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December 2014

December 17, 2014
One of my favorite Cranach paintings is "Christ Blessing the Children."  See a discussion after...
December 17, 2014
Re-building the institution of marriage requires changing the no-fault divorce laws, argue Thomas Farr and...
December 17, 2014
Contrary to the conventional wisdom that big business is conservative, big business actually loves big...
December 16, 2014
A copy of the 1623 folio of Shakespeare's collected plays has been discovered as part...
December 16, 2014
Is it better to be a Tiger mother or an Elephant mother?  That is, a...
December 16, 2014
An Islamic terrorist took over a coffee house in Sydney, holding 17 hostages for 16...
December 15, 2014
Pope Francis, comforting a boy whose dog had died, said that "One day, we will...
December 15, 2014
Now that marijuana is being legalized, the nascent industry is following the pattern of Big...
December 15, 2014
The Senate passed the $1.1 trillion spending bill, ensuring that the government will not shut...
December 13, 2014
Lori Lewis sent me this update about when the Cranach Hour of Music will be...
December 12, 2014
There are an infinite number of numbers.  But there are also an infinite number of...
December 12, 2014
It has been estimated that 70% of Americans have inadvertently done something that would send...
December 12, 2014
That's not just a little kid question but a genuine scientific mystery.  In the early...
December 11, 2014
The Barna Group has finished a major study of people who do not go to...
December 11, 2014
Time's Persons of the Year are the Ebola fighters.  I think that's a pretty good...
December 11, 2014
The Senate released a report detailing the way the CIA used brutal interrogation techniques during...
December 10, 2014
Much contemporary church architecture features sanctuaries "in the round," so that the worshippers can see...
December 10, 2014
Researchers have injected brain cells from human fetuses into baby mice, giving them brains that...
December 10, 2014
The Chinese government is forbidding the use of puns in state-supported media.  Alexandra Petri objects. ...
December 09, 2014
When we blogged about the Wittenberg Nightingale,  the all-Lutheran online radio channel, the number of...
December 09, 2014
The great figure of Advent is John the Baptist.  We think of him as that...
December 09, 2014
Conservatives are skeptical about the government and look to the private sector to solve our...
December 09, 2014
This year we will have a college football championship playoff, eliminating all of that controversy...
December 08, 2014
In the earlier days of this blog, we were renowned for the high level of...
December 08, 2014
Reformed pastor Peter Leithhart says that Protestantism requires a high view of the sacraments.  He...
December 08, 2014
Incumbent Senate Democrat Mary Landrieu lost her run-off election in Louisiana to Republican Bill Cassidy. ...
December 08, 2014
Al-Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute an American journalist they held captive, so American commandos...
December 05, 2014
The multi-talented Lori Lewis has launched an internet radio channel devoted to Lutheran music.  That...
December 05, 2014
We've talked a great deal about the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, at...
December 05, 2014
The United States no longer has the world's largest economy.  China just passed us.  Ever...
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