A Senate committee approved a “media shield” bill designed to protect journalists from having to reveal their sources and giving them protection from government surveillance. In doing so, the bill defines who gets to be a journalist. To get these protections, you have to be
A gunman killed a dozen people in a Navy office building in Washington, D.C. The shooter, who was also killed, was a contractor named Aaron Alexis. He does not seem to be an Islamic terrorist. At first, authorities said there were three gunmen, but the
Bethany Lutheran Church in Naperville, IL, has in its pew racks a laminated explanation of the liturgy. The Brothers of John the Steadfast has arranged with Bethany to make this resource more widely available. It’s posted here, and my understanding is that anyone can download
The number of unmarried couples who are just living together skyrocketed in the last decades of the 20th century. But since 2000 the cohabitation rate has stalled. Experts are saying that one reason may be that living together has become so common that it has
So should Vladimir Putin get the Nobel Peace Prize? Does this get President Obama out of the mess he was in, turning a fiasco into a victory? The United States and Russia agreed Saturday on a plan to bring Syrian chemical weapons under international control,
I’m no fan of N. T. Wright’s “new perspective on Paul” stuff, but his new book about the centrality of the Psalms for Christian worship, prayer, and worldview formation sounds really, really good. It’s called The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential. I
New York City is being plagued by a shocking crime that is being committed at ever-shifting secret locations, its perpetrators involved in a shadowy underground operation accessible only through a sinister online network. I am referring to illegal dinner parties. Now the Washington Post just
The Civil War established the principle that states are not allowed to secede from the Union. But it also established the principle that counties can secede from a state. West Virginia was formed when certain counties in Virginia refused to go along with the rest
We had a powerful sermon last Sunday on one of those “difficult” passages of Scripture, one that reminds us that Christianity is not merely about “family values”: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children
Citizens of Colorado voted for the right to smoke marijuana, but they have also voted or the right to own firearms. In a recall election, this blue state ousted two state legislators who pushed anti-gun laws. Might this be another example of a leftwing/rightwing alliance
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