Archives

August 2014

August 14, 2014
If you are worried that the U.S. is reigniting the war in Iraq, don't be. ...
August 13, 2014
Jeff Hual brings back from a few years ago a piece by Lillian Daniel, in...
August 13, 2014
The Texas Monthly ran a feature entitled "13 Famous Texans' Favorite Places."  When it was...
August 13, 2014
Robin Williams was beloved, wealthy, and acclaimed, always laughing and making others laugh.  And yet...
August 12, 2014
Sinead O'Connor is a singer perhaps best known for ripping up the pope's picture on...
August 12, 2014
Back when I was in graduate school, I took a course on American English.  We...
August 12, 2014
Hillary Clinton played the role of a loyal soldier when she was Secretary of State,...
August 11, 2014
Atheists are always invoking science, but notice how often their arguments and rhetoric use political...
August 11, 2014
My brother-in-law (Seabees, retired) told me that when we withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, we...
August 11, 2014
Sounds are vibrations of the air that are picked up by vibrations of the eardrum. ...
August 08, 2014
As Islamic State routed tough Kurdish forces (the largest pro-American group in Iraq), drawing near...
August 08, 2014
We have the post-moderns and the post-Christians; now we have the post-Protestants.  Referring mainly to...
August 08, 2014
Psychologists have used a 40-question test to diagnose the condition of narcissism, a syndrome of...
August 08, 2014
Russia is responding to our sanctions and expressing its leader's contempt for what he considers...
August 07, 2014
Last Sunday's sermon was a great take on the feeding of the five thousand.  Pastor...
August 07, 2014
The corporate tax rate in the United States is 35%, the highest of all developed...
August 07, 2014
A group of Russian criminals has collected 1.2 billion user names and passwords.  And since...
August 06, 2014
  Two Sundays ago, the sermon was on these parables from Matthew 13: 44 “The kingdom...
August 06, 2014
An Australian couple hired a poverty-stricken woman in Thailand to be the surrogate mother of...
August 06, 2014
After lamenting the state of summer movies, we finally saw one that was just right...
August 05, 2014
Roman Catholics don't believe in divorce.  But they do allow for annulments.   These involve ecclesiastical...
August 05, 2014
An urban legend is one of those fascinating and sometimes inspiring anecdotes that are presented...
August 05, 2014
Progressives are outraged at the power over the government wielded by big corporations.  But, in...
August 04, 2014
All Christians, including "non-liturgical" Christians, worship with a liturgy, in the sense of a predictable...
August 04, 2014
One of the  latest YouTube "challenges" is to rub alcohol on yourself, set yourself on...
August 04, 2014
An outbreak of ebola, the horrific viral disease, has killed over 700 people in Africa. ...
August 01, 2014
Carl Trueman argues that Christianity is going into a kind of cultural exile, and he...
August 01, 2014
The internet, newspapers, and television news have been showing this photograph of Israel and Gaza...
August 01, 2014
We have gone from one foreign policy extreme (waging wars to impose democracy on people...

July 2014

July 31, 2014
The radical Iraqi Muslims that call themselves the Islamic State, a.k.a. ISIS, blew up a...
Related posts from Cranach
Evangelical
Monday Miscellany, 6/8/26
Cranach
Evangelical
Monday Miscellany, 6/1/26
Cranach
Evangelical
The Limits of War
Cranach
Evangelical
Monday Miscellany, 5/11/26
Cranach
POPULAR CONTENT