Al-Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute an American journalist they held captive, so American commandos launched an attempt to rescue him. The operation failed. The captive and a South African hostage were killed. (more…)
Al-Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute an American journalist they held captive, so American commandos launched an attempt to rescue him. The operation failed. The captive and a South African hostage were killed. (more…)
The multi-talented Lori Lewis has launched an internet radio channel devoted to Lutheran music. That is to say, to 16th and 17th century sacred music with lots of hymns, chorales, and Bach. The channel is called Wittenberg Nightingale, after an epithet for Luther from the poet
We’ve talked a great deal about the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, at the hands of a police officer, whom a grand jury refused to indict after discovering facts not included in the earlier media reports. Now in New York City, a grand
The United States no longer has the world’s largest economy. China just passed us. Ever since Ulysses S. Grant was president, the American economy has been number one. Now we are number two. (more…)
Sony Pictures will soon release a comedy about two reporters who are enlisted to assassinate North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. The movie, entitled The Interview, combines fiction with non-fiction, bringing the venerated “dear leader” of the notoriously touchy Communist country into a silly comedy
I have published a new book, one that I collaborated on with Matt Ristuccia, an evangelical pastor in Princeton. It’s called Imagination Redeemed: Glorifying God with a Neglected Part of Your Mind. The imagination often gets mystified these days with its association with the arts
Willie Osterweil (a white punk rocker) has written a defense of the looting in Ferguson, Missouri. Read it, excerpted and linked to after the jump. You might also take a look at Time‘s article “In Defense of Rioting.” How would you answer these arguments? (more…)
An agency has compiled a list that ranks the world’s nations according to how corrupt they are. Read this for the story and see the list of the top and bottom 20 after the jump. (Guess where the USA is.) (more…)
Broadcast television is facing stiff competition from services such as Netflix, which is now streaming original programming. The traditional networks are complaining that Netflix, like HBO, can present taboo content and language that they can’t. Now Netflix is presenting uncut, uncensored material that NBC found
Most arguments for abortion have treated it as a tragic but sometimes necessary choice, something regrettable. The goal should be to make abortion “safe, legal,” but also “rare.” But tolerating a morally questionable practice is no longer enough; now that practice must also be affirmed
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