Let’s make this a day to celebrate liberty, equality, and inalienable rights–in the civil rights movement, yes, but also everywhere.
Let’s make this a day to celebrate liberty, equality, and inalienable rights–in the civil rights movement, yes, but also everywhere.
In my “in” and “out” prediction of fashions for the new year, I predicted that megachurches would be “out” and microchurches would be “in.” That was based primarily on wishful thinking. But now I see that I was right! This is what the church growth
Would you like a seminary degree? An M.B.A.? How about a Ph.D.? Or even an M.D., which should give you right to practice medicine and operate on people? You can go to school, study, and learn. Or, you can BUY these degrees. This story from
Just 750 miles from the U.S.A., the people of Haiti are enduring more horrors in the aftermath of the earthquake: Tens of thousands of people are facing a second catastrophe tonight as they struggled for survival on the devastated island of Haiti. With no food,
Thousands have died in the Haiti earthquake, maybe as many as half a million. The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has done quite a bit of work in Haiti. Here Rev. Matthew Harrison, head of Lutheran World Relief and Human Care reports that a number of
Has got to be Maddy Curtis, a 16 year-old in a family twelve kids, four of whom have Down’s Syndrome, three of whom the family adopted. She sang a beautiful, expressive rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” which blew the judges away, whereupon they advanced her
I have started to read The Chronicle of Higher Education again, and I am encouraged that my profession, at some points at least, is pulling back from the abyss. Here are some thoughts by Michael Roth, a humanities professor at Wesleyan University, on how the
The BBC has been investigating the rise of human sacrifice in Uganda: One man said he had clients who had captured children and taken their blood and body parts to his shrine, while another confessed to killing at least 70 people including his own son.
The Israeli airline El Al, though an obvious target, has never had a terrorist bring one of their planes down. What is their secret? Not heavy-handed intrusive searches. Not ethnic profiling. Not at all what you might expect. According to this interview on CNN, it’s
Anne Applebaum notes that the terrorists we are seeing lately are from the upper crust. She discusses the widow of the suicide bomber who killed the CIA agents in Afghanistan, a woman who is a well-known author in the Arab world, having written, among other
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