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December 2011

December 28, 2011
The Economist tells how Luther, in effect, used social media: Although they were written in...
December 28, 2011
Anne Hendershott traces a significant stream of postmodernist scholarship over the last decade that amounts...
December 27, 2011
I don't like to blow my own horn.  I don't even like to call attention to ...
December 27, 2011
Newt Gingrich is on his third marriage, but the Roman Catholic church, which does not...
December 27, 2011
To be released this time next year! HT:  Paul McCain
December 26, 2011
Our church was not one of the 10% of American churches that cancelled Sunday services...
December 26, 2011
Because they weren't organized enough to get the petitions signed to get on the Virginia...
December 26, 2011
An interesting article in Harper's Magazine by MIT physicist Alan Lightman on how the "multiverse"...
December 23, 2011
I would like to wish all of you readers--conservatives and liberals, Lutherans and non-Lutherans and...
December 23, 2011
Last time Christmas fell on Sunday it came out that a number of churches had...
December 23, 2011
I continue my custom of offering you a Christmas poem, poetry being "a trap for...
December 23, 2011
The online radio program Issues, Etc., is planning a marathon of sacred Christmas music beginning...
December 22, 2011
Greg Forster, in the context of a discussion about Europe's economic woes, makes some fascinating...
December 22, 2011
What do you think of Newt Gingrich's expressed plan, if he is elected president, to...
December 22, 2011
An interesting article in the British business publication Financial Times about how many companies--including high-tech...
December 21, 2011
Michael Gerson gives the most lucid explanation I have found for what the Higgs boson--a.k.a....
December 21, 2011
President Obama on himself, speaking in an interview with 60 Minutes: “The issue here is...
December 21, 2011
Aaron Lewis, who hung out a couple of times with Christopher Hitchens, pointed out that...
December 21, 2011
Columnist Ezra Klein introduces a useful concept, the "last chapter problem": In March, the historian...
December 20, 2011
Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright who spent 5 years in prison for undermining the communist...
December 20, 2011
There are all kinds of questions about whether Romney, or Gingrich, or Perry, or whoever,...
December 20, 2011
The North Korean "dear leader" Kim Jong-Il is dead.  His son, twenty-something Kim Jong-Un, has...
December 19, 2011
What I don't understand is why the militant secularists are expending so much energy to...
December 19, 2011
American politics is polarized.   Our government is in a state of paralysis.  Conservatives, liberals,...
December 19, 2011
Christopher Hitchens, one of the "new atheists," has died of cancer at age 62.  An iconoclast...
December 16, 2011
Yesterday the war in Iraq officially came to an end.  The American flag in Baghdad...
December 16, 2011
Newt Gingrich grew up Lutheran!  So did Ron Paul.  So did Michele Bachmann.  And Jon...
December 16, 2011
Despite the current economic doldrums, a new business is booming:   the tattoo removal industry. ...
December 15, 2011
Issues, Etc. host Todd Wilkens has posted a provocative point on his Facebook page on...
December 15, 2011
Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2011 is, once again, not a person but...
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