An interesting article in Harper’s Magazine by MIT physicist Alan Lightman on how the “multiverse” theory–which cosmologists are embracing apparently as their only alternative to Intelligent Design–is throwing down the very foundations of the scientific enterprise: The history of science can be viewed as the
I would like to wish all of you readers–conservatives and liberals, Lutherans and non-Lutherans and anti-Lutherans, Christians and other religionists and atheists, moralists and libertarians, Tea Partiers and Occupy Wall Streeters, experts and textperts and choking smokers, and all of the other varied souls who
Last time Christmas fell on Sunday it came out that a number of churches had decided to cancel services, which provoked some controversy. I haven’t heard of churches doing that this year, whether because they have all come to their senses or because it has
I continue my custom of offering you a Christmas poem, poetry being “a trap for meditation.” Here is one that I just discovered by the Welsh Anglican cleric Rowland Watkyns (1662): Upon Christ’s Nativity, or Christmas From three dark places Christ came forth this day;
The online radio program Issues, Etc., is planning a marathon of sacred Christmas music beginning on Christmas Eve. You’ve got to love their promo:
Greg Forster, in the context of a discussion about Europe’s economic woes, makes some fascinating connections between the doctrine of vocation and economic productivity: A historically unprecedented phenomenon has been unfolding—in Europe for the past five centuries, in America for the past two, and more
What do you think of Newt Gingrich’s expressed plan, if he is elected president, to ignore court rulings that he disagrees with, to legislate judicial districts out of existence, to arrest judges in order to haul them before legislators to explain their rulings, to over-rule
An interesting article in the British business publication Financial Times about how many companies–including high-tech companies–are trying to do away with e-mail: “We believe email is fundamentally unproductive, you need to sift through too many documents and things get lost,” says Leerom Segal, president and
Michael Gerson gives the most lucid explanation I have found for what the Higgs boson–a.k.a. the “God particle”–is. He also explores the implications of the strange fact that mathematics, which is a function of the human mind, can actually predict what things exist in the
President Obama on himself, speaking in an interview with 60 Minutes: “The issue here is not going be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any
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