Just cuz I feel like it…

I see that Kevin Carson‘s book Studies in Mutualist Political Economy is the subject of an entire symposium issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. Kevin runs the very interesting Mutualist blog and has even been known to comment here from time to time. I haven’t read Kevin’s book, but from what I’ve been able…

Bible scholar Ben Witherington III critiques Joel Osteen‘s variation of the “prosperity gospel.” Some commenters defend Osteen on the grounds that, e.g. his church is very multiracial. Which is surely a good thing, but the question for the church (qua church, as it were) is what does it gather around? The gospel of Jesus Christ…

Here’s a helpful chart (PDF) offering side-by-side comparisons of the various proposals currently on the table. (Via Tapped)

Spotted last night in downtown Philadelphia: a vaguely punk-ish looking guy wearing a green hooded sweatshirt on the back of which he had written in big, black letters: “Death to Emo.” So, have we entered the post-emo era?

Okay, I guess I have something to say about the immigration issue after all. Not so much about the concrete policy proposals being offered, but about the kinds of moral issues raised by the debate. The question, as I see it, is something like this: do we have obligations to those with whom we have…

The mysterious Abby speaks! As a firm believer that a woman’s place is in the home, I thought I would post a few recipes. As you may know, we don’t eat meat and we try to eat a low-sodium diet (thanks, Mom, for the blood pressure gene). Here are two favs: Whole wheat dinner rolls:1/2…

This story reports that a study sponsored by the Templeton Foundation indicated that heart surgery patients who were being prayed for didn’t show a higher rate of recovery than those who weren’t being prayed for and, in fact, had slightly more complications. I’m always baffled that people take studies like this at all seriously. They…

Kim at Crossroads on the question “What is poverty?” A discussion of universalism at Flos Carmeli. Camassia‘s series of “Questions of a Catechumen” (here, here, and here with more to come(?)). Immigration has been a hot topic what with the various bills being debated in the House and Senate. “Gaius” of the Conservative Green has…

One is naturally cynical about record companies cashing in (no pun intended) on a recently deceased star by releasing all kinds of third-rate “previously unreleased” material. But this advanced review of the Johnny Cash Personal File – unreleased acoustic recordings Cash recorded himself mostly in the 70s – makes it sound really good. Ironically, the…