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I can't believe I missed this critique of PowerPoint in Wired by Edward Tufte, which...

The unedited version of one of the questionsin the interview the Washington Examiner did with...

In our efforts to raise the quality of discourse in American politics, let us try...

Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been a landmark of psychology, used in education and even...

There wasn't room for everything that I said in that interview the Washington Examiner did...

My point was apparently not clear in yesterday's post about "government as a force for...

Al Mohler calls "pro-family" activists on a major blind spot: As [University of Washington] Professor...

Baseball's playoffs--generally the best games of the year--got off to an amazing start as the...

I saw a reproduction of this print a long time ago in a church basement,...

Conservative Christians used to be all over the map politically, with probably more of them...

British biologist Robert G. Edwards won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine for developing the...

OK, I'm kind of embarrassed to be posting this, but the Washington Examiner did an...

Apparently, the climate of eugenics, euthanasia, racism, and "life not worth living" was current in...

The problem with atheists is that they can't get along with each other and keep...

I haven't read it, but I've got to.   Novelist Ray Keating has started a spy,...

Arthur Penn died, the director of Bonnie & Clyde (1967).  Who besides me remembers when...

Why do federal employees generally report less job satisfaction than those in the private sector,...

There is trouble with Peter Jackson's production of The Hobbit.  Efforts to unionize the project...

Stanley Fish sheds light on contemporary politics by means of his vocation as a classically-educated...

The Washington Post is publishing excerpts from Bob Woodward's new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439172498?ie=UTF8&tag=cranach-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1439172498">Obama's Wars</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=cranach-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1439172498"...

President Obama is out-Bushing Bush: The Obama administration urged a federal judge early Saturday to...

The cover story for the October 10 issue of Time Magazine is "How the First...

A court in Canada has struck down that country's laws against prostitution, saying they are...

President Obama was asked at a recent meeting with voters why he was a Christian. ...

That's what a Pew Research study of "religious knowledge" suggests: Atheists and agnostics, Jews and...

Something seems to be brewing among jihadist terrorists, with officials in Europe and the United...

I'll be heading out to the seminary at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, for the conference on...

Those of us whose churches follow the three-year lectionary on Sunday heard  the account of...

The Obama administration is seeking the authority to wiretap the internet--including Facebook, Skype, smart phone...

Five U.S. soldiers have been charged with killing  Afghan civilians for sport.  Shame, dishonor, and...