The Senate passed the $1.1 trillion spending bill, ensuring that the government will not shut down. Both tea party conservatives AND populist liberals led by Elizabeth Warren opposed the measure. So did every potential presidential candidate in the Senate of both parties . (Question: The
Lori Lewis sent me this update about when the Cranach Hour of Music will be featured at the online radio station Wittenberg Nightingale: The Cranach Hour of Music is a Meditation on Mary’s Magnificat. Many and various Composers have used her words over the centuries
There are an infinite number of numbers. But there are also an infinite number of numbers between any two numbers! In fact, there are more numbers between numbers than there are countable numbers, even though both are infinite! (Mind blown yet?) George Cantor, the father
It has been estimated that 70% of Americans have inadvertently done something that would send them to prison. Another estimate is that the average professional commits three felonies a day. The problem is that government, so eager to regulate the populace for its own good,
That’s not just a little kid question but a genuine scientific mystery. In the early days of earth’s existence, according to scientists, the planet was just too hot for there to be water. After things cooled down, there still would have been no water. Comets
The Barna Group has finished a major study of people who do not go to church. (They used to be called the “unchurched”; this study calls them “churchless.”) And it has some surprises. For example, the churchless tend to be less educated than those who
Time’s Persons of the Year are the Ebola fighters. I think that’s a pretty good choice. A good many of them are missionaries, who, in the accompanying story, explain their faith and why they risk their lives to help those who are suffering. Our custom
The Senate released a report detailing the way the CIA used brutal interrogation techniques during the War on Terrorism. The report said that not only was the torture–which included waterboarding and “rectal rehydration”–immoral, but that it was ineffective in uncovering terrorist threats. The CIA strongly
Much contemporary church architecture features sanctuaries “in the round,” so that the worshippers can see each other. Traditional churches are linear, with a sequence of spaces facing the altar. (Actually, the super-traditional churches are also cruciform, with the congregation coming together in the Cross.) After
Researchers have injected brain cells from human fetuses into baby mice, giving them brains that are half human. Those “humanized mice” are much more intelligent than regular mice. Read the report, which is breezily free of moral judgment, and contemplate just how many things are
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