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December 2016

December 30, 2016
Now it is time to look forward, to speculate about what this new year will...
December 30, 2016
2016 was a good year for Biblical archaeology, with numerous excavations and artifacts confirming Biblical history....
December 30, 2016
Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, died last week.  One...
December 30, 2016
President Obama has hit Russia with sanctions and the expulsion of diplomatic personnel in retaliation...
December 29, 2016
It's time to check the predictions we made around this time last year, something you...
December 29, 2016
The Cranach Institute is not the only news source that holds itself accountable by checking...
December 29, 2016
Odd Christmas customs department:  In Sweden, the country virtually shuts down on Christmas Eve at...
December 28, 2016
Christmas is about birth, Kevin Williamson reminds us, which is what reminds us most of...
December 28, 2016
The Religion News Association announced its top 10 religion stories of 2016.  Number one:  Donald...
December 27, 2016
It still being Christmas--there are twelve days of it, remember--we can still contemplate the inexhaustible topic...
December 27, 2016
The Associated Press polled editors and news directors to come up with the top stories...
December 27, 2016
People who are left-handed constitute 10-15% of the population.  The other 85-90% have often given...
December 26, 2016
I do not agree with N. T. Wright on "the new perspective on Paul," but he...
December 26, 2016
Marshall McLuhan, who basically invented the study of media, became an icon of the 1960's...
December 26, 2016
Today, the day after Christmas, is celebrated as "Boxing Day" in the United Kingdom and...
December 24, 2016
How fitting that we commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ around the time of the...
December 24, 2016
In a review of what sounds like an excellent book on Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Nathaniel...
December 24, 2016
If you or people who gave you presents did much of your Christmas shopping online,...
December 23, 2016
A Christmas poem written by J. R. R. Tolkien was recently discovered.  Entitled "Noel," Tolkien...
December 23, 2016
Over half of Americans will go to church on Christmas day.  Of those who don't,...
December 23, 2016
Chicago Tribune columnist Rex Huppke writes about how when he was a kid Christmas was...
December 23, 2016
Merry Christmas, everybody!  I thought I'd pass on some news about the Cranach blog and...
December 22, 2016
Let me just let Jim Priest, writing in the Daily Oklahoman, tell it: As Christmas...
December 22, 2016
Trump couldn't be stopped in the Republican primaries, or at the convention, or in the...
December 22, 2016
Federal regulators have passed a rule requiring new semi trucks to have a device that...
December 21, 2016
Ken Myers has written a wonderful post on Christmas music, emphasizing particularly how it is sung...
December 21, 2016
A truck plowed through the crowded Christmas marketplace in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring 52. ...
December 21, 2016
President Obama, evidently striking a blow for the environment before Donald Trump takes office, put...
December 21, 2016
There are four more shopping days until Christmas, time (especially if you have Amazon Prime...
December 20, 2016
In discussing why the Virgin Birth of Christ is important, James A. Rogers (Texas A&M...
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