I haven’t had time to monitor comments very closely, but I resolve to do so. I also resolve to bring back this blog’s reputation for friendly, thoughtful, and welcoming discussions. I resolve to delete comments that are off topic. I resolve to delete personal attacks,
It’s New Year’s Eve, time for our annual review of the predictions made by the readers of this blog back on the last New Year’s Day. Check them yourself here. Though they were mostly wrong, there were some good guesses and some that were right
You Cranach readers did much better in your predictions for 2013 than the professionals did. After the jump, links to what the psychics and the pundits predicted. (more…)
What were the best books of 2013? Or, to propose a second category, what were the best books you read during the last year (whether or not they were published in 2013)? These can be in any genre or field.
Gallup has released its poll results of the top 10 most admired men and women of 2013. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton take the top spots. Some of the others may be surprising or even depressing. See the lists after the jump. Who are YOUR
After the jump, the top religion news stories of 2013, based on a poll of the Religion Newswriters Association. Strangely downplayed or omitted: the persecution of Christians in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East; the new assaults on religious liberty; the new prominence of aggressive
The manufacture of traditional incandescent light bulbs will be illegal, as of January 1. Compact flourescent bulbs (those with the corkscrew shape) and Light Emitting Diodes, which look something like the old bulbs invented by Thomas Edison, will have to replace them. You can still
It’s still Christmas, there being 12 days of that season, so thanks to Truth Unites. . .and Divides for posting in the comments to another thread this video from Rev. Hans Fiene at Lutheran Satire. You all need to see it:
I guess people are allowed to criticize gay sex after all: Phil Robertson, the patriarch of A&E’s Duck Dynasty clan who was suspended from his hit reality series on Dec. 18 following some incendiary comments about gay people, won’t be put on hiatus after all.
I would say that the most important historical development of 2013, the one that will prove most pivotal and culturally significant , is the Supreme Court decision casting out the Defense of Marriage law, which, along with various other court decisions and state laws, threw
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