Stephen Colbert, who took over for David Letterman on The Late Show last week, is an iconoclastic comedian. But he is also a devout Catholic. When he was 10 years old, he lost his father and two brothers in a plane crash. He talks about
Stephen Colbert, who took over for David Letterman on The Late Show last week, is an iconoclastic comedian. But he is also a devout Catholic. When he was 10 years old, he lost his father and two brothers in a plane crash. He talks about
Many European countries are dismayed at all of the refugees pouring in from Syria and other war-torn Islamic countries. But Germany is welcoming them, going so far as to promise to take in 800,000 of them. So why is that? Because Germany has the lowest
We have posted about each candidate who gets into the presidential race, so we will post about those who drop out. Rick Perry has ended his campaign. A lot more need to do so is Republicans are going to coalesce around someone other than Donald
In our Bible class last Sunday, in which we are studying the hymns of Martin Franzmann, this Scriptural text came up: “For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has
Today is September 11, aka 9/11, a date that still resonates in infamy. Where are we as a nation 14 years after those terrorist attacks? We have waged two wars, more or less inspired by our anger over 9/11. We killed Osama bin Laden and
Senate Democrats rallied behind President Obama’s plan to lift sanctions on Iran in return for its promises to slow down its nuclear program. Enough senators supported the agreement to sustain a presidential veto against Congressional attempts to stop it. UPDATE: You have got to read
The German Lutheran journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto, a friend of mine, has written Duc: Triumph of the Absurd, a Reporter’s Love for the Abandoned People of Vietnam, a memoir of his days as a Vietnam war correspondent, telling of his affection for the Vietnamese people, describing
Jonathan Aigner, a card-carrying millennial concerned for the growth of the church, says that the decline of contemporary worship–did you know it was in decline?–is due to three reasons. I give those after the jump, but go to the whole post to see how churches
Novelist and former Time editor Michael Walsh has published a new book entitled The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West. It’s about how critical theory–the notion that all cultural and linguistic expressions are to be “deconstructed” as
One would think that the more prey animals–zebras, antelopes, rabbits, etc.–there are, the more predators there would be, since a larger food supply should support a larger population of animals that eat them. But it doesn’t work that way. According to a new study, predator
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