The Game Show Network has launched The National Vocabulary Championship with a $40,000 grand prize. The contest measures word usage and comprehension. It’s like “American Idol, a spelling bee, and Jeopardy all rolled into one,” Martha Barnette, A Way With Words.
I personally haven’t thought about “gay marriage” in over a year, and just like the recent news about partial birth abortion made me reflect on the topic, anew I have new experiences to bring to this discussion since I am now married.
This is a rather old article/podcast (from 2004?) from Speaking of Faith, (which was [...]
I’m all about old stuff right now and most topics with some level of erudition. Church fathers, being set apart, tradition revitalization– maybe it’s the current cultural intercourse with Islam or just plain post-marriage/pre-kids existential thought.
Whatever the cause, I’m liking introspective old stuff right now. Its validity seems greater than my current add-God-to-my-Facebook informality with [...]
I thought it was appropriate to mention this, since here in Indianapolis, Indiana–it’s the “Year of Vonneget” I’m guessing that all the Q&A sessions with him that were scheduled have been cancelled.
In A Man Without a Country, he wrote that “if I shall ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof [...]
America at a Crossroads series of 11 documentaries is scheduled to launch on Sunday, April 15 and will run nightly through Friday, April 20, 9:00 - 11:00 p.m. (ET). Additional films will air as specials following the premiere.
America at a Crossroads is a major public television event premiering on PBS in April 2007 that explores [...]
I know there is a small group of people that read this blog–mainly friends and family. So I’m curious what you, the reader would like from these posts? Entertainment? Education? Information? Debate? News? Community?
The funny thing is that there is no real topic here, except what I run into on a daily basis whether that [...]
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. became the world’s greatest super power. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor for President Carter, offers an in-depth analysis of how each of our presidents since 1991, George H.W Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, has performed in this unprecedented role.
Listen now to Zbigniew [...]
“I would rather be in a Kenyan slum then in hotel in transient hotel in New York City.”
“I would say that being poor in the U.S. is a cross between being poor in Japan and being poor in Mexico, because there is a combination of shame and anger.”
“In America we feel entitled to be rich [...]
Where the evangelical right has come from and where is the going politically? More international, more environmental?
Journalist Dan Gilgoff is the author of the new book The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War
‘The Jesus Machine’ Tracks James Dobson’s Rise, Fresh Air (NPR)
Not that I would know, but Author Laura Sessions Stepp has a new book about young women today. It’s called Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both.She warns teens and twenty-somethings of the heavy emotional cost of “hooking up” with no commitment or entanglement.
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