you could've just completely skipped a bunch of wars, coups, and general bad behavior and probably ended up with allies anyway but we didn't in order to appease countries we demonstrably had the ability to kick around in e.g. the Suez Crisis

I sometimes accept the name Augsburg Catholic

Via Cajun and Creole French Catholicism

In a blow to enrollment but a victory for potential ecumenical dialogue McCormick and LSTC now each occupy a floor in the building owned by and housing Catholic Theological Union.

Of the seven ELCA seminaries two, Luther & Wartburg, sit right on the Mississippi. Trinity in Columbus is by a creek that eventually flows into the Ohio. Technically LSTC down in Hyde Park is in the Great Lakes watershed, but Chicago is allowed 3,200 cubic ft/s of that so at least some of it counts.

As the literacy rate declines, you’ll ask yourself why the quality of life continues to deteriorate in ways large and small, and in almost every instance the answer will be: because people stopped reading.

When you think about it, a bowling alley is just a miniature airstrip.

Holy Post & Jacobin is wild

The median Dem voter:

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