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He loses his job for breaking company rules, but his point is still relevant.

Sadly, many still clueless on trial’s lessons.

Why the Aqua Buddha ad isn’t despicable, Part II.

Faced with being expelled, he drops position on old-earth creationism.

Missing the forest for the turban.

In more ways than have been understood to date, Greece has become Ground Zero of the global meltdown, the epicenter of a shock wave that will yet reveal to us the surprising extent, not just of corporate excess, but of corporations themselves, corporations that now include governments and congregations. We have yet to think through this new way of seeing some very old things: and thus what it means for the Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church to be a transnational corporation today.

Tea Party religion.

Since last week’s bombing, I’ve spent quite a bit of time reviewing old photographs from trips to Pakistan. In seeing pictures of the shrine pre-attack, and in vividly recalling crowds of peaceful worshipers congregating there, posing no discernible threat to anyone, I was nearly moved to tears.

On recognizing and embracing natural allies.

I must admit, I was pretty excited when I heard about God in America. My husband and I are big PBS fans. As the show proceeded, however, I became increasingly annoyed. We moved from the Franciscans to the Puritans, with John Winthrop ostensibly treating Anne Hutchinson as badly as the Franciscans had the Pueblos. But it seems there were no indigenous people at all in New England in those days—or else they and the Puritans got on extremely well.