From All the Pieces Matter: Kwame Patterson: The looting and stuff, that helps nothing. The first thing we do is we loot or own community. They marched down in Fells Point, but it wasn’t lootin...
https://oldlife.org/2020/08/07/have-the-protesters-and-city-officials-seen-the-wire/
Lots of people are throwing around statistics about COVID-19, cases, deaths, ICUs, ventilators, even percentages, a challenge for those who forgot long division. And then there are the software/p...
I wonder if the sovereignty of tribal nations is part of the Democratic Party’s platform. I am curious mainly after looking at presidential proclamations about Columbus Day. In his 2015 speech,...
https://oldlife.org/2019/10/11/what-to-do-with-columbus-day/
Tim Challies thinks Trevin Wax is sensibly moderate about observing Lent: This much is beyond dispute: Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to observe Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday, Easter, o...
https://oldlife.org/2019/03/04/flexible-on-lent-but-not-the-wire/
These days the short answer has something to do with children (or not reporting someone who had something to do with children). But for high minded ministers, what about the ministering word and ...
https://oldlife.org/2019/01/16/what-would-it-take-for-a-minster-to-go-to-jail/
Bruce Kuklick captures it superbly: As I grew close to Leo over the years, I saw more and more how much of him was shaped by hostility to social and economic status. He saidabout his… More
https://oldlife.org/2018/12/20/what-i-loved-about-leo-ribuffo/
What should we stream on Netflix or Amazon Prime? Should we do what the Puritans did (even though they didn’t have wifi)? Here’s one piece of advice on what to watch: Does this increase… M...
https://oldlife.org/2018/07/23/i-understand-the-wire-but-the-crown/
Here’s some of the dialogue I plan to include in my talk on Saturday for Mencken Day. Its title is “When America Was Great and Baltimore Knew Better.” Scene 1: Bodie: The radio in Philly…...
At a time when out-of-wedlock births are skyrocketing (forty percent in 2013) and straining urban life in major ways, Bethany Jenkins, who writes with the blessing of the Gospel Coalition and who...
https://oldlife.org/2016/10/06/when-the-gospel-coalition-needs-conservatism/
Peter Moskos was on a roll yesterday. First, he brought up the problem that police fired by one city sometimes acquire jobs in another city. The Department of Justice used to have a database to�...