If you want to comment on the presidential candidate debate while it’s hot on your mind, do so here. I’ll give you my verdict tomorrow.
If you want to comment on the presidential candidate debate while it’s hot on your mind, do so here. I’ll give you my verdict tomorrow.
Over at Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds is taking place an illuminating discussion of vocations. vocation. (Thanks to Neb for alerting me to this in his comment to our short break from politics.) A pastor asks for help in filling his different callings as pastor, father, and husband,
I don’t evaluate candidates on how well they spew out facts and statistics. That’s a common tactic in many debate leagues, but being able to do that tells me little. Presidents have staffs that tell them the name of the president of Nicaragua and garner
When Obama says that he was only 8 years old when Bill Ayers and his even scarier wife Bernadine Dohrn were active terrorists, he is calculating from the founding of the Weather Underground. But that group continued to exist decades later and did its greatest
“The Washington Post” had a rather remarkable feature, in a special Museums insert, on this painting, the Alba Madonna by Raphael. Painted around 1508 and currently in D.C.’s National Gallery, it’s considered the high point of Renaissance art and one of the greatest paintings ever
Smith college student Maggie Mertens gives her personal testimony in “I Will Follow Him”: Obama As My Personal Jesus. Excerpts: Obama is my Jesus. While you may be overtly religious and find this to be idol-worshipping, or may be overtly politically correct and just know
I enjoy reading scholars defending their theories after they have been proven wrong. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama wrote a provocative essay entitled “The End of History.” Written at a time when communism was collapsing, Fukuyama argued that democracy and free market economics have won. There
On Saturday, I was at Patrick Henry College for homecoming, meeting and greeting alumni. Someone asked me if the readership on my blog dropped during our weekend embargo on political talk. I told him that I hadn’t checked yet (it hadn’t, actually!), but that I
This blog is famed for the cordiality of its discourse, a reputation somewhat marred with some of our heated political discussion. I think our political debates are better than those at most sites, but I recognize the concern. Don’t insult the commentator you are debating.
Well, the Cubs and the Brewers are both one game away from elimination. My team, the Brewers, lost to the Phillies 5-2 after super-pitcher C. C. Sabathia gave up those five runs in the second inning. That was only his third loss in his half-season
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