Eric Metaxas summarizes some recent findings in Middle Eastern archaeology, ones that confirm not just isolated facts in the Bible but the “big picture” of the Biblical narrative: Israeli archaeologists recently discovered a coin, dating from the 11th century before Christ. It depicted “a man
Mormons do not have ordained clergy, as such, but lay people step into that role in local congregations and church hierarchies. Mitt Romney shepherded his local flock and was over the other Mormon congregations in the Boston area, serving as “bishop” and “stake president.” The
Politico is a useful political journalism site that some conservatives think leans to the left and is biased against them. So when Politico publishes an e-book on the Obama campaign that emphasizes its disarray, there may be something to it. Read this account: Obama campaign
Manasseh was King of Judah; Athens got rid of its kings and started on the road to democracy; Rome had just been founded. And a British criminal was executed (or maybe sacrificed), having been both hanged AND beheaded. We now have his brain. A
Mobs in Egypt are reportedly crucifying opponents of the new president. From Michael Carl: The Arab Spring takeover of Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood has run amok, with reports from several different media agencies that the radical Muslims have begun crucifying opponents of newly installed
Joe Carter, who used to work for the Family Research Center, looks at the security guard who stopped the gunman after getting a bullet in the arm, in light of the doctrine of vocation: The key-card was required to get into the building and to
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
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