David Brooks Burnishes His Christian Mingle Profile -- UPDATE

First, a profession of faith.
Sort of.
From "Alone. So Alone"  "Alone, Yet Not Alone":

There is a strong vein of hostility against orthodox religious believers in America today, especially among the young. When secular or mostly secular people are asked by researchers to give their impression of the devoutly faithful, whether Jewish, Christian or other, the words that come up commonly include “judgmental,” “hypocritical,” “old-fashioned” and “out of touch.”

It’s not surprising. There is a yawning gap between the way many believers experience faith and the way that faith is presented to the world.

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And yet there is a silent majority who experience a faith that is attractively marked by combinations of fervor and doubt, clarity and confusion, empathy and moral demand...

Yeah, these kids today and their crazy ideas and jazz and reefers and sexytime.  Who knows what they'll say next!

Thankfully a reasonable "silent majority" that Mr. Brooks has made up for the occasion lurks just out of sight who are not taken in, so don't worry potential-future-Mrs.-David-Brooks: you will be safely in the sensible majority with Mr. Brooks at your side.

Under "likes" we find that Mr. Brooks appears to enjoy Catholic singer/songwriter Audrey Assad -- 

For example, Audrey Assad is a Catholic songwriter with a crystalline voice and a sober intensity to her stage presence. (You can see her perform her song “I Shall Not Want” on YouTube.) She writes the sort of emotionally drenched music that helps people who are in crisis. A surprising number of women tell her they listened to her music while in labor.

-- however only 800 words to work with, Mr. Brooks had to keep it short, so interested ladies should also know that Mr. Brooks is a committed lifestyle-asymmetriphobe who also likes

• Great Men who Change History like George W. Bush
• Big Tax Cuts because surpluses will go on forever!
• Bullies
• That Competent Republican Renaissance...which is always juuuust around the corner.
• Nice hotels.  

But he does not like:

• Jewels of Nuance.  Hates those things.  Except sometimes he likes them quite a lot.
• Norman Lear
• Imaginary Hippies
• People who ask a lot of impertinent questions about why so much of what he writes on any given day A) directly contradicts what he wrote just a short time ago and/or B) is based on "facts" he just made up.
• The Olympics
• Dirty Liberal sexytime.
• Reefers!

(Yes, I know Mr. Brooks is Jewish, but when it comes to plunging back into the dating scene, many a recently-divorced man has cast a very wide net.  And anyway, Both Sides!)

UPDATE:

Over at The Rectification of Names, citizen Yastreblyansky points out that, once again, where Mr. Brooks plants his feet and firmly stands on timeless issues depends entirely on what the calendar says and which way the wind is blowing.