President Obama’s approval ratings are plummeting, and Democrats’ prospects for the House and Senate look bleak. And yet in presidential polls, Hillary Clinton still beats all Republican candidates by far. So a substantial demographic does not like President Obama but does like Hillary Clinton. These
The most embarrassing Cranach post. . . .Asking your help in identifying the 5 best posts, whereupon no one could think of ANY! (Well, towards the evening there were a few.) So let’s approach this in another way. Here are the top 20 posts on
In a column on efforts to help young people in the Dominican Republic, Michael Gerson finds both from an aid worker and a social scientist that the biggest need of troubled children is love. I’m intrigued by how the social scientist defined it. (more…)
In some creative campaign finance shenanigans, some Democratic candidates have been giving financial and advertising support to Republicans whom they think would be easier to defeat than their primary opponents. This includes funding attack ads casting doubt on whether the frontrunner is conservative enough, all
I’ll soon be going on my second year of this blog being hosted at Patheos, where we’ve built up our audience considerably and been bringing in some income to pay the bills. Patheos is celebrating its 5th year anniversary and, in conjunction with that, is
Being a Christian is not the same as being a conservative, and being a conservative is not the same as being a Christian. Two prominent conservative columnist, George Will and Charles Krauthammer, have come out as atheists, though of the sort that “respect religion and
No, it wasn’t aliens who moved those massively huge blocks for the Pyramids. An ancient drawing shows builders dragging a monument on a sledge with someone pouring water in front of it. Egyptologists interpreted that as some kind of purification ritual. But scientists have discovered
Some of you know Rev. Eric Andrae, a Lutheran pastor of note in Pittsburgh. He sent me an e-mail saying, “I have a very good friend who’s a local country musician of some renown,” Slim Forsythe. “we both just read your book Honky-Tonk Gospel, and
The arch-liberal United Church of Christ, which approved of gay marriage back in 2005, is suing North Carolina for infringing its religious liberty by not allowing pastors to perform same-sex weddings. (more…)
The Supreme Court has ruled that public meetings, including those involving local governments, may feature distinctly Christian prayers, including those that are in the name of Jesus. (more…)
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