The baseball playoffs are on another level of sports enjoyment. These games are not relaxing, as baseball usually is, at least if you have a favorite team in the mix. You find yourselves fixating on every pitch. The games are intense, suspenseful, stressful. To be
Be sure to read our live blog of the Vice Presidential debate, below. We’ve got some good punditry here. Who do you think won the debate? Will this turn the tide back to Obama, keep up Romney’s new momentum, have no effect, or what?
This “Life Quote” from Lutherans For Life was in our bulletin Sunday, strong words from apologist John Stott: “How can we speak of the termination of a pregnancy when what we really mean is the destruction of a human life? How can we talk of
One of my favorite courses in grad school was “Bibliography and Methods,” in which we learned about the scholarship of studying manuscripts, variant texts, printing evidence, textual editing, and other kinds of hard-core old-school literary research. One of the things you can do with this
As we watch and comment upon the Vice Presidential debate, let’s add a drinking game. Everyone have at hand a beverage of your choice. (I recommend WATER. Anything alcoholic and you might not make it to the closing statements. Anything caffeinated and you may not
The New York Times published an online column arguing that the purpose of work is leisure. (We work for the sake of the weekend; we have a career so we can retire; we try to amass wealth so we can stop working.) That is also
More from that Pew study of Americans who are unaffiliated with any religion. It turns out that the 20% of Americans who check “none” when asked their religion are not necessarily complete secularist materialists. Only 6% of Americans are atheists. Most of the “nones” seem
Tonight is the Vice Presidential debate between Republican Paul Ryan and Democratic incumbent Joe Biden. Shall we live blog it, as we did with the first presidential debate? Meet here at 9:00 ET. I’ll start a new post for that. In the meantime, we can
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has published an important new study of Americans who are unaffiliated with any religion. One-fifth of U.S. adults say they are not part of a traditional religious denomination, new data from the Pew Research Center show, evidence
Now that gay marriage is legal in many jurisdictions and broadly accepted, activists are taking up the cause of polygamy. The liberal Washington Post religion columnist Lisa Miller is sympathetic: This week, in one of his first public statements since this past summer’s anti-gay-marriage remarks,
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