April 2012
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Millennials See Christianity as "Hypocritical"
A staggering 36% of 18-24 year olds raised Catholic no longer self-identify as Catholic, according to a new study out of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center. This is in line with the Pew Forum’s landscape report on Millennials, which found that 1 in 3 who were brought up Catholic will no longer identify with the Church by age 25.
Writing in the Washington Post, Robert Jones hones...
American Education in Decline →
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Big day for college sports
With all the focus on tonight’s NFL Draft, it could be forgiven if one wasn’t paying attention to the truly momentous meetings taking place near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
For the past several months, it’s been imminent that the BCS would be re-tooling its configuration of bowl games and conference qualifiers, and today, BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock confirmed that there...
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Organic farming isn't necessarily better for the...
I eat a lot of organic food. As much of it as I can (afford). When I’ve lived in places like Berkeley and Ann Arbor, I’ve attempted to purchase as much of my produce at farmers’ markets as possible. Seasonal. Local. Sustainable. Apples in the fall from a nearby orchard, not shipped from South Africa with all of the carbon emissions necessary to transport a crate of fruit halfway...
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Link Storm
Ezra Klein in the Washington Post reports that the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) provision requiring insurance companies to spend 80% of premium dollars on actual medical care is paying off… literally.
Gary Wills, who has been dubbed the greatest contemporary Catholic intellectual in America by John Allen, offers a scathing repudiation of the Vatican actions with regard to...
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Link Storm #fun
There are just too many amazing links today. I’m overwhelming people’s news feeds, no doubt. So here’s a compilation:
The Atlantic maps out which parts of the country say “pop,” “soda,” and “Coke,” as well as other cool geographic breakdowns.
Keeping with the #whatshouldwecallme meme, which probably has a lifespan of another 4 minutes, but...
Rosie and Sophia Return to Ellen →
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Government, Done Right
One of the lesser-known provisions of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) was that insurance companies had to spend 80% of every dollar on actual medical costs. (Crazy, right?) Well the figures are out, and guess what?
It’s working.
The GOP has done an excellent job of portraying the federal government as the enemy of economic growth and personal liberty, yet this latest...
Preposterously short-sighted →
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Don't take anything personally
What biking in the rain can teach you about ministry…
Biking up New Hampshire Avenue to my parish in Silver Spring (it’s on the border between White Oak and Colesville) this morning, I couldn’t help but connect the experience of urban cycling to professional ministry.
New Hampshire Avenue heading out of Washington, DC is six-lanes pavement separated by a concrete divider....
