Classical scholar Peter Brown has published in the New York Review of Books an excited review of Kyle Harper’s From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity (Harvard University Press). The book, which is said to break new ground in
A Lutheran pastor, Guntars Baikovs, originally from Latvia but a St. Louis seminary Ph.D., has become the Super Heavyweight champion armwrestler–in both arms–in Australia. After the jump, read a news story about him. Notice how he works in a plug for vocation: “In our society
The European Parliament shot down a sweeping pro-abortion law, which would make abortion on demand a human right and require all public health entities to provide abortions with no conscience exemptions. The measure failed for the second time. Grass roots pro-life groups reportedly mobilized public
A big legal setback for the NSA surveillance program: A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely unconstitutional. (more…)
A teenager who killed four people in a drunk driving accident was given probation after a psychiatrist testified that he was a victim of his parents’ wealth. The term for this syndrome–the bad effects of having too much money–is “affluenza,” deriving from “affluence + influenza.”
Scientists have discovered that DNA contains not just one but two languages, superimposed over each other. They knew about the one that determines how proteins are made, but the other embedded language “instructs the cell on how genes are controlled.” We sure are lucky that
A white, non-Arabic American who converted to Islam by reading jihadist sites on the internet was planning a suicide car bomb attack on the airport where he worked in Wichita, Kansas. Fortunately, his co-conspirator was an FBI agent. I’m scheduled to fly into that airport
Continuing our earlier discussion about denominations and non-denominations, we need to consider another factor: church government. Some denominations define themselves not by their theology but by the way they are governed. Presbyterians have a system of elders (presbyters, in the Greek). Episcopalians have bishops.
It’s almost too easy to make fun of us Baby Boomers. But satirist P. J. O’Rourke, who is one, has a book coming out in January entitled The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasnt My Fault) (And Ill Never Do It
The FBI has some new crime-fighting technology in its collective utility belt. FBI-employed hackers can now infect suspects’ computers with malware that will allow investigators to download whatever they might find. This process, which still requires a court order, takes wiretapping to a new level.
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