A reporter transplanted from Chicago to work on the Daily Oklahoman who cares nothing for football was given the assignment to find out why Oklahomans care so much about the sport. This turned into an interesting article, which I excerpt and link to after the
World Magazine has been surveying the candidate preferences of over 100 evangelical leaders. As we blogged about a month ago, their pick was Marco Rubio. Today that support is even greater, with 53% of the churchmen saying he is their #1 or #2 choice. The
You know those three unarmed Americans who took out the armed-to-the-teeth terrorist on that French train? One of them was a Missouri Synod Lutheran. What difference does that make? Not much on one level. But surely when you heard about this, if you are from
A came across an unusually lucid discussion of the legal issues that loom behind some of the religion-in-the-public square cases. As Noah Feldman explains, the courts have made a distinction between individual speech, in which pretty much anything goes, and government speech. The government also
Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Not many of those who fought in that bloody epic conflict are still around. We should salute those who are. Do you think a world war on that scale could happen again? Would
Pope Francis will allow priests to forgive the sin of abortion during the upcoming Holy Year, from December 8 to November 26. Normally, abortion incurs automatic excommunication. Bishops must give special permission before a priest can absolve a penitents of that particular sin. That abortion
Carbon dating of what has been called the world’s oldest Q’uran suggests that the manuscript may have been written before the Muhammed was born, so that the book of which this is a copy would be even older. Islam teaches that the Q’uran was delivered
Wikipedia has banned 381 of its editors for scamming and in some cases extorting small businesses and celebrities, taking money to get favorable articles approved and “protected.” (more…)
Anthony Sacramone has a quite brilliant post entitled “There Are Only Two Conceptions of Human Ethics.” He begins with an excerpt from Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, a conversation between two Soviet-era totalitarians on the difference between the Christian ethic and the “collective” ethic. Then
A mother in New Jersey left her sleeping daughter in the car for 5-10 minutes while she dashed inside a store in a suburban mall. Someone noticed, and the mother was charged with child endangerment. But the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in the mother’s
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