I’m becoming a regular high-tech kind of guy, though at least I’m a late adopter. I now have a Kindle. (My wife wanted one for Mother’s Day, so I obliged, whereupon since I was always borrowing hers, she bought me one for Father’s Day. Our
I’m becoming a regular high-tech kind of guy, though at least I’m a late adopter. I now have a Kindle. (My wife wanted one for Mother’s Day, so I obliged, whereupon since I was always borrowing hers, she bought me one for Father’s Day. Our
I didn’t realize books could be like movies and have trailers, but here is a trailer for a book I really enjoyed, West Oversea: A Norse Saga of Mystery, Adventure and Faith, by Lars Walker, a longtime commenter on this blog. (If the video doesn’t
A Muslim woman is calling for the legalization of sex slavery–which she describes as the temporary marriage of concubines–on the grounds that Islam permits it and that it is a cure for adultery. From the International Business Times: Sex slaves are OK in Islam, according
David French is an Iraq war veteran and Nancy French is his wife. Together they have written Home and Away: A Story of Family in a Time of War. From an interview with the authors: ‘Men were coming home on leave to find their wives
Canadian historian Francois Furstenberg reminds us of the economic depression that America had to struggle through in the 19th century: Much like our time, the Gilded Age was an era of economic booms and busts. None was greater than the financial crisis that began in
It is being reported that presidential candidate Michele Bachmann suffers from “incapacitating” migraine headaches. The implication is that this disqualifies her from office. Is this a concern? Or an example of the punditocracy, having already discredited her religious background, being willing to bring up anything
Remember our recent discussion about “Where are the Lutherans?”, responding to another blog complaining that Lutherans are invisible in the evangelical world? Well, here is a post from Tullian Tchividjian. He is a Reformed pastor, the grandson of Billy Graham and the successor to the late
A speaker at the National Press Club called for making religion central to our foreign policy. He made a lot of sense at first, but then fell off the deep end: The best way to address Jihadist terrorism is to make religion a central component
Theology may be bringing down Iran’s President Ahmadinejad. So says Karim Sadjadpour, writing in the Washington Post: While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s demagoguery and Holocaust revisionism on the world stage have earned him alarmist comparisons to Adolf Hitler, his recent, ignoble fall from grace reveals
Philosopher Edward Feser clears us misconceptions about the cosmological argument for the existence of God: 1. The argument does NOT rest on the premise that “Everything has a cause.” Lots of people – probably most people who have an opinion on the matter – think
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In