I have learned a new word, though I’m quite familiar with the reality. From BBC News – Why your inbox fills with bacn instead of spam: Bacn is becoming what spam once was – the nuisance that fills up your inbox and makes it hard
I have learned a new word, though I’m quite familiar with the reality. From BBC News – Why your inbox fills with bacn instead of spam: Bacn is becoming what spam once was – the nuisance that fills up your inbox and makes it hard
New statistics have been released giving the largest Protestant denominations. We Missouri Synod Lutherans are #11 with 2.3 million members. That’s more than the Episcopalians (#12 with 2 milllion), though they get all the attention. If you add up the two biggest Lutheran groups (the
Remember Mark Sanford, the Republican governor of South Carolina? Disappeared in 2009? Released story that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail? Was really in Argentina with his mistress? Finished his term in disgrace? Well, he just won the Republican primary for his old seat in
North Korea has threatened to nuke Hawaii, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas. Now the Stalinist regime is saying that war could break out “today or tomorrow.” We have heard threats from North Korea before–though not like these–and we always dismiss them on the
One of the mysteries of the American religious scene is why all but one of the Eastern Orthodox church bodies in this country are members of the National Council of Churches, the mouthpiece for liberal Protestant denominations. Not only that, the NCC consistently promotes abortion,
I have always admired garbage collectors. Their work is hard and dirty, but essential, and yet they do not get the respect they so richly deserve. They too are masks of God and without them, as Luther said in another context, we would perish in
Republicans have lost the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections. Demographics, geography, and the trends of the day are working against them. Just like the Democrats in the 1980s. See Dan Balz in Republicans today can learn lessons from the Democrats’
Francis Cardinal George reverses the commonplace saying in a column entitled “I’m Religious, but Not Spiritual”: It’s somewhat fashionable these days to describe oneself as “spiritual but not religious.” This is supposed to mean that one is open to an experience beyond the commercial or
James Holmes, who dressed up like the Joker and killed 12 people at the Batman movie (and who faces the death penalty if he is convicted), has converted to Islam. Robert Spencer explores what that means as opposed to a conversion to Christianity: The debate
One of the many unfortunate legacies of Romanticism (there were some fortunate ones as well) is the mystification of the artist, as if, say, a literary genius were some ethereal sensitive soul far above the crass material realm of everyday life. Whereas in reality, actual
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