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Steve Thorngate on public life and culture

My most popular blog posts of the year

Dec 30, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Thanks for reading and commenting on my blog. Here are the ten posts people read the most this year.

Are food drives worthwhile?

Dec 16, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Are good deeds primarily about the good done for others or the good the doing does for the do-gooder?

Tony Perkins tells us what parables mean

Dec 15, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

A lot of people didn't like Tony Perkins' CNN Belief Blog post last week, and rightly so. Jesus was a free marketer, long before the concept was developed? Sure, if you say so.

Erasing the mainline

Dec 13, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Anytime you say something is new while also ignoring something old, it begs the question of what labels you use and how slippery their definitions are.

Are Iowa's conservative evangelicals irrelevant?

Dec 09, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

There's a sort of dualism that comes up when political commentators talk about conservative evangelicals: either they're powerful and unflappable advocates for the couple of causes we've always associated with them, or they don't really exist as a voting bloc at all.

Sounding nice and getting tough

Dec 08, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Tuesday's speech was the most fired up and the readiest to go that we've seen Obama in a good long while.

Links? Links.

Dec 06, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.

Brainwashed by Muppets!

Dec 05, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Note to Eric Bolling, Dan Gainor and Andrea Tantaros: Tex Richman isn't a Muppet. He's a human character, played by Chris Cooper. I know, it's hard to find time to fact-check when you're busy politicizing the Muppets.

My picks for best new music

Dec 01, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

The Century's "Christmas picks" issue is out; it includes my annotated list of best (popular) music of the year.

Links? Links.

Nov 30, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.