While we argue about a guaranteed minimum wage, Switzerland is considering a guaranteed minimum income. The Swiss will vote in a national referendum on whether or not to give themselves a guaranteed income of $33,600 per year, whether they work or not. (more…)
“Post-Christian” does not mean the same as “non-Christian,” observes John O’Sullivan. A “post-Christian” society is one that seeks to maintain the cultural legacy of Christianity–such as human rights, benevolence, the institution of the family–after the religious beliefs that created and supported this legacy have been
“Let all mortal flesh keep silence” is a hymn about Holy Communion. But now it keeps showing up as a Christmas carol! That’s how it’s presented in Christmas concerts, holiday recordings, and on many of the renditions on Youtube. But it is “an ancient chant
The “Dear Leader” of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, has executed his uncle, who had served as his advisor and mentor. Max Fisher writes about the language the still-Communist North Koreans used to make this announcement and the worldview it reveals. (more…)
Radio evangelist Harold Camping has died at the age of 92. Best known for predicting that on May 21, 2011, Jesus would come back, Camping’s most harmful teaching was that all church bodies were heretical and that people should just listen to his radio broadcasts
A federal judge has ruled that Utah laws against polygamy are unconstitutional. (more…)
You will note that I have mostly resisted the temptation to conflate Advent with the Christmas season, but I will start with the Christmas posts now that we are in the week before the Nativity of Our Lord. But to salute Advent, I offer you,
Target has hired former CIA operative Jonna Mendez as an online “Kid’s Gift Detective” to help parents shop for their children and hide the presents. She was the “chief of disguise” with the agency, working in the Office of Technical Service, which she describes as
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
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