Happy Pentecost yesterday! May the Holy Spirit pour out His richest blessings on you. May the Holy Spirit work in your heart as you hear God’s Word. Here is a question about the Holy Spirit that I would like to submit to the collective theological
Happy Pentecost yesterday! May the Holy Spirit pour out His richest blessings on you. May the Holy Spirit work in your heart as you hear God’s Word. Here is a question about the Holy Spirit that I would like to submit to the collective theological
In the course of their remarkable life-cycle, cicadas come to the surface only every seventeen years. This is the year. Going along with that new culinary trend I blogged about, some people tare planning on eating them, including a frozen custard stand in Alexandria that
In a column about the intricacies of young adults staying on their parents’ insurance plan (worth reading in itself), health columnist Michelle Andrews mentions a curious Medicaid provision: The joint state-federal health program for low-income people generally provides coverage for pregnant women with incomes up
We are getting ready to set forth on an epic road trip, going the length and breadth of this great land of ours. I’ve always wanted to do that. To get our minds ready for summer vacations and as an experiment in localism, I would
My first book, Reformation Spirituality: The Religion of George Herbert, is back in print. It is basically my dissertation, which I revised for publication by Bucknell University Press back in 1985. Recently, Wipf & Stock approached me about re-issuing it. You can see in it
Words and images are two different media, so a novel and a movie are two different kinds of art forms. Sometimes a good written story can be told visually, but if what makes the novel good is its language, that may not translate at all
As I predicted, the news media is turning on the Obama administration. Not just because the Justice Department, trying to trace a leak, subpoenaed phone companies for a list of calls made and received over two months by 20 reporters from the Associated Press (including
Sen. Rand Paul is presenting himself as a “libertarian Republican” rather than a “libertarian,” and is courting evangelicals and other Christian conservatives. In an apparent effort to position himself as a credible GOP presidential candidate, Paul is backing away from conventional libertarian positions, such as
It’s illegal to buy a car direct from the factory or over the internet. You have to go through a local dealer. The electric car company Tesla is trying to change that. But state and local governments are resisting. That, arguably, goes against the free
More increasingly alarming details are coming out about the IRS scandal. See this, for the kind of intrusive information the IRS demanded. See also this and this for how liberal organizations applying for the same status were routinely and quickly approved, no questions asked. And
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