I am reading a book that is blowing me away: Living by Faith by Oswald Bayer, the contemporary German theologian who is sort of the Lutheran answer to radical orthodoxy. Instead of reading it all, then writing a formal review, I am so excited by
I am reading a book that is blowing me away: Living by Faith by Oswald Bayer, the contemporary German theologian who is sort of the Lutheran answer to radical orthodoxy. Instead of reading it all, then writing a formal review, I am so excited by
In Europe, owning a firearm is pretty much illegal. But a huge black market has arisen in military-grade weapons, making them easily available to criminals, gang members, and terrorists. Proving the adage that if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will own guns. (more…)
I have two more grandchildren (for a total of 11), as my daughter Mary in Oklahoma had her twins! The complication is that they came 8 weeks early. They are in a neo-natal intensive care unit in Oklahoma City. They are doing fine, considering, and
Gallup has done a study of church attendance in each state. See the results after the jump. Is there anything we can do with this? (more…)
Charles Lane discusses the big dietary reversal on cholesterol, in the course of which he recounts a hilarious scene in Woody Allen’s movie Sleeper and cites anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski on the way people tend to confuse science with religion (they put their faith in it)
Not only are we getting a new book based on the discovery of a long lost manuscript by Harper Lee. We are also getting a new book based on the discovery of a long lost manuscript by Dr. Seuss! It’s called What Pet Should I
One reason ISIS is killing so many people: the terrorists are reportedly harvesting their victim’s organs and selling them on the black market. (more…)
Kayla Mueller was a 26-year-old American who worked to help Syrian refugees. She was captured by ISIS, held hostage for 18 months, and then killed. (ISIS claimed she was the victim of an allied airstrike, but military officials deny that this was possible.) At
A federal judge stopped President Obama’s executive order that certain of the nation’s immigration laws not be enforced. The ruling was in response to a lawsuit by 26 states. The stay is temporary, pending the outcome of the case. The White House said that it
Quite a few novelists–Joseph Heller, J. D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison–have written one great novel, but then wrote nothing else, or nothing else in its league. One of those writers is Harper Lee, whose To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960, makes the bestseller lists to
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