Imagine a movie with two of the biggest stars in Hollywood, directed by an Oscar winning director, based on a best-selling novel, and backed by the bottomless pockets of a billionaire. That’s a sure fire formula for a hit movie, right? Well, not necessarily. After
Most evangelism programs, church growth tactics, and other attempts to reach the “unchurched” concentrate on Millennials, young urbanites, college types, and the suburban middle class. But, as Robert Putnam reminds us, the demographic that is the most unchurched is the working class, the lower income
In the 13th century, so-called “portolan maps” appeared that are so accurate, they could be used in navigation today. But it has been a mystery how they were made and how, given the limits in technology of the time, they could be so accurate. (This
The movie version of Unbroken, about the trials of World War II hero Louis Zamperini, left out the account of his conversion to Christianity and his trip to Japan to forgive the ones who tortured him as a POW. But now a new version of
Our sermon for the beginning of Passiontide was Mark 10:32-45, the passage about James and John asking Jesus if they could sit on His right hand and His left when He comes into His kingdom. I had studied this text extensively for what it teaches
More on Robert Putnam and his book Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, on the class gap in raising children. The Chronicle of Higher Education tells about how Putnam came upon his thesis and conducted his research. The article also tells about the neo-traditional “Ozzie
The Heritage Foundation has an interesting report entitled The Breakdown of Where Your Tax Dollars Go. After the jump, an informative graphic. (more…)
Robert Putnam’s book Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis continues to get attention. Michael Gerson has a good discussion of its impact, excerpted and linked after the jump. The problem being documented is that whereas a new traditionalism in middle class families is paying
A review of two books on what today’s technology does to privacy quotes a useful metaphor from one of the authors. George Orwell warned against “Big Brother,” an all-knowing government that wants to track your every move. Today the bigger threat is from lots of
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared that he is running for president, the first candidate to do so. Making his announcement at Liberty University, Sen. Cruz said that he would abolish the IRS, Obamacare, and legalized abortion. Is there any way Sen. Cruz, with his in-your-face
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