Justin Taylor, the publisher at Crossway and a notable blogger, is running a series on “novels that every Christian should consider reading.” He asked me to write about the great American novel that is Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain fan that I am, I was glad
I was 12 years old when I watched Lyndon Johnson’s campaign ad that showed a little girl picking daisies followed by the mushroom cloud of a nuclear blast. Even at the time, I understood the message: Don’t vote for that extremist Barry Goldwater! He will
In our postmodern times, morality is supposed to be relative. To speak of “good” and “evil” is to be absolutist and retrograde. But now the atrocities of the Islamic State/ISIS have people recognizing evil once again. (more…)
Rep. Paul Ryan (R, Wisconsin), in his new book entitled The Way Forward, discusses “the space between the individual and the state” and says that Progressives keep wanting to fill that space with the government. (more…)
DNA evidence may have solved the mystery of Jack the Ripper, the serial killer who brutally murdered 11 prostitutes in Victorian England. A shawl that was reportedly found on the body of one of his victims had blood that has been identified as having come
Henri Matisse was one of the great artists of the 20th century. What most people do not know, however–and what exhibitions and art critics tend to ignore–is that Matisse underwent a dramatic and life-changing conversion to Christianity. (more…)
Remember the Badr Brigade, the vicious jihadists that were the bane of our existence in the Iraq War? Remember Iran, the vicious jihadists that have been the bane of our existence ever since the hostage crisis during the Carter administration? Well, the Badr Brigade and
President Obama had said that since Congress won’t pass immigration reform, he will push it through using executive action. Though he had said he would do so by the end of the summer, he has decided to wait until after the midterm elections in November.
Scholars have discovered a 1,500-year-old papyrus from ancient Egypt that contains a remarkable Christian confession, including an early description of Holy Communion. Reportedly, the writing was rolled up in an amulet, a Christian version of the amulets-with-protection-spells worn by pagan Egyptians. The article on the
The one “dove” among the current presidential contenders has been the libertarian, tea-party favorite Republican Senator Rand Paul. A few weeks ago, he published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that criticized both the Democrats and his fellow Republicans for their “interventionist” foreign policies.
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