American political theory tends to believe that democracy is based on universal human values and is the right form of government for everyone. But, as columnist Richard Cohen says, after rehearsing the fiascos of “the Arab Spring” and other seemingly democratic movements that ended in
I remember well our teacher reading to us fifth graders the novels of Laura Ingalls Wilders, which were based on the author’s childhood on the American frontier. Her descriptions in The Long Winter of the blizzards, the isolation, and Pa surviving in a snow bank
I’m a little late on this, but I just learned the details. You will remember a few years ago when a Harvard professor announced the discovery of an ancient manuscript fragment in which Jesus refers to “my wife” and says “she will be able to
We might agree that Russia’s incursion into the Ukraine, while regrettable, doesn’t concern us. But if Vladimir Putin did the same thing to Estonia, another bordering country with a large and complaining Russian minority, we would be at war. That’s because Estonia and the other
The Islamic State/ISIS has beheaded another American and posted the video for the world to see. (more…)
Daniel J. Flynn has written a book entitled Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America. He writes about a time when “intellectuals” spoke to “the common man,” and how many in the demographic of “common man” (and woman) distinguished themselves as
Karen DeYoung and Dan Balz of the Washington Post give a litany of everything that has been going wrong in our foreign policy lately and marvel at President Obama’s admission that “we don’t have a strategy yet.” (more…)
One of my favorite TV shows has been Longmire, an extremely well-done mystery series centering around a modern-day sheriff on the high plains of Wyoming. It’s critically-acclaimed and one of the A&E Networks’ top-rated shows. So the network is cancelling it. The reason why–even though
Most people probably don’t know what they are celebrating on Labor Day–“something about Unions”–but we here at the Cranach blog have long sought to fill this holiday with meaning by turning it into a Christian feast commemorating the doctrine of vocation. The term, which just
We Lutherans don’t go in for “personal testimonies” very much, but after the jump is a “testimony” from a pastor who discovered the doctrine of vocation and tells about the difference that has meant in his ministry. (more…)
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