Happy Halloween! Happy Reformation Day! We’ll be posting on both of those holidays today. Both have reference, of course, to the really big holiday of the church year on the day after, All Saints’ Day. All the ghosts and devils were thought to come out
I’ve been reading various cultural critiques of the mess we’ve gotten ourselves into, and several put the blame on the Reformation. The Reformation gave us radical individualism! The Reformation gave us the notion that truth is whatever we interpret it to be! The Reformation drained
Halloween is America’s third favorite holiday, just after Christmas and Thanksgiving. (See the whole list after the jump.) Halloween used to be a holiday mainly for children dressing up and going trick-or-treat, but now it has been seized by adults, who also like to dress
Dr. Margee Kerr is a “scare specialist.” In addition to college teaching, she is the staff sociologist at ScareHouse, a “haunted house” in Pittsburgh, which apparently consults her scientific expertise in designing effects that scare people. The Atlantic interviews her on the question of why
With the help of modern science, pro-lifers have pretty much won the argument that a baby in the womb is a human life, there being little difference between a child in the womb and a child outside the womb. But that doesn’t mean pro-abortion zealots
For Reformation week. . .
Easter Island, known for its mysterious stone figures, is 2,300 miles from South America. And yet, DNA research has found that the ancient Polynesians had children with Native Americans. This happened between 1300 and 1500 A.D. Today, the residents of Easter Island are 10% American
Our pastor said that each one of us is a “filthy, rotten, putrid, maggot-infested cesspool of a sinner.” But he meant it in a nice way. See his Reformation Sunday sermon, drawn from John 8:31-36, on the bondage of sin and the freedom that Christ
Abortion, far from being a modern medical procedure, was rampant in the past, including in the 19th century. After the jump is an interview with Frederick Dyer, the author of a biography of Dr. Horatio Robinson Storer, the physician responsible for passing anti-abortion laws. He
The second nurse who contracted Ebola from the late Thomas Duncan in Dallas has been cured of the disease. She too was a recipient of Dr. Kent Brantly’s blood. That leaves only one case of Ebola in the United States, Doctors without Borders physician Craig
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