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June 2015

June 04, 2015
Elizabeth Scalia quotes G. K. Chesterton on what happens when the "young generation" gets old,...
June 04, 2015
In some counter-intuitive news, a Pew study has found that highly-educated women are having more...
June 03, 2015
Now that the Church of England has ordained its first female bishops, it is considering...
June 03, 2015
Transgendered individuals feel that they were born in the wrong body.  There are also people...
June 03, 2015
The dictionary has added a new word:  "eggcorn."  Read what it means after the jump. ...
June 02, 2015
I've started working through the Christian Year of Grace by Johann Spangenberg, a contemporary of...
June 02, 2015
In a victory for Sen. Rand Paul, Congress was unable to renew the Patriot Act,...
June 02, 2015
The decades-long decline in crime rates may be over.  Murders are up 180% in Milwaukee. ...
June 02, 2015
A ninth candidate has entered the Republican race for the presidential nomination, South Carolina Senator....
June 02, 2015
  The ferocious Christian author Flannery O'Connor will appear on a postage stamp.  It will...
June 01, 2015
On Trinity Sunday yesterday, I worshipped at the church of my son-in-law, the Rev. Ned...
June 01, 2015
The Justice Department is moving ahead with a new round of gun control regulations implemented...
June 01, 2015
The rock guitar-playing former governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley, announced that he is running for...

May 2015

May 29, 2015
The hype about artificial intelligence has some speculating that at some point a computer might...
May 29, 2015
About two years ago, we posted First Sleep, Second Sleep, which became the 12th most-read...
May 29, 2015
Some weeks ago, I blogged about the publication of Laura Ingalls Wilder's memoir, entitled Pioneer...
May 28, 2015
The invaluable Anthony Sacramone has put together a mashup of theological culture and Jeff Foxworthy,...
May 28, 2015
The tech world is getting excited about "Nara," a new search algorithm built on the...
May 28, 2015
The Democrats have a few pretenders, but no real options to the presidential candidacy of...
May 27, 2015
One of the many cultural influences of Christianity, observes Eric Metaxas, discussing a book on...
May 27, 2015
A first edition of Luther's classic treatise "The Freedom of a Christian," dated 1520, has...
May 27, 2015
It's getting to be Vacation Bible School season.  In 1997, 81% of churches offered them. ...
May 27, 2015
A federal appeals court struck down President Obama's use of executive orders to implement his...
May 26, 2015
At a baptism, the baptized person is given a name.  That's not all that happens,...
May 26, 2015
A motorcycle gang involved with the Waco shootout, at which 9 bikers were killed and...
May 25, 2015
Yesterday was Pentecost, commemorating the gift of the Holy Spirit.   I think part of the...
May 25, 2015
MEMORIAL DAY ORDER* Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, Washington, D.C., May 5, 1868. GENERAL...
May 25, 2015
Many of us will observe Memorial Day by putting flowers on the graves of loved...
May 25, 2015
At least 1, 340,000 Americans have died in our nation's wars, from the Revolution through...
May 22, 2015
We blogged about Rachel Held Evans, her point that Millennials can't stand the church growth...
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