A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire on the National Mall in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Though bystanders, quite nobly, tried to put out the fire, the man died of his injuries. As of this writing, no
A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire on the National Mall in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Though bystanders, quite nobly, tried to put out the fire, the man died of his injuries. As of this writing, no
Obamacare got off to an inauspicious start as the website that people were supposed to use to sign up for health insurance kept malfunctioning–not letting users sign in, throwing up error messages, and crashing users’ computers. To the point that hardly anyone has been able
As far as baseball in concerned, to true fans of the game, this is the best time of year. The playoffs tend to give us some of the best baseball and the most interesting games of the year. This time we have some perennial powerhouses
When we think of Roman Catholicism, many of us think of Dante and St. Thomas Aquinas, an edifice of doctrine and moral teaching, an all-encompassing church grounded in history and a sumptuous liturgy. We non-Catholics may not agree with its theology and practice, but even
One of my former pastors, Rev. Lucas Woodford, has published a book entitled Great Commission, Great Confusion, or Great Confession?: The Mission of the Holy Christian Church. It tells the tale of his attempt to be “missional,” buying into all of the church growth principles
Researchers are claiming that they have new photographic and physical evidence of the existence of the Sasquatch, a.k.a. Bigfoot. Not only that, they have sequenced Bigfoot’s DNA, which reportedly shows that the creature is a hybrid human. A consistent feature of Bigfoot sightings is that
I have had several posts about Tullian Tchividjian, the grandson of Billy Graham and pastor of the iconic Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, whose discovery of Luther’s distinction between Law and Gospel has revolutionized his life and his ministry. He has a new book out, arguably
James R. Rogers has written a post for First Things entitled “Credit the Calvinists,” in which he asks why Calvinists are thought of in terms of the doctrine of predestination and not Lutherans, who also believe in predestination. Well, as Mathew Block explains, there is
Tom Clancy, the author of The Hunt for Red October who basically founded the genre of the high-tech military thriller, died. He was just 66. In Debt of Honor, published in 1994, terrorists fly an airliner into an iconic building in Washington, D.C. (It was
Pope Francis has done another interview: Pope Francis cranked up his charm offensive on the world outside the Vatican on Tuesday, saying in the second widely shared media interview in two weeks that each person “must choose to follow the good and fight evil as
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