How would you like to watch all 522 episodes of The Simpsons? You will get your chance in a Simpsons marathon this summer. Also with a Simpsons app. (more…)
How would you like to watch all 522 episodes of The Simpsons? You will get your chance in a Simpsons marathon this summer. Also with a Simpsons app. (more…)
How the left hated Lyndon Baines Johnson back when I was in college! “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids have you killed today?” A version of Macbeth—Macbird, I believe was the title–accused him of killing Kennedy among other vile deeds. He was hated because he
You don’t need a new car, said one of the Tappet brothers on Car Talk, until your monthly repair bills exceed what your monthly car payments would be. I am approaching that point, so I’m researching new cars. Since you readers express remarkable expertise on
The American Bible Society has partnered with the Barna polling organization to study trends in the way people read and approach the Bible. The study has identified six trends. (more…)
You have probably heard about the CEO of Mozilla (makers of the open source Firefox browser) losing his job when it was learned that he had given some money to support that referendum in California a few years ago that would block gay marriage in
We’ve blogged about Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, who wrote in the London Guardian that the poetry of George Herbert helped to convert her to Christianity from atheism. She is following up that essay with a series of articles on particular poems from George Herbert, exploring them and
In answer to my question about how reading conditioned by the internet might affect the way people read the Bible, Rev. Lucas Woodford (my former pastor) pointed to this article by Robin Phillips published in Touchstone in 2012, which also gets into the various ways
. . .are NOBODY. No one in our contest predicted that the University of Connecticut would win the NCAA championship. (UConn also just won the NCAA women’s championship!) No one predicted the Final Four. That’s too bad because I worked out a special deal with
Ethnic Russians in Ukraine–especially in the eastern regions where they are in greatest numbers (though not necessarily a majority) have seized public buildings, are arming themselves, and have declared a separatist republic. All in the hopes of being annexed by Russia like the Crimea was.
Miranda Threlfall-Holmes discusses one of my favorite poems, The Agony by George Herbert. It is about how we try to measure everything, neglecting what cannot be measured; namely, sin and love. But these can be known in their depths as they come together in the
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