Once again, the US Postal Service has denied a petition to feature on a stamp the visage of Gen. Henry Martyn Robert. We have stamps honoring Wonder Woman and other individuals who do not exist, but we cannot honor the man who wrote Robert’s Rules
Once again, the US Postal Service has denied a petition to feature on a stamp the visage of Gen. Henry Martyn Robert. We have stamps honoring Wonder Woman and other individuals who do not exist, but we cannot honor the man who wrote Robert’s Rules
Pope baptizes prominent Italian Muslim: Italy’s most prominent Muslim commentator, a journalist with iconoclastic views such as support for Israel, converted to Roman Catholicism Saturday when the pope baptized him at an Easter service. As a choir sang, Pope Benedict XVI poured holy water over
This blog has experienced a huge surge of visits, beginning on Monday, so that we are getting almost twice as many as we were getting the previous week. I don’t know why that is, but I’m very grateful and want to welcome one and all.
Grunewald’s “Crucifixion” (Note how the same artist of this utterly dead Jesus renders Him at Easter, below. You may want to save that view, as well as the other posts on the Resurrection, for Easter day.)
Even the Washington Post, like Slate below, finds itself proclaiming the Gospel today! The very stones are crying out. Read Michael Gerson’s Reasons For Good Friday, which begins with a discussion of a new book by Timothy Keller (a pastor in Manhattan who IS reaching
As a meditation for this day read “The Sacrifice” by George Herbert. Notice how Samuel Crossman alludes to this poem, as well as to Herbert’s Love Unknown in that haunting Lenten hymn My Song Is Love Unknown. Enjoy the music that goes with these links.
HT to Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller, whose district president Randal Golter, of the Rocky Mountain District, received this statement from synodical president Gerald Kieschnick and released it with his permission: “The KFUO decision transpired with my awareness but neither by my order nor at my direction.”
OK, OK, I know I was bad-mouthing “American Idol” this season when it first started, but nevertheless I have been watching and it has gotten interesting. The certain winner will be David Archuleta, who has all of the teeny-bopper votes of last season’s Sanjaya with
The leader of the former Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev now says that he is a Christian. According to that link, Ronald Reagan suspected that he was a secret Christian, even back then. Now the former Communist kingpen is talking openly about his faith. Notice GOD’S
Read why Easter resists commercialization in this article from Slate Magazine, no less, not a forum known for “getting” what Christianity is all about! HT: John Toppe
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