2008-03-21T07:37:46-04:00

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

2008-03-21T07:36:10-04:00

And here is a George Herbert poem for your Easter meditation entitled Easter. Note what Herbert does with the grisly image of Christ’s sinews stretched upon the wooden Cross, transposing that Good Friday horror into the joy of Easter morning.

2008-03-21T07:35:24-04:00

Grunewald’s “Resurrection” (By the same artist who painted the Crucifixion, above. From the deadest Jesus to the most alive Jesus.)

2008-03-20T09:11:26-04:00

We’ve been bragging about Lucas Cranach as an artist, but what about a contemporary artist from our very own Cranach community, Sarah Hempel Irani, a.k.a. Sarah from Maryland? She too is a very gifted artist who expresses her faith in her vocation. Check out her

2008-03-20T09:10:51-04:00

Here is a holiday–a holy day–we don’t have to rehabilitate, re-claim, or re-interpret, a holy day that the secular world is oblivious to, the day we commemorate Christ giving us His body and His blood in an ongoing sacrament, so as that “as oft as

2008-03-20T09:10:18-04:00

So, we have now been in Iraq for five years. Our troops did win the war part, brilliantly, in a short time. But it’s that nation building that keeps bogging us down. In hindsight, should we have invaded Iraq? And even if we shouldn’t have,

2008-03-20T09:09:49-04:00

I don’t want this to be just a Lutheran blog, so I don’t usually blog about inside-Lutheranism issues. But I appreciated how the recent “Things We Don’t Have Anymore” thread was taken over by laments that we don’t have the radio program “Issues, Etc.” anymore!

2008-03-19T07:33:59-04:00

Thanks–again–to Paul McCain at Cyberbrethren for keeping up with the Lucas Cranach boom. This achingly lovely portrait of Princess Sybille of Cleves is on sale for $4-$6 million. And Paul quotes from the catalog description. Here is just a sampling of what it says about

2008-03-19T07:27:14-04:00

Judging from the different justices’ comments on the oral arguments over Washington, D.C.’s gun ban, it appears that the Supreme Court will rule that the 2nd Amendment does indeed give individuals and not just corporate militias the right to keep firearms. The linked article said

2008-03-19T07:25:33-04:00

Science fiction author Arthur C Clarke dies aged 90. I used to read science fiction, particularly Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov, and that generation. I haven’t read any in a long time. Can any of you make any recommendations about good science fiction writers today?

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