Category Postcards from Palookaville

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The God That Failed

So Anne Rice has quit Christianity, or Roman Catholicism, or whatever.    She did it via a Facebook posting, apparently, rather than a book, but it still surely merits the response Edward Said gave to The God That Failed —…

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The God That Failed

So Anne Rice has quit Christianity, or Roman Catholicism, or whatever.    She did it via a Facebook posting, apparently, rather than a book, but it still surely merits the response Edward Said gave to The God That Failed —…

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Return of the King

According to the Wall Street Journal, Ted Haggard is back.  As Tiger Woods needs to golf and Michael Vick needs to play football (or, from a British perspective `stand around posing in spandex tights, giving high fives and doing little…

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Return of the King

According to the Wall Street Journal, Ted Haggard is back.  As Tiger Woods needs to golf and Michael Vick needs to play football (or, from a British perspective `stand around posing in spandex tights, giving high fives and doing little…

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Furry Friends

On Saturday I happened to be in Pittsburgh, watching the TV in my hotel room.  The newscast announced that the annual Furry Convention was taking place in town.  For those who don’t know what a `furry’ is (and that was…

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Furry Friends

On Saturday I happened to be in Pittsburgh, watching the TV in my hotel room.  The newscast announced that the annual Furry Convention was taking place in town.  For those who don’t know what a `furry’ is (and that was…

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You know things are bad….

….when politicians are behaving with the same honour and integrity as we have come to expect from certain church leaders.  Not using `theological leverage’ or being `relationally mobile’ with their best friend’s wife; merely `misspeaking’ apparently.  See here.