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May 7, 2010The Mother of Mother's Day
Anna Jarvis spent her life trying to get people to get it. Mother's Day is a sacred commitment, not an annoying obligation to be fulfilled by fattening the pockets of the florists, the chocolatiers and Hallmark. "What will you do to rout charlatans, bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers and other termites that would undermine with their greed one of the finest, noblest and truest movements and celebrations?" she railed, in one of her many diatribes against the commercialization of the day she had envisioned as far more profound. "I wanted Mother's Day," she said, "to be a day of spiritual sentiment, not profit."
![]() ![]() January 28, 2010Who'll Feed Fido During the Final Judgment?
"You've committed your life to Jesus," the site announced. "You know you're saved. But when the Rapture comes, what's to become of your loving pets who are left behind? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind."
![]() ![]() January 13, 2010Wheaton Weighs Its Future
This
year, Wheaton College celebrates its 150th birthday, making it a
time to look back and look forward at the "evangelical Harvard," particularly
as the school prepares to name a new president this spring. In "Whither Wheaton?", Andrew Chignell, a Cornell philosophy prof and Wheaton alum
('96), takes stock of the current administration's successes--e.g., growth of
the endowment, expansion of the physical plant--as well as its controversies--from
some rigidly conservative hiring decisions to its top-down managerial style.
And he registers concerns of faculty, students, and supporters about what
course the college is headed as it appoints new leadership. Notes Chignell:
![]() ![]() December 21, 2009Favorite Christmas Flicks One of the things I most look forward to at the holiday season is
settling down with a big bowl of chips, salsa and kosher pickles and
watching my favorite Christmas movies. It's become a real tradition to
visit with old Scrooge and the other characters we've all grown to love
through the years and relive, yet again, their trials, tribulations and
transformations.
![]() ![]() December 14, 2009Palin and Prejean: Dumb and Dumber As long as there are die-hard Christian rightists, there will always be a home for the Carries and Sarahs of the world. Sean Hannity, who proudly wrote the foreword to "Still Standing," was still standing by his blonde bombshell cutie in a sympathetic interview in which he gave her all the leeway in the world to wriggle out of her jaw-dropping faux pas.
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