Last week was Banned Books Week, the American Library Association’s tribute to books they get complaints about. Now this observance is essentially bogus. None of the current books they list every year have actually been banned. Complaints are not the same as censorship. Libraries have
The New York Times published three pages from Donald Trump’s state tax returns for 1995. They show a loss of $916 million, which “could have” allowed him to pay no federal taxes for 18 years. (The story is here.) That remains highly speculative until we can see the
My cousin Bob Foote has a question for Colin Kaepernick and other athletes protesting the American flag because of how this country treats black people: During the Civil War, some 500,000 men gave their lives to end slavery. They fought and died under what flag?
We’ve blogged about a Lutheran exorcist. A new book from Concordia Publishing House offers a theological framework on the reality of demonic activity, actual case studies of people afflicted by demons who were helped by Lutheran pastors, and practical guidelines on how these malign spirits
Whoever gets elected president will oppose free trade. In fact, both parties are rivaling each other in condemning trade agreements such as NAFTA (which forms a common market with Canada and Mexico) and the not-yet-ratified TPP (which eases trade with Australia and Asian countries other
Right at a year ago, we posted Megabrewery–no, Gigabrewery about a proposed merger between the multinational company that makes Budweiser and the multinational company that makes Miller. There were lots of regulatory, anti-trust, and stockholder obstacles to that deal, but they have been overcome. Anheuser-Busch InBev will
Some Christian leaders are saying that “globalism” is the anti-Christ. Some are further saying that Christians should therefore vote for Donald Trump because he opposes globalism. For reasons I don’t fully understand, they consider national borders, protectionist economic policies, and national identity to be essential
Congress passed a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for enabling some of its citizens to carry out the attacks. But President Obama vetoed the measure, saying that it would violate the principle that sovereign nations are immune from foreign lawsuits by private citizens and
Crossway recently announced that a new revision of the English Standard Version (ESV) translation of the Bible would be its final text and that it would not be updated any further. But that decision has become controversial (especially because of an unusual rendering of Genesis
We often assume that if we could only find the right way to reach those who are opposed to Christianity that we could win them over to the Gospel. S. M. Hutchens, writing in the Touchstone blog, says that many of these folks don’t lack knowledge of
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