As I’ve often complained, a major way that urban legends get spread around is as sermon illustrations. Some of these are more in the related genre of scholarly legends. But thanks to Trevin Wax for catching these: 1. The “eye of the needle” refers to
Yet another seemingly unlikely book by C. S. Lewis is getting made into a movie: Ralph Winter, producer of the X-Men films and a self-professed Christian, is set to produce the film version of The Screwtape Letters in a partnership with Fox and Walden Media,
Rev. Jacob Ehrhard offers nine points for reflection on how Christians should react to the killing of Osama bin Laden: 1. The prophet Ezekiel writes, “Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked,
My theory of our recent wars–as I said at the time they started–is that after the 9/11 attacks, America was so enraged that we had to strike back. We invaded Afghanistan, seizing control of the country in weeks. But that was not enough. We still
We have had movements for equal rights for African-Americans, women, gays. The next victimized, discriminated against minority who are demanding approval: Atheists! The Washington Post has published an op-ed piece by Gregory Paul and Phil Zuckerman, raising the issue and asking “Why don’t Americans like
Illinois needs more money. So it has slapped more taxes on its businesses. Whereupon more businesses are leaving the state. So Illinois needs more money. Here is a lesson in unintended consequences, how governments trying to raise revenue by raising taxes can end up killing
C. S. Lewis’s Great Divorce is getting made into a movie! That symbolic/visionary/satirical/fantasy of a bus trip from Hell to a too-solid Heaven would seem to be hard to render in a film, but that’s part of what makes the prospect interesting. The writer tapped
A major victory in the war against terrorism and in the war of vengeance for the 9/11 attacks: Osama bin Laden, the long-hunted al-Qaeda leader and chief architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, was killed by U.S. forces Sunday
The readings in church last Sunday included this passage from John 20: 19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and
The big social event of the year in Washington, D.C., is last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which is known as the “prom” for the journalism/Hollywood/political complex. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post feels guilty about what it has become: The fun begins, appropriately
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