By Steve
Wednesday July 28, 2010
- First Listen: Los Lobos, ‘Tin Can Trust’ (NPR)
- The Church on a justice mission: On the front lines of the battle against sex trafficking and forced prostitution by Amy Sherman (Books & Culture)
- ‘House’ of Blues: Hugh Laurie operating on new album (NY Times)
- The Productive Class and the American aristocracy by S.T. Karnick (American Thinker)
- Who killed James Bond? By Matthew Garrahan (Financial Times)
- The Anglican rosary as spiritual disicipline by Holly Ordway (Hieropraxis)
- Love where you live: Urban, suburban, and rural churches respond to new challenges in a less mobile era by Collin Hansen (
- Robert Randolph and The Family Band in concert (NPR)
- The ultimate conversation stopper: does life have meaning? If so many people today feel that life is a sound and fury signifying nothing, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Richard Rorty are partly to blame by Michael Casey (Mercator)
- Guilty pleasures: Religion and sex among American university students by Roger Friedland (Huffington Post)
- The amazing art of disabled artists (StumbleUpon)
- The moral naturalists by David Brooks (NY Times)
- Matisyahu sidesteps stereotypes (Charlotte Observer)
- Mother Teresa still touching hearts (Catholic Spirit)
- Stevie Ray Vaughan lives on with Legacy (Houston Chronicle)
- A review of "Up from the Cradle of Jazz" (Washington Times)
- Ambition: Vice or virtue? By Christine Whelan (Busted Halo)
- The beauty advantage: In today’s economy, looking good is no longer something we can dismiss as frivolous or vain. How beauty can affect your job, your career, your life. (Newsweek)
- Creating Sabbath peace amid the noise by Judith Shulevitz (NY Times)
- Inception’ a critic’s dream: Chris Nolan’s latest film creates new realms of reality, sets standard for films yet to come by Natalie Sandy (Badger Herald)
- It’s not just the girl with the dragon tattoo by Michael Wolff (Newser)
- Whole lotta cantin’ going on by Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun Times)
- Breaking the unwritten Latina rules: The perils of being single, Latina and over 30 (Busted Halo)
- The Myth of the Fairer Sex: Women, especially self-proclaimed feminists, must own the truth about our gender’s capacity for violence if we are ever going to be effective in ending it by Courtney E. Martin (American Prospect)
- ‘Shakespeare for Kids’ a G-rated introduction (Chicago Tribune)
- A perfect game: The metaphysical meaning of baseball by David B. Hart (First Things)
- Twilight moms and perpetual adolescence: Why are grown women going gaga over a teenage vampire-themed romance? By Carolyn Moynihan (Mercator)
- The shadow of the Antichrist: A critique of Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity by Laura C. Miguélez (Books & Culture)
- Sculptor is colt whisperer: Cowboys are not a common sight in New York—at least not the fully clothed variety—but there a bunch of them were last week, awaiting the opening of an art show by one of their own. (Wall Street Journal)
- Boney M asked to skip hit in West Bank gig (Yahoo)
- The power of redemption: Shirley Sherrod’s speech, and her story, has lessons for us all by Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal)
- Mel Gibson: Conservative demon or Caravaggio? Scandalous tape recordings expose the movie star in an ugly light, but some critics are honing their own agendas by Carolyn Moynihan (Mercator)
- Miracle grow: The teen brain is a marvel of smarts. It’s just not all filled in (yet). (Boston Globe)
- Of snobbery and soccer by Theodore Dalrymple (New English Review)
- Which countries are happiest? by David P. Goldman (First Things)
- Obama moves away from ‘Freedom of Religion’ toward ‘Freedom of Worship’? (Catholic Online)
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