A Scottish monster hunter named George Edwards has claimed to have caught the Loch Ness Monster on film. I am skeptical about such things, but I get a kick out of cryptozoology–all of those Big Foot stories, Yeti sightings, and other mysterious creatures that allegedly
Yale professor and political liberal Beverly Gage laments that conservatives have an intellectual tradition carried on in books, but liberals don’t. They used to–and note what the key books were–but don’t any more, leaving them intellectually weak and poorly grounded: We tend to think of
I remember when I was little–this would have been the late 1950s when television sets were still novelties–my parents would have friends over for dinner. Afterwards, the adults would all gather around the piano, with my mother playing, and they would all sing. I recall
The New York Times, no less, has published a piece by Harvard Luther scholar Steven Ozment (author of that new book on Cranach that I intend to blog about at some point) on the Lutheran elements in today’s German economic policy towards the Eurozone: Even
A pro-gay activist posing as an intern and reportedly carrying a Chick-fil-A bag as a disguise opened fire at the Washington headquarters of the Family Research Council. A security guard for the conservative think tank was shot in the arm but still subdued the gunman,
Frank J. Fleming has posted a tongue-in-cheek set of FAQs on Christianity for today’s secularists who have no clue about this scary new religion. A sample: How long have Christians been around? While many people see Christians as a brand new and quite scary thing,
No, the president is most emphatically NOT a national pastor, such an understanding betraying a deadly confusion of God’s Two Kingdoms and completely distorting the nature of the pastoral office. But the normally circumspect Christianity Today has two articles that say, yes, the president kind
The old atheists deny that God exists. The new atheists deny that God is good and that therefore he does not exist. Now we have what Christopher R. Beha describes as “new new atheists,” atheists who believe God does not exist and are trying to
Abortion is called a woman’s health issue, with the right to abortion necessary to protect a woman’s life, in many instances, and physical well-being in many more. So what percentage of abortions are to save a mother’s life or to protect her health? Not very
Anthony Sacramone tells about his own spiritual history, his current frustrations in trying to find a Lutheran congregation, and various theological difficulties. He closes by asking “what is a Lutheran?” and asks for help in sorting through all of this. The man is a great
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