What struck me about the controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s inflammatory anti-American and anti-White preaching is that in the television coverage I saw the African-American pastors and laity who were asked about it seemed to basically agree with him! He does articulate what lots of
The posts below are too pessimistic and nostalgic to leave by themselves for Holy Week, so I will give you something better to contemplate from a great Christian writer who is strangely not known as well as he should be by Christians today: “Not only
Here is an amusing feature, by Anna Jane Grossman, of things that have become or are fast becoming obsolete. She adds a list of such things as: Carbon paper Wite-Out Lickable stamps Printer paper with holes on the sides Walkmans Tie tacks Dial-up Sound of
is collapsing. So the government is working to bail out the big investment firms that have made easy credit possible. It seems that everyone is a free market capitalist during good times, but once a downturn happens, everybody wants to state to intervene into the
Supreme Court to Review FCC Ban on Profanity. This refers to the ban on bad words on broadcast television, which has already been loosened quite a bit. I wager that the court will open the floodgates.
Something our pastor said in church yesterday threw into high relief what we mean by “Passion Week.” It isn’t about our passion. It’s about Christ’s passion. That is to say, His feeling and His suffering, His zeal to accomplish our salvation, His passion for us!
Today is another holiday that we should reclaim: St. Patrick’s Day. Instead of just making it about Ireland, let’s make it about St. Patrick and what he did. Let’s take the opportunity to honor him by honoring all missionaries. St. Patrick was one of many
We posted questions some time ago about Trinity United Church of Christ, which Barack Obama attends, but it turns out his pastor Jeremiah Wright had the practice of cursing America, condemning white people as a race, honoring the anti-semitic Black Muslim Louis Farrakhan, blaming America
Mollie Ziegler pens a useful and learned survey of the history of atheism at Modern Reformation . The main point: There is nothing new or modern or enlightened about atheism, which has ALWAYS been contending against the faith. HT: Anthony Scaramone at First Things.
The report that the Pope is set to rehabilitate Martin Luther, which we blogged about recently, turns out to have been greatly exaggerated; indeed, not true. M.Z. Hemingway reconstructs the shoddy journalism behind how the story got started.
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