speculation. I mean, I thought it was Central Georgia; am I to believe the [...]
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Losing Faith
It could be serendipity, or just the really cruel irony of an equally cruel deity, but hearing T.R. Reid discussing his new book The United States of Europe on Fresh Air yesterday got me thinking about the state of this country and the election that seems caught in a dead heat this morning. Apparently, the [...]
Moral Fashion
“Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?” Indeed. Paul Graham takes up an issue in “What You Can’t Say” that has been central to my life since my move to Macon about a year-and-a-half ago. I knew relocating deeper into God’s country, [...]