Daily Archives: June 24, 2006

Testify and Amen

From Randall Balmer, professor of American religious history at Barnard College: Jesus is not a Republican: I went to Sunday school nearly every week of my childhood. But I must have been absent the day they told us that the followers of Jesus were obliged to secure even greater economic advantages for the affluent, to […]

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The Great Book Triage of 2006

Because the quantity of books I have threaten to collapse upon me and cwush my widdle head, we have, as a temporary measure, packed up the majority of my books into plastic tote containers, for easy shlepping to the basement. At some point in the near future I’ll put up some more bookshelves and they […]

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