And then there was one. Ron Paul has suspended his campaign. Mitt Romney is the last Republican standing. Paul did better than he did four years ago, and he continues to accumulate delegates at state conventions. But he was a long way from winning. Do
James R. Rogers, a Texas A&M professor and board member of the LCSM Texas District, has an intriguing post at First Things about how the vampire craze can become an occasion to help people understand about the Blood of Christ: Here’s a report [link at
Behind the rhetoric of “the war on women” and the “Julia” website is a strategy of Democrats to turn single women–sorry, unmarried women, I mean, “women on their own”–into the militant voting bloc that evangelicals are for Republicans. While it is true that single mothers
Republicans are hesitant to make an issue over President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage, both because they aren’t sure what position is the winner politically and, more importantly, because the party itself is divided over the issue. From The Washington Post: Some top Republicans described
This blog was knocked out of the worldwide web for a whole week due to technical difficulties. I have learned that some of you have become overly dependent on this site as a source for what is happening in the world. (I appreciate the sentiment,
But that we thought might happen. . . . . Apparently, Fidel Castro did NOT take up the Christian faith or rejoin the Roman Catholic Church during the Pope’s visit. That Iranian Christian who was facing the death penalty was not executed, “just” sentenced to
We saw The Avengers, the movie that’s setting box office records. We went whole hog, springing for the version in 3-D AND Imax. Like other comic book movies, it was mostly what Aristotle in his Poetics called “spectacle.” Movies today go all out with high-tech
The Washington Post has a big story of the sort that opposition researchers love, an event from the past that can discredit a candidate with voters. Reportedly, when Mitt Romney was in high school, he and some friends jumped a guy with long hair–someone who
The great sociologist of religion Peter Berger comments on the project of Andrew Bowen, who in 2011 practiced a different religion each month—Hindu in January, Baha’i in February, Zoroastrian in March, etc. Religion today, he says, is no longer a matter of personal identity, history,
President Obama’s position on gay marriage has evolved to the point that he’s now all for it. That’s what he told ABC News. One reason he cited was his Christian faith. “You know, we [his wife Michele and he] are both practicing Christians and obviously
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