Since the time of the ancient Greeks, a dramatic production seldom lasts much more than two hours, about the limit of human endurance sitting in one place. Thus, plays, movies, and TV shows tend to be relatively short. Novels, though, can take weeks to read.
Todd Wilkens, host of Issues, Etc., has a provocative post on voting like a Christian. He is applying to this work of the calling of citizenship what Luther taught is the purpose of all vocations: To love and serve one’s neighbor. Why does a Christian
Read our live-blog commentary, below. It was a cool exercise, interacting with each other and with the topic in real time. Now, recollecting the debate in tranquility, what do you think about the debate as a whole? Who will be helped, and who will be
Greetings, all of you Cranachers of every political persuasion. In this experiment in real-time online interaction and discussion, I will post comments on the first presidential candidate debate as it unfolds and invite you to do the same. Or you can just read what we
Tune into the presidential debate at 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time, fire up your computer, and come to this site and this post. As the debate proceeds, type your observations, reactions, profound insights, and snide remarks as comments. I’ll do the same. We can discuss the
Mitt Romney seems to dismiss the 47% of Americans who will never vote for him anyway. James P. Pinkerton, though, recounts another kind of conservatism–the tradition of Disraeli, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and others–that is oriented to the 100%. This is
Rod Dreher is reading The Odyssey with his son. He is finding that it ties right into his life. Homer’s epic is about Odysseus coming home. Which is not the same as staying at home. Odysseus had to go to Troy, but after his business
That’s the position taken by the Methodist church. From Mark Tooley: Recently a newly appointed official with the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society explained on her agency’s website that “we are a church that is pro-life, not pro-birth.” Interesting explanation. What does
Tomorrow is the first presidential debate. If you were one of the moderators, what questions would you ask Barack Obama and Mitt Romney?
Daniel McCarthy, the editor of The American Conservative, answers that question with a “no.” He points out that Republicans have become very successful on the local and state levels, but haven’t won a plurality of votes in a national presidential race for four out of the
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