In her memoir Dancing Through It, ballerina Jenifer Ringer tells about her Christian faith. I was struck by this line from Washington Post reviewer Rebecca Ritzel: “Coming out in a dance memoir as an evangelical Christian is nearly as rare as coming out as gay
Contrary to the critics who argue that homeschooling makes kids insular and intolerant and that we need public schools to establish social cohesion, a new study has found that college students who had been homeschooled are actually more tolerant of people with different political views
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, held to some outrageously racist and eugenicist positions. But she drew the line at abortion. (more…)
We are rightly worried about obesity, but a new study has found that being underweight is even more dangerous. (more…)
Have any of you seen the movie Noah? What is your verdict? After the jump, excerpts from a revealing interview by the ace religion reporter Sarah Pulliam Bailey with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky about what he was trying to convey in the movie, including its themes
Members of the Cross in Mt. Dora, Florida, a congregation of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, are getting tattoos of their church’s logo: (more…)
Not very, according to a new Barna study, at least for 51% of Americans. What, if anything, helps Americans grow in their faith? When Barna Group asked, people offered a variety of answers—prayer, family or friends, reading the Bible, having children—but church did not even
First you define the expression of ideas that you disagree with as a form of “violence.” Which means you are justified in using actual violence against those ideas in the name of self defense. From Pete Spiliakos, When Dissent is Equated with Violence | First
J. R. R. Tolkien made a translation of Beowulf, which is going to be published May 22! Tolkien, whose academic specialty at Oxford was Old English literature, wrote the best discussion of Beowulf–one that opened up the epic as a glorious work of literature and
More belated Annunciation thoughts. From Isaac Augustine Morales, The Annunciation and the One Ring | Dominicana Blog: In a seemingly insignificant detail in one of the appendices of his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien notes that the destruction of the
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