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Faith
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WSJ Op-Ed: The Incarnation Changes Even Nonbelievers
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: The Incarnation Changes Even Nonbelievers, by Robert Barron (Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona-Rochester, MN): G.K. Chesterton once observed that even those who don’t believe in the doctrine of the Incarnation are different for having heard it. Christians celebrate this transformative revelation from Dec. 25, Christmas Day, through Jan. 6, the…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Projected Declines Of NYU & Cornell In 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings Highlight Impact Of New Methodology's Shift From Quality To Quantity Ilya Shapiro (Manhattan Institute), Learning From My Lived Experience With Academic Intolerance Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Hard Questions About Experiential Learning, Legal Education, And The ABA…
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NY Times & WSJ Book Reviews: Zero At The Bone — 50 Entries On Faith, Death, And Suffering
Hamilton Cain (Author, This Boy’s Faith: Notes From a Southern Baptist Upbringing), ‘Zero at the Bone’ Review: Writing Against Darkness (reviewing Christian Wiman (Yale Divinity School), Zero at the Bone: 50 Entries Against Despair (2023)): The challenge of measuring the commands of religious belief against the unavoidable state of mortality and suffering goes back at…
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Keep Complaining to God. Just Don’t Ignore Him.
Christianity Today Op-Ed: Keep Complaining to God. Just Don’t Ignore Him., by Drew Dyck (adapted from Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulness Change Everything (2023): If you’re a Christian for long enough, you’ll notice that something sad starts to happen. A lot of the people who started the journey with you end up…
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Inazu: GenXers And Evangelical Culture
John Inazu (Washington University; Google Scholar), GenXers and Evangelical Culture: Today’s post is a Q&A with Jon Ward, the chief national correspondent at Yahoo! News, and the author of Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation (2023). John Inazu: Testimony is a very personal book that also enlists your journalistic gifts and training. Can you describe…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: California Bar, 2023 Bar Exam Results For California Law Schools California Bar, 2023 Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools Law.com, After SCOTUS Affirmative Action Victory, Edward Blum Is Suing Law Firms Over Their Diversity Programs Raymond Brescia (Albany), Teaching To The Tech: Law Schools And The Duty Of Technology Competence Swethaa Ballakrishnen (UC-Irvine), Rethinking…
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Was Jesus Born In Bethlehem For Tax Reasons?
Steven Chung (Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), Was Jesus Born In Bethlehem For Tax Reasons?: Chapter 2 of the Gospel of Luke states that Caesar Augustus issued a decree that the world should be taxed based on their ancestral lineage. So Joseph and Mary traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem because Joseph was descended from King David. There,…
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NY Times Op-Ed: There’s No Better Time To Be A Catholic Than Christmas 2023
New York Times Op-Ed: No Better Time to Be a Catholic, by Ross Douthat: When I began writing a column for this newspaper, I was by no means its first Catholic columnist, but I was probably the first representative of conservative Catholicism, a partisan of both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, to…
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WaPo Op-Ed: You Don’t Have To Be A Believer To Celebrate The Christmas Revolution
Washington Post Op-Ed: You Don’t Have to be a Believer to Celebrate the Christmas Revolution, by E.J. Dionne Jr.: [H]ere’s a call for celebrating Christmas as a reminder of how much religious and secular people have to teach each other — and how developments across our intellectual and spiritual barricades helped humanity move forward. The…
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NY Times Op-Ed: Christmas, God, And Faith
New York Times Op-Ed: ‘The Miraculous Is Essential’: A Conversation About Christmas, God and Faith, by Nicholas Kristof: This is the latest in my occasional series of conversations about Christianity, aimed at bridging America’s God gulf. Previously, I’ve spoken with the Rev. Timothy Keller, President Jimmy Carter, Cardinal Joseph Tobin and others. Here’s my interview with Beth Moore, an influential evangelical writer…
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WSJ Op-Ed: You Don’t Have To Be Religious To Feel The Awe Of Christmas
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: You Don’t Have to Be Religious to Feel the Awe of Christmas, by David DeSteno (Northeastern; Host, How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality): It’s the Christmas season, and that means I’m looking forward to going to church. On its own, that might not sound too surprising: Half of Americans plan to…
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WSJ Editorial: In Hoc Anno Domini
The Wall Street Journal has published this wonderful editorial each Christmas since 1949, In Hoc Anno Domini (In The Year Of Our Lord): When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: New York Sun, ‘I’m Not Responsible For Charlie’s Situation:’ Wendi Coldly Dismisses Frantic Donna After Charlie's Conviction In Dan Markel's Murder Mike Spivey, Projected 2024-25 U.S. News Rankings Of All 196 Law Schools Ben Sasse (President, University of Florida), Tobacco Company CEOs, Ivy League Presidents, And Race WTGC, Will Wendi Adelson Get Tried…
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NY Times Op-Ed: War And Faith
New York Times Op-Ed: The Theological Truth We Must Press During War, by Esau McCaulley (Wheaton College; Author, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South (2023): I am ordained, but I do not pastor a church. Still, I am often invited to be a guest speaker or…
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NY Times: The Rarest Of Nobel Laureates In Literature — A Man Of Faith
Following up on last Sunday's post, New York Times: The Mystical Catholic Tradition of Jon Fosse: New York Times, Jon Fosse Wants to Say the Unsayable: The prolific Norwegian is the rarest of recent literary prize winners: an author and playwright in thrall to the divine. When the Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse was 7 years…
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Jewish 1L Asked To Add Menorah To Holiday Display. Law School Instead Removed Christmas Tree.
National Post, Student Request to Display Menorah Prompts University of Alberta to Remove Christmas Trees Instead: A University of Alberta law student says she’s frustrated after her request to display a menorah in a study space led the faculty to instead remove Christmas trees. Rachel Cook said she approached staff at law student services Tuesday…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Miami Herald, Donna Adelson's Dark Fall: From Matriarch Of 'Five-Star Family' To Murder-For-Hire Tallahassee Democrat, Dan Markel Murder Update: Charlie Adelson Gets Life Sentence But Maintains His Innocence; Donna Adelson Pleads Not Guilty And Is Admonished By Judge New York Sun, Donna Adelson's Attorney In Dan Markel Murder Case Seeks Her Release Due…
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NY Times Op-Ed: The Power Of Faith At 1:00 A.M.
New York Times Op-Ed: The Mystical Catholic Tradition of Jon Fosse, by Christopher Beha: I came to the work of the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse — who receives the Nobel Prize in Literature this week — by way of “,” a novel cycle that began appearing in English just a few years ago. I’d been…
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WSJ Exhibition Review: God And Mammon At The Morgan Library
Wall Street Journal, Religion and Riches at the Morgan Library: God and Mammon take center stage in two exquisite exhibits at the Morgan Library. “Morgan’s Bibles: Splendor in Scripture” highlights the collector’s devotion to the Bible and his Episcopal faith as manifested in a sumptuous selection from his library’s holdings. “Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality”…
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Universities Must Preserve American Values: Freedom, Faith And Self-Governance — Leavened With Humility
The Messenger Op-Ed: Universities Must Preserve American Values, by Jim Gash (President, Pepperdine University): It seems every week produces another story of intolerance, hate, or worse on college and university campuses across the nation. As society rightfully expresses concern about students engaged in such behavior, it is past time for higher education administrators to take…