The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases that may settle the legal status of gay marriage in this country. The court will rule on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage in federal law as being between one man
Educational reform efforts in the public schools are generally well-intentioned, but once they are taken over by the educational bureaucrats they often achieve the opposite of what was intended. A commendable concern to ensure that students have learned something from the classes they take, that
You have probably heard about those two Australian radio hosts who called the hospital where Kate Middleton, pregnant with a future monarch of England, was being treated for severe morning sickness. They imitated the voice of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles, the grandparents, and managed
I started blogging when I wrote small posts for World Magazine’s blog back when blogs were new. Then I had a blog of my own under World’s auspices, and then, after World changed the way it was doing its website, I signed up with a
Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck died at age 92. The man and his quartet showed sheer genius. My old guitar teacher once sat in with him and it was one of the highlights of his life. Brubeck was a Christian who composed a great deal of
Today is the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, plunging the United States into World War. See Attack on Pearl Harbor – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Do you think we will ever again have a world war; that is, war on a
Mormon author Warren Aston writes about that religion’s other deity: It is Gospel Doctrine 101 that we are the children of God. Our spirits are the children of a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother in the most literal sense possible. We have within us
You know those user reviews on online sites like Yelp, Angie’s List, Yahoo, and all those restaurant and travel sites? Some businesses are striking back at negative reviews by suing the reviewers. A Fairfax County woman being sued for defamation over negative reviews she wrote
Merriam Webster, the dictionary publisher with a big online presence, has announced the most looked-up words of 2012. The top two, tied as Words of the Year, are socialism and capitalism. That Americans evidently don’t know what those two words mean helps explain the election.
Have you noticed how quickly “the latest ideas” become the old-fashioned ideas? Brian Orme is a Southern Baptist expert in church trends. What were once the foundational assumptions of the Church Growth Movement he is now labeling as “Ten Old Wives Tales about Church Growth.”
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