’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths while we Unburden’d crawl toward death. (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I. scene 1. lines 38-41) Have any greater lines ever been written about retirement? OK, it didn’t
A strong leader will rise up to solve all of our problems by sheer force of his will. We easily succumb to that kind of promise in businesses and even in churches. And even in national governments. This trust in an all-powerful leader is called
“Hey Holly, come over here, I want you to see something kind of cool, kind of neat.” (more…)
I just learned that this blog was ranked #119 in the top 300 Christian Blogs for Ministry, as determined by a complicated algorithm by ChurchRelevance.com. OK, “Cranach” is misspelled, but still, I am honored. You should see the list, which probably contains other blogs that
Do you dislike having to call up people, in real time, on the phone? Would you rather text or e-mail? The Millennial generation tends to feel that way, I learned, and I admit that I do too. Media scholar Ian Bogost tries to explain why
Even if Congress votes down the agreement with Iran to drop sanctions in return for modest nuclear restrictions, and even if Congress over-rides a presidential veto of their resolution of non-support, President Obama could still implement much of the arrangement by Executive Orders. See how
Megan Fox answers the Planned Parenthood defenders’ talking points, as promoted on a recent viral video, in the course of which I learned some new things. Planned Parenthood doesn’t give away contraceptives; it sells them. It doesn’t do cancer screenings. And although it may be
The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post both have pieces on W. B. Yeats’ great poem The Second Coming. One of the defining poems of the 20th century, Yeats wrote it back in 1919, but it seems to predict the rise of Nazi Germany,
Amnesty International, the respected human rights group, has taken up a new cause: the legalization of prostitution world-wide. Libertarians have long supported this, for, well, libertarian reasons. Now expect liberals to embrace this goal as a way of empowering women (which is how Amnesty International
Planned Parenthood is rallying, attempting to prosecute the filmmakers and getting lots of support from other liberal judges, state Attorney Generals, and Democratic lawmakers. That’s like in Ben Jonson’s Volpone, when the villain, though caught red-handed, plays the legal system so that the good guys
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