Archives

December 2012

December 27, 2012
Here is the choice that Congress has, as we approach the "fiscal cliff" next Tuesday,...
December 27, 2012
The Associated Press has released the results of the annual poll of American editors and...
December 26, 2012
It's still Christmas and will be for a total of 12 days.  Jim Denney reminds...
December 26, 2012
An appeals courts has given a victory to Christian colleges suing over Obamacare's requirement that...
December 26, 2012
  France is also fighting a battle against gay marriage.  But religion and politics are...
December 25, 2012
Dear readers, I wish all of you the joy of the season and every blessing...
December 25, 2012
The Wall family Christmas of 1904 has been preserved on the equivalent of an early...
December 24, 2012
The real Santa Claus, thought to have been a participant at the Council of Nicaea...
December 24, 2012
Go to Lutheran Public Radio for round-the-clock Christmas music, starting today.  Here is the ad...
December 24, 2012
In his continuing series that we've been blogging about exploding the myth that Christmas was...
December 21, 2012
Not with a bang, but a whimper.  (To adapt T. S. Eliot's lines from "The...
December 21, 2012
In another in his series on the historical roots of Christmas (see our post on...
December 21, 2012
Christians typically every year take up the cause of keeping Christ in Christmas.  The American...
December 21, 2012
In the fiscal cliff negotiations, President Obama wants to renew the Bush tax cuts for...
December 20, 2012
Pastor Joseph Abrahamson has started a fascinating series on why the church celebrates Christmas on...
December 20, 2012
Another level of New Age syncretism:  Going to a Star Wars filming location to await...
December 20, 2012
Time Magazine has proclaimed Barack Obama as the Person of the Year for 2012.  Here,...
December 20, 2012
As is our custom, after Time names its Person of the Year, we discuss our...
December 19, 2012
 Philipp Melanchthon was the great Renaissance scholar of the humanities who became Luther's right hand...
December 19, 2012
Income taxes for everyone are not the only taxes that will jump up, should we...
December 19, 2012
The Senate finally has an African-American member.  He is a conservative Republican.  South Carolina Gov....
December 18, 2012
The British periodical The Spectator argues that 2012 was the best year ever: It may...
December 18, 2012
Eastern Orthodox folks celebrate Christmas on a different day than we Western Christians do.  They...
December 18, 2012
The Electoral College cast its ballots on Monday.  The results won't be official, though, until...
December 17, 2012
On another, appropriately escapist note, who has seen the Hobbit last weekend?  We plan to...
December 17, 2012
The London Daily Mail has published a grim list of other American school shootings, in...
December 17, 2012
The London Daily Mail has published a pretty extensive profile of Adam Lanza, who killed...
December 14, 2012
Mass murder of little children! Matricide! Unfathomable evil. What can be said about the school...
December 14, 2012
Scotland is gearing up for a referendum, to be held in the Fall of 2014,...
December 14, 2012
E. J. Dionne's tribute to the late, great Dave Brubeck contains some important insights into...
Related posts from Cranach
Evangelical
Ascension Day and the Sacraments
Cranach
Evangelical
The Social Imaginary of Our Secular Age
Cranach
Evangelical
Worldview vs. Social Imaginary
Cranach
Evangelical
Monday Miscellany, 5/11/26
Cranach
POPULAR CONTENT