by Fred Clark
16 May 2008 at 5:15am
There's a flaming red horizon that screams our names ... "Es Tut Mir Leid," Mark Heard "Escher's World," Chagall Guevara "Etcetera Whatever," Over the Rhine "Eternal Life," Jeff Buckley "Euphoria," Skatman Meredith "Eurotrash Girl," Cracker "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye,"...
by Fred Clark
15 May 2008 at 4:55pm
"California Court Affirms Right to Gay Marriage" and also -- "Gay Couples Celebrate California Court Ruling" Game on. From that first article: ?In view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship,? Chief...
by Fred Clark
13 May 2008 at 1:42pm
I've now had a chance to read the "Evangelical Manifesto" that we discussed earlier. It's rather well done and there's much to commend here. The concluding "Invitation to All" is particularly welcome. So too is what is probably the document's...
by Fred Clark
9 May 2008 at 12:03pm
Left Behind, pp. 435-437 In this little section Bruce Barnes and Rayford are playing the Antichrist Game, trying to reconcile what they know about their prime suspect with the many arcane details they've compiled in their check list. Let me...
by Fred Clark
8 May 2008 at 11:00pm
... It's hard not to fall apart "Detour Thru Your Mind," The B-52s "Detox Mansion," Warren Zevon "Devil Inside," INXS "Diamond Heart," Marissa Nadler "Diamond Ring," Pedro the Lion "Diamonds," Christine Havrilla "Diamonds and Pearls," Prince "Diamonds in the Sky,"...
by Fred Clark
8 May 2008 at 7:34am
Let me clarify that my earlier Protestant protest against the notion that the forgiveness of sins is exclusively available through the mediation of church officials shouldn't in any way be taken as an objection to the practice of priests hearing...
by Fred Clark
6 May 2008 at 8:42pm
National Public Radio's Morning Edition presented an interesting report today on the U.S. Army's internal debate: "Army Focus on Counterinsurgency Debated Within." NPR's Guy Raz interviewed a series of leading military strategists to provide a useful description of this focus...
by Fred Clark
5 May 2008 at 7:41pm
I spent Saturday morning at a confirmation ceremony, sadly confirming what I'd read here in comments about "contemporary" worship music in Catholic churches. The word contemporary is in quotes there because, as with the evangelical species of "contemporary Christian music,"...
by Fred Clark
5 May 2008 at 7:46am
Good piece in Sunday's paper on the PPR -- the poor people's rate, or the premium that poor and working classes are charged over and above what the rich charge one another for the same goods and services. If that...
by Fred Clark
5 May 2008 at 7:41am
Left Behind, pp. 431-435 Buck spent Saturday holed up in the otherwise empty Chicago bureau office, getting a head start on his article on the theory behind the disappearances. His mind continually swirled, forcing him to think about Carpathia and...
by Fred Clark
2 May 2008 at 3:01am
Hey remember this? I think we were on the letter C ... Now it's hard to say now if he's only stupid or smartWhen he crawled through the doorAnd poured out moreof his creeping-Jesus heart "Creep," Radiohead "Crescent City," Emmylou...
by Fred Clark
1 May 2008 at 7:21am
A couple of stories of people getting it right: 1. "Nun offers mercy, but robber gets jail" Sister Muriel Curran faced the man who shoved her to the ground and ripped away her purse three years ago. She quoted Scripture....
