Still more from that brilliant column by Peggy Noonan, America’s Crisis of Character: There is the Secret Service scandal. That one broke through too, and you know the facts: overseas to guard the president, sent home for drinking, partying, picking up prostitutes. What’s terrible about
I met an Anglican priest the other day who, it turns out, was a big fan of Spirituality of the Cross and my other “Lutheran” books. As I talked with him, I was astonished at how much he was into Lutheranism. He explained that there
Peggy Noonan cuts to the heart: People in politics talk about the right track/wrong track numbers as an indicator of public mood. This week Gallup had a poll showing only 24% of Americans feel we’re on the right track as a nation. That’s a historic
David Browder quotes from a keynote speech Bruce Springsteen made at the SXSW shindig in Austin in which he gives his reflections on the great Hank Williams and the music of his tradition: I remember sitting in my little apartment, listening to Hank Williams Greatest
An evangelical conclave has recommended that churches encourage their single members to take contraceptives as a way to cut down on Christians getting abortions: Two weeks ago, younger evangelical leaders gathered in Washington D.C. to reflect about the shape Christianity should take in the world.
Michael Hirsh, writing in the National Journal, in the course of a discussion of the Obama administration’s new Middle East policy quotes an unnamed State Department official as declaring that “the war on terror is over.” The Obama administration is taking a new view of
Levon Helm, the lead singer and drummer of the group so iconic that they just went by the name “The Band,” has died. They were first known as Bob Dylan’s backup band, but they went off on their own and virtually invented the genre of
Phil Humber of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect game last Saturday against the Seattle Mariners: no hits, no runs, no walks. He was only the 21st person in baseball history to achieve that feat. It turns out that Humber is an outspoken Christian,
Charles Porterfield Krauth was an American Lutheran theologian of the 19th century. His book The Conservative Reformation is a classic of theology and church history. You may perhaps have heard what he said about the three stages of error–from the request for toleration to a
More from Pastor Douthwaite’s sermon last Sunday, on the connection between Scripture and Jesus: Luke tells us: “Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.” Like the parent who after embracing her child opens the closet to show him that there are no monsters,
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