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April 2013

April 22, 2013
The Boy Scouts of America will propose a change to their policies that will admit...
April 19, 2013
From Fox News: BREAKING: A day-long dragnet for the second of two brothers believed to...
April 19, 2013
Patheos, which hosts this blog, is going to be making some major upgrades, including moving...
April 19, 2013
Thanks to Bob Miller for showing me this quotation from John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) from...
April 19, 2013
Those who convert to Catholicism are said to have "swum the Tiber," referring to the...
April 19, 2013
Lots of things have been happening in the news, including some new developments in topics...
April 18, 2013
Karl Barth (not to be confused with the good Karl Barth of the LCMS) was...
April 18, 2013
In the course of an article about the Roman Catholic organization Communion and Liberation, a...
April 18, 2013
Interesting story in the BBC on how American beer, once derided in the world's cultures...
April 18, 2013
Letters laced with the deadly poison ricin were sent to President Obama and a Republican...
April 17, 2013
In the sermon for the third Sunday of Easter, based on John 21:1-19, in which...
April 17, 2013
You may be all macho, sophisticated, cynical, and Stoic, but I have found a sequence...
April 17, 2013
Betsy VanDenBerghe on a conceptual shift in the way young adults are viewing marriage: The...
April 17, 2013
Comedian Jonathan Winters died.  When I was a kid and heard he was appearing on...
April 16, 2013
It looks like a terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon, killing two and injuring 100. ...
April 16, 2013
Last Sunday, Easter 3, our pastor preached on the appearance of the resurrected Jesus to...
April 16, 2013
Maria Tallchief died. perhaps the best-known American dancer in the field of ballet.  I confess...
April 16, 2013
Lars Walker, who frequents this blog, is a notable novelist who is also a  Christian,...
April 15, 2013
As you have probably heard, Rick Warren's 27-year-old son committed suicide.  That's about the saddest...
April 15, 2013
In Philadelphia, the abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial for capital murder, having killed...
April 15, 2013
A new strategy for national defense:  hope the enemy's weapons don't work. The Defense Intelligence...
April 12, 2013
Michael Dirda reviews Mr. and Mrs. Dog by Donald McCaig, hailed as "the Mark Twain...
April 12, 2013
Fareed Zakaria gives an overview of how the recently-deceased Margaret Thatcher changed the world's economies:...
April 12, 2013
Thunderstorms create bolts of lightning, as we all know.   Scientists have recently discovered that they...
April 12, 2013
This item is for those interested in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.  Everyone else may...
April 11, 2013
The estimable Anthony Sacramone has been carrying on a fascinating and helpful discussion (in two...
April 11, 2013
I didn't grow up a Lutheran, so I don't have the Baptismal sponsors or the...
April 11, 2013
As a follow-up to our ZeroTV discussion, I present to your information about Aereo, a...
April 10, 2013
As gay marriage becomes the law of the land in many jurisdictions and, very likely...
April 10, 2013
The U.S economy is still in the doldrums.  But former general and CIA director David...
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