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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:04:34 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Paper Clippings</title><subtitle>Paper Clippings</subtitle><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/atom.xml"/><updated>2012-01-30T17:46:00Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Freedom for all</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2012/1/30/freedom-for-all.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2012/1/30/freedom-for-all.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2012-01-30T17:37:58Z</published><updated>2012-01-30T17:37:58Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/289647/religious-liberty-and-civil-society-yuval-levin">Yuval Levin</a> is absolutely correct: the problem with the Obama decision on contraception coverage is not primarily about religious freedom. It is about the relationship between the state and civil society, of which the status of religious communities is just a key indicator.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Through the heart</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2012/1/24/through-the-heart.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2012/1/24/through-the-heart.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2012-01-24T20:45:41Z</published><updated>2012-01-24T20:45:41Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[The conversion of <a href="http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/162180">Sally Read</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Hell now officially frozen</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2012/1/21/hell-now-officially-frozen.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2012/1/21/hell-now-officially-frozen.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2012-01-21T23:02:56Z</published><updated>2012-01-21T23:02:56Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Yesterday President Obama lost <a href="http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/jaccuse">Mike Winters'</a> vote.]]></content></entry><entry><title>No common bonds?</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2012/1/20/no-common-bonds.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2012/1/20/no-common-bonds.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2012-01-20T14:33:38Z</published><updated>2012-01-20T14:33:38Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Belmont---Fishtown-7250">Charles Murray</a> on the end of American exceptionalism.]]></content></entry><entry><title>The right to oppress</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/29/the-right-to-oppress.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/29/the-right-to-oppress.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2011-12-29T23:12:03Z</published><updated>2011-12-29T23:12:03Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[A New York Times story on the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/us/for-bishops-a-battle-over-whose-rights-prevail.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&hp&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1325199949-d94 OeDotejz8H8jGaH/dw">religious liberty</a> controversy.]]></content></entry><entry><title>The significance of the ordinary</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/27/the-significance-of-the-ordinary.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/27/the-significance-of-the-ordinary.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2011-12-28T01:59:26Z</published><updated>2011-12-28T01:59:26Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/the-book-of-books-what-literature-owes-the-bible.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ref=books">Marilynne Robinson</a> on the relationship between literary realism and the Bible.]]></content></entry><entry><title>The myth of the new world</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/27/the-myth-of-the-new-world.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/27/the-myth-of-the-new-world.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2011-12-28T01:30:35Z</published><updated>2011-12-28T01:30:35Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[The myth of the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/democratic-enlightenment-by-jonathan-i-israel-book-review.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=enlightenment&st=cse">Enlightenment</a> lives on as the foundational narrative of  Western culture after World War II.]]></content></entry><entry><title>A true believer</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/20/a-true-believer.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/20/a-true-believer.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2011-12-21T03:45:33Z</published><updated>2011-12-21T03:45:33Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/12/the-precious-steven-pinker">David Hart</a> makes fun of Steven Pinker.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Disestablish</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/19/disestablish.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/19/disestablish.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2011-12-20T04:32:43Z</published><updated>2011-12-20T04:32:43Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/12/disestablishing-our-secular-schools">Charles Glenn</a> on freedom of education.]]></content></entry><entry><title>How did that happen?</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/14/how-did-that-happen.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2011/12/14/how-did-that-happen.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2011-12-14T19:09:14Z</published><updated>2011-12-14T19:09:14Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Unusual: the NY Times interviews <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/books/alvin-plantingas-new-book-on-god-and-science.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&ref=arts&src=me">Alvin Plantinga</a>.]]></content></entry></feed>
