Here is a solution to our national debt problem that is being floated seriously with various economists and Congressmen buying into it: Mint a trillion dollar coin out of platinum (other metals have statutory limits on how much they can be worth) and put it in the
An Atheist church has opened in London: Yesterday [January 6] saw the first ‘service’ of The Sunday Assembly, London’s first atheist church. Priding itself on its tagline ‘live better, help often, wonder more,’ The Sunday Assembly is the brainchild of Sanderson Jones and musical comedian
My colleague Mark Mitchell feels some cognitive dissonance with the NRA’s response to gun violence in schools: NRA president Wayne LaPierre called for a new initiative to place policemen in every school in America. It’s curious that in attempting to defend one right, the consequence
The $100 per day, per employee, fines have gone into effect for employers that refuse to provide insurance that includes free contraception and abortion-causing drugs. Churches are exempt, and non-profit religious organizations were granted a one-year reprieve, but companies owned by pro-life individuals must either
Yesterday was Epiphany, introducing the season of Epiphany that lasts until Lent. The different Sundays commemorate the “epiphanies” of Christ–that is, the revelations of who Jesus is. First we mark the coming of the Wise Men (the revelation of Christ to the Gentiles); next Sunday
We saw Les Miserables, which has to be the most explicitly Christian film that I have seen come out of contemporary Hollywood. There are more meaningful unembarrassed references–in dialogue, songs, and plot elements–to God, Jesus, salvation, grace, prayer, and Heaven than in most of the
On January 1, one week ago, I predicted in our annual exercise that someone would propose amending the Constitution to allow Barack Obama to serve a third term. It has already happened: Democratic New York Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduced a bill in Congress Friday to
The governor of Pennsylvania is suing the NCAA for its harsh punishment of Penn State, hitting the entire university because of Coach Jerry Sandusky’s molestation of children: Pennsylvania’s governor, in a challenge to the NCAA’s powers, claimed in a lawsuit Wednesday that college sports’ governing
Mollie Hemingway has a piece in the Wall Street Journal about the difficulty of giving away a $20 million piece of property due to a New England town’s hatred of evangelicals: Unable to maintain its 217-acre campus and 43 buildings, the board of Northfield Mount
A new study, entitled The Global Religious Landscape, from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, has found, among other interesting facts, that Christianity has become fairly evenly distributed around the world. The Asia and Pacific regions contain most of the other world religions,
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