A La Carte (12/22)

Surreal Faith [2]
Mark Tooley writes a review of Shane Claiborne’s Jesus for President. “In Jesus for President Claiborne wants Christians to disavow their country and all civil governance in favor of exclusive allegiance to a nonviolent Jesus whose chief mission is resisting “empire.” But Claiborne’s interpretation of Jesus, his few selective quotations from early church fathers notwithstanding, is largely divorced from the universal church’s understanding of the Savior.”

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The Demise of Dating [3]
According to this article in the Times, “The paradigm has shifted. Dating is dated. Hooking up is here to stay.”

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Joe Scarborough challenges the MSM [4]
This is an enjoyable four minutes of television. “Joe Scarborough challenges the MSM on the lack of attention to Obama’s Chicago roots in light of Blago.”

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Loving Your Cellphone to Death [5]
“In the latest you’ve got to be kidding, in funerary trends, funeral directors are now telling us that people currently under 40 are increasingly requesting to be buried with their cellphones, or in some cases with their Ipods or Xbox games.”

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