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Merry Christmas [All Three of Them]

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December 23, 2019December 23, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

C.S. Lewis, in an essay called “What Christmas Means to Me,” declared that there are three Christmases that are celebrated simultaneously:  the incarnation of God the Son in the person of Jesus Christ, the merrymaking around the solstice, and the […]

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Christians May be Decreasing in Number in America, But Not Because of any ‘War’

  • Culture
December 30, 2015July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Jay Michaelson, in The Daily Beast, proclaimed on Christmas Day that there is a decrease in the numbers and influence of Christians in America, but that the “war” on Christianity is a myth.  I’m not sure the war on Christianity […]

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The Strange American Inversion of the Liturgical Year

  • Culture
January 6, 2015June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Historically in Christian liturgy, Advent was supposed to be a sort of penitential time, a little Lent leading up to Christmas, as Lent led up to Easter. Anglican hymnbooks have an Advent section and a Christmas section. Songs like “O […]

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Valentine’s Day Carols? And Other Observations

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December 25, 2014July 6, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers. As usual, what Americans call ‘The Holidays’ is an odd mix, especially in the special music now played.  What are effectively Gospel carols [especially if they sing all […]

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After a Century, Why is the San Francisco Bay Area Kicking our Butt Now?

  • California
February 2, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I was young in the early Sixties, when the cultural rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco was strong and active. Jack Smith, for Los Angeles, and Herb Caen, for San Francisco, used to feud regularly in their newspaper columns […]

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Thoughts on St. Patrick’s Day

  • Culture
March 14, 2013December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In a few days comes one of the strangest holidays in our American calendar, in which we honor a saint who actually deserves honoring or remembering, and at the same time the first major non-Protestant ethnic group to come to […]

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Christmas and Steven Pinker’s Decline of Violence

  • Culture
December 11, 2011December 23, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A few months ago biologist Steven Pinker released a paper (Article 1, Article 2) and a book claiming that despite 9/11, Rwanda, and other such events, violence is actually declining in the world. He rebukes the myth of the ‘noble […]

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Christmas Greetings

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December 24, 2010June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A Happy Incarnation, Jesus’ Birthday, and Solstice to all my readers.  And a more prosperous New Year than, for most of us, the last one. – Howard Ahmanson

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Prudes at Dinner, Gluttons in Bed

  • Culture
March 2, 2010June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Apropos of my post more than a month ago on New Year’s Resolutions (attached to refresh your memory) I just found a column by George Will on a similar theme. It seems to me that the words “sin” and “sinful” […]

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New Years Resolutions, Neuroscience, and What We Calvinists Knew All Along

  • Religion
January 1, 2010June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Greetings, beloved fans, and welcome to the decade of the teens, and farewell to the decade of the “aughts.”  Some of you are no doubt thinking about New Years’ resolutions.  For some of you your resolutions, no doubt, have to […]

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I have no idea what she meant by WHITE life. A real racist would forbid abortion for whites and subsidize it for everybody else. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/mary-miller-donald-trump-john-cornyn-white-life

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I’m pro-life (mostly) and I favor eighteen year staggered terms fo the Supreme Court myself! We need to be honest about what the Supreme Court has become. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-05-04/column-supreme-court-term-limit

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OK let’s have a pro life anti poverty left then. https://apple.news/AMWwlvcHfR1a0CgeRQgUNbA

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