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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The American South: plus ça change?

November 3, 2009

I noticed this quote from Marbury via Andrew Sullivan in a post entitled “the past isn’t even past”:

A fairly stunning piece of data:
Obama’s favorability-unfavorability rating in the South is 28-67, while it is 68-23 in the rest of the country.

However, I can’t help also noticing that in the same set of figures from [...]

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MacCulloch’s History of Christianity

November 3, 2009
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I’ve just finished reading Diarmaid MacCulloch’s massive History of Christianity . The TV series based on this begins this Thursday on BBC4. I’m not going to try to review it, since I would guess there is only a small band of people competent enough to do so, but I do want to commend it. If [...]

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Biblical Studies Carnival 47 is up

November 3, 2009

Congratulations to Kevin on another job well done. I am relieved to see another organised by topic. I intend to make it three in a row next month. I’m also relieved to see someone else make the same typos as me – turning Chris into Christ. This time it’s Chris Heard who gets the messianic [...]

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