Muslims are hailing the discovery of a version of the apocryphal Gospel of Barnabus that has Jesus allegedly predicting the coming of Mohammed. This will cause, so they say, the collapse of Christianity. Iran’s Basij Press is claiming that a version of the Gospel of
George Will sums up how Elizabeth Warren and her Ivy League universities played the diversity game: Blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, the Senate candidate in Massachusetts and Harvard professor who cites “family lore” that she is 1/32nd Cherokee, was inducted into Oklahoma’s Hall of Fame last
A driver coming from the opposite direction flashes headlights at you. You slow down. Sure enough, when you go around the corner you see a highway patrolman with a radar gun. That stranger with the flashing headlights saved you from a speeding ticket. Is that
A good test-case for our discussions about what makes for Christian art. Christian art historian Daniel Siedell (a Lutheran sympathizer) on the bad theology of the paintings of Thomas Kinkade, the popular “painter of light” who died recently: Kinkade claimed, “I like to portray a
It would seem that pro-lifers are winning the argument. Except that a large number of pro-lifers evidently believe that abortion should be legal. The percentage of Americans who identify themselves as “pro-choice” is at the lowest point ever measured by Gallup, according to a new
One of the promising developments in homeschooling is the advent of on-line courses. Parents can now enroll their children in an entire on-line school or in individual hard-to-teach-on-your-own classes. A promising venture that many Lutheran homeschoolers are excited about is Wittenberg Academy, an online classical
It’s early in the head-to-head campaign, with some polls showing Romney ahead and others showing Obama. The deciding factor, of course, is the electoral college. It takes 270 to win. According to this analysis in the Washington Post, Obama has 196 electoral votes tied up,
A letter from the late poet W. H. Auden to his pastor, on the occasion of the church–St. Mark’s Episcopal in New York City–adopting a more modern liturgy: 77 St Mark’s Place New York City 3 Nov. 26th [year not given] Dear Father Allen: Have
Eighty years ago on this day, May 22, 1932, Josef Stalin began his program to eliminate the very memory of the name of God in the Soviet Union within 5 years. The following account of Stalin’s “atheistic five-year plan” is from a Russian site and
I have spared you my American Idol reflections up to this point, that show being one of my pop-culture vices, but a recent performance was so emblematic that I cannot help but comment upon it. Joshua Ledet, arguably the best singer in the contest (who
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