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The View from Mudsock Heights: How J.K. Rowling Invented the Secretary of Homeland Security

By Dennis E. Powell | Nov 29, 2010 at 10:31 PM

It is a good thing that there’s a new Harry Potter movie. I have no idea if “Harry Potter and the Beginning of the End” or “Voldemort Strikes Back” or whatever it is called is any good. The New York Times says it is, but it might be anyway. The Potter movies have been wonderful (well, except maybe for the last one).

Advent 2010: The Trans-Dimensional Life

By Ed Hurst | Nov 28, 2010 at 7:33 PM

As we enter the season where we anticipate Christ's birth, it is natural for us to contemplate the spiritual dimension of life. As you think about what it means to stand between the physical and spiritual, you won't understand it. That's okay; I don't either.

The View from Mudsock Heights: We’re Beginning an Important Sesquicentennial, and It’s an Opportunity to Learn Some History

By Dennis E. Powell | Nov 22, 2010 at 5:00 PM

We’ll soon be hearing more and more about the Civil War. Or, as it is sometimes called, the “Great Rebellion,” the “War of Northern Aggression” — in some places, it is still simply called “the War.” That’s because we’re soon to begin commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities. Some of us remember the centennial of the war. I do.

The Monocultural Plague

By Timothy R. Butler | Nov 16, 2010 at 3:35 AM

The American culture has a tendency to gravitate towards charismatic personalities. For all of the foundational principles of the separation of powers in the U.S. government, we have a bad habit of essentially handing over power to one party and then scratching our collective head when things go wrong. The same, unfortunately, is true in churches. The problem is the problem of monoculture.

The View from Mudsock Heights: The Cinnamon and Sniffles Season Has Finally Arrived

By Dennis E. Powell | Nov 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM

We’ve entered the time of year when things are different from how they look. As the skies and the woods and the yards turn to gray and brown, the things that stimulate our other senses grow stronger.

That’s especially so out here in the country.

Obama's Vindication in the Midst of "Disaster"

By Jason Kettinger | Nov 02, 2010 at 2:37 PM

The media are setting us up. This is nothing new; they have basically carried water for the Democratic Party for at least 50 years and that habit shows no signs of abating. Have you noticed that they've been telling us for a year that the Dems are going to be shelled in this election? There is more to that prediction than meets the eye.

The View from Mudsock Heights: On the Passing of Halloween As a Good and Innocent Children's Festival

By Dennis E. Powell | Nov 01, 2010 at 3:38 PM

It was five years ago, riding back on the West Virginia side of the Ohio River from Ashland, Kentucky, that I noticed it. We had been at the dedication of a memorial to Jack Kerouac at the Paramount Theatre there. What was stunning about the trip home was the festoonery. Every house, it seemed, had some elaborate Halloween decoration. Even fairly woebegone trailers could be counted on to have out front a 20-foot-high Frankenstein’s monster, well lit and kept inflated by a powerful fan.

Reformation Day 2010: Dividing Christians

By Alan Meyers | Oct 31, 2010 at 5:55 AM

It may be that all of us have “hot buttons” – things we sometimes hear other people say that irritate us or even enrage us. A hot button for professors of religion (or at least for me) is to hear someone juxtapose the word “Christian” and the word “Catholic.”

Health Saving Accounts: An Idea Too Soon Forgotten

By Jason Kettinger | Oct 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM

Elections come and go. And as those cycles occur, various big ideas also have a tendency to move from their fifteen minutes of fame into the dust bin of old ideas, left there to rot without ever delivering their promised benefits. Health Savings Accounts is one such idea that, unfortunately, has mostly been relegated to that political purgatory.

The View from Mudsock Heights: The Autumn We Happily Anticipate isn’t Always the One We Get

By Dennis E. Powell | Oct 23, 2010 at 7:59 PM

Shortly after I moved here I received one of those documents that make the e-mail rounds. It was based on the then-popular “you might be a redneck” comedy act, only each stanza of this one ended with “you might live in Ohio.”

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