Joe Carter looks at the “theophobes” who are all worried about America becoming a theocracy, as if evangelicals who don’t even believe in a central church authority would institute a central government authority. He tries to calm their fears, pointing out that the number
According to the latest census data, nearly one in six Americans are poor: Amid a still struggling economy, more people in America fell below the poverty line last year, according to new census data released Tuesday. The nation’s poverty rate rose to 15.1% in 2010,
I grew up in northeast Oklahoma: Cherokee country. Many of my African-American friends growing up were also members of the Cherokee tribe. The “Five Civilized Tribes,” which include the Cherokees, assimilated quite a bit into the white man’s ways–which is why the white men called
I know that the confessional Lutheran practice of “closed communion,” in which you have to be a member of the church body (or a member of a church in formal doctrinal fellowship with that church body) to commune at the Lutheran altar, is offensive to
Texas governor and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry got hit hard in the recent debate over his executive order to vaccinate young girls against a sexually-transmitted disease. My friend Rich Shipe was telling me even before Perry threw his hat in the ring that a
Last night’s debate between the eight Republican presidential contenders was put on by CNN and sponsored by the Tea Party, no less. Wolf Blitzer presided, but he worked from questions from the Tea Party audience, which made them arguably more interesting to conservatives. My impression
Attention is now on “jobs, jobs, jobs.” Earlier, the attention was on “economic stimulus.” But many economists are saying that those emphases miss the big problem that is dragging the economy down and preventing consumer spending: the mortgage crisis in the housing market. Almost half
Yum! Scientists are on the verge of growing artificial meat in laboratories without the need for animal slaughter, according to a report cited Thursday by The Herald Sun — with one expert predicting a stem cell sausage might be just six months away. Researchers say
Although I did not want to dwell too much on the 9/11 ten year anniversary, the occasion brought out some fascinating stories that are worth our reflection, even though the anniversary is behind us. Like this one, on the Cross at Ground Zero: The shape
The passengers on Flight 93 rose up against the hijackers, who crashed the plane in a Pennsylvania field rather than the White House or whatever their target was. We now know that if that hadn’t happened, the military was prepared to take down the airliner,
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