Category Postcards from Palookaville

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Summer Reading

Del’s asked about summer reading.  Here’s mine: Theology: Johannes Vanderkemp, The Heidelberg Catechism; David F Wells, The Courage to be Protestant. Two books on my passions: Jeremy Schaap, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics.  After Emil…

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Hitch on Pat

You’ll find an interesting response from Christopher Hitchens to Pat Buchanan’s latest book (on how World War 2 was `unnecessary’ here.  I include it here because of the influence Buchanan has over many members of the Christian Right.  For those…

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Hitch on Pat

You’ll find an interesting response from Christopher Hitchens to Pat Buchanan’s latest book (on how World War 2 was `unnecessary’ here.  I include it here because of the influence Buchanan has over many members of the Christian Right.  For those…

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Anglicans and Islam

Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, has urged the church to make efforts to convert Muslims to the Christian faith.  See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022491/Bishop-says-collapse-Christianity-wrecking-British-society–Islam-filling-void.html High-ranking support seems minimal: the Mail (OK, it’s the UK equivalent of Fox News…..) says only two other (unnamed)…