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Book Club Next Week: E.J. Dionne's Souled Out
Washington Post columnist and Brookings fellow E.J. Dionne is going to be joining us next week to discuss his new book Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right.
In the book, Dionne argues that the era of the Religious Right is over
and that a new era of religious and secular "intellectual solidarity" is possible and necessary. Joining him in the Book Club will be:
Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals,
Alexia Kelley of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good,
J. Peter Scoblic of The New Republic and the Carnegie Endowment,
Richard Parker of Harvard University,
and Brian McClaren of Emergent Village and Sojourners
We're expecting a great conversation. It's not too long of a book (200 pages), so I'm planning on reading the whole thing over the weekend...
Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals,
Alexia Kelley of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good,
J. Peter Scoblic of The New Republic and the Carnegie Endowment,
Richard Parker of Harvard University,
and Brian McClaren of Emergent Village and Sojourners
We're expecting a great conversation. It's not too long of a book (200 pages), so I'm planning on reading the whole thing over the weekend...
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Please, God, let the era of the religious right really be over. :-)
February 9, 2008 12:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
December 1, 2006 at Saddleback Church:
Sam Brownback (to BHO): "Welcome to my church."
Barack Obama (moments later): "There is one thing I've got to say, Sam: This is my house, too. This is God's house."
Oh, happy, happy day؟
February 9, 2008 1:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Interesting. I think Saddleback Church is the one led by Rick Warren in California. I'd like to know what Brownback meant by welcome to my church. Actually, Rick Warren and Bill Hybels are too liberal for Brownback, so it must be a different church with a similar name.
February 9, 2008 2:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here's a link.
February 9, 2008 3:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is there an atheist as part of the discussion?
February 9, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
I know you said it was fixed, Andrew, but when you post a blog, you still get this message:
"Thank your submitting your post."
I trust you'll get to it.
Thanks for all you guys are doing!!! ♪♪♪
February 9, 2008 10:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Since it's an Andrew post, let me put in here another site comment. It's great having more attention for reader posts, and it's reasonable to keep some up longer, as thus a combination a little like the old one of blogs and discussion tables (or blogs and blogs featured by Andrew on the home page).
However, in practice, it's meant seeing the same darn blog posts at the top of the home page forever. That and my hating the first. I realize it's a fine commercial and taps into nice feelings I have about Obama, so it's not Obama's fault I don't want to see it there. But it grows tiring.
It also underscores what I hate about the new site, the feeling we've migrated from political discussion to a sort of Facebook with Josh's trademark. This is blog post that did not do what discussion table posts used to hope for (and generally failed at): a substantive post stimulating a substantive discussion. It's just a link to a video, for goodness sake.
February 9, 2008 10:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
As we've noted a few times, the recommended system isn't working. What's currently at the top of the recommended is the all time most recommended, what will eventually be there is only the most recommended blogs in the last 24 hours. That way, every day new posts and discussions will be promoted and discovered by a large audience.
February 9, 2008 11:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
There is a likelihood of showing the most-recommended at the top leading to it picking up more points, and becoming permanent.
Reverse the positions, putting "New" at top, and "Recommended" undeneath. And please find some kind of negative to apply to trash. If we have to depend on you to sort the good from bad, we might as well depend on you to recommend, too. You showed good taste, and I had no complaints.
February 9, 2008 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll promote things I like with diary rescues, but the point of the recommended system is to allow the community to choose threads it likes on a day to day basis. Nothing will every being "permanent" on the top because only posts put up in the previous 24 hours will qualify.
February 9, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
"What will eventually be there is only the most recommended blogs in the last 24 hours . . . I'll promote things I like with diary rescues." Sounds like an excellent solution, both allowing frequent change and an occasional exception for further discussion. Thanks.
February 9, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or make the list entries vanish after 48 hours, to give more of a chance for a few members' interest to spread.
February 9, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can you put all of the 'Souled Out' related posts in the book club area? I'd like to go through them easily and there really isn't a way at present. Searching the site only brings up a few, and the archives aren't working.
February 15, 2008 2:10 PM | Reply | Permalink