Democrats are attacking Republicans as lackeys for Wall Street. President Obama has thrown his support behind the Occupy Wall Street protesters. He wants to pour on more regulations and restrictions to big investors and banks and to take advantage of the public backlash against big
From an advice column in the U. S. Catholic: Should you pass on communion at a Lutheran church or participate fully? You are at the wedding of a beloved family member or friend, which is taking place at a Lutheran church. You gladly accepted the
Saddam Hussein, Osama bin-Laden, and now Muammar Qaddafi: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after an armed uprising toppled his regime two months ago, met a violent and vengeful death Thursday in the hands of rebel fighters who stormed his
“Who am I?” By Dietrich Bonhoeffer (March 4, 1945) Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell’s confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a squire from his country-house. Who am I? They often tell me I would talk to my warders
The consensus of yesterday’s discussion here on the last Republican presidential debate is that Newt Gingrich had the best performance. He is certainly conservative, experienced, creative in his problem solving, and very, very smart. (It is said of him that the only preparation for a
Even though the St. Louis Cardinals broke my heart by beating the Brewers in the playoffs, I find myself wanting them to win the World Series. Not too long ago, the Cardinals were written off, 10 games back, with no hope for the wild card
On Monday night, the dissident Chinese author Liao Yiwu gave a reading on my campus. He read a poem, “Massacre,” about the killings of the pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. For writing that poem, Liao was tortured and imprisoned for four years. This led to
We had another G.O.P. presidential candidate debate. I’ve stopped watching them, finding them too disheartening. If you watched it, please report in the comments. Did anyone rise or fall?
One side effect of the foreclosure crisis: Many banks do not want to hold and pay taxes on run-down properties that no one will ever want to buy. So they are razing the decrepit buildings that plague so many of our big cities and are
Lutheran journalist Mollie Hemingway has a fascinating piece in the Wall Street Journal about how the Episcopal Church in the USA is trying to thwart the new conservative Anglican denomination: When the Church of the Good Shepherd in Binghamton, N.Y., left the Episcopal Church over
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