I keep bragging about Patrick Henry College, where I teach and am provost, to the point of advertising. Please bear with me, but I wanted to make you aware of something some of you parents and your offspring might be interested in. Every summer we
I keep bragging about Patrick Henry College, where I teach and am provost, to the point of advertising. Please bear with me, but I wanted to make you aware of something some of you parents and your offspring might be interested in. Every summer we
The Pope’s here. Did you realize the Catholics too are torn in a worship war? You would think that a historical, hierarchical, traditional-to-a-fault church that dogmatically defines (again, to a fault) every detail of worship could avoid debates over “worship styles.” But no. In fact,
A marketing company has analyzed the different candidates’ appeal and related them to that of various products. This article describes the process for McCain. (The findings for the other candidates was given in a box in the Washington Post, but I couldn’t find it on
Europe’s right-wing scene–including its FAR right-wing scene–is undergoing some interesting changes and some new popularity. The anti-semite (that is, the anti-Jewish) parties are finding favor with Muslims! Other groups are building on the public’s unease with the Islamisation of their countries by appeals to traditional
In our ongoing series on holidays and special days throughout the year, we had better not forget this one. Otherwise, we could land in the slammer. Taxes are due! Don’t forget to mail them in! This is a day of lamentation, not only that we
George F. Will gives useful background on the worldview that looms behind Barack Obama’s contention that Americans are religious, love guns, and want border control because they are economically oppressed. A sample: The emblematic book of the new liberalism was “The Affluent Society” by Harvard
According to this article in a British newspaper, China already is the world’s dominant nation.
To show this is not just a Lutheran blog, I offer here Carl Trueman offering some semi-whimsical reflections about taking life as it comes, which he calls Zen Calvinism: Like the Buddhist movement which shares the same name, Zen-Calvinism is a school of religious thought
An article in the Washington Post on the Pope’s visit to D.C. Tuesday includes a quotation that frames a larger issue perfectly. According to Michael Sean Winters, “The Latin American church still generates culture, unlike the American church. It generates art, myth, the things that
The Republicans have one hope in the next election: The Democrats’ Achilles heel. Namely, that liberals are SO condescending to typical, normal Americans. That does not wear well for typical, normal voters. Consider what Barack Obama says, as recorded here: You go into these small
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