The Washington Post has a weekend religious services directory that prints notices and advertisements from local churches. I was surprised to see how many churches besides the usual liturgical denominations (Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran) are holding Ash Wednesday services, in a number of cases complete
Lent is a good time for contemporary Christians to contemplate their solidarity with the Church as the Body of Christ, which extends around the world and back through time. Here are the remains of the oldest church building that has been found. It’s called the
LCMS president Matthew Harrison challenges everyone to join him in a Lenten project that is not giving something up, that is doing something very positive for others, and that will benefit your spiritual life: Praying the Litany every day. The Litany is an ancient structure
Back to the bad effects of the internet: Facebook is cited in 1 out of every 5 divorces in the United States, according to the Loyola University Health System. Furthermore, 81 percent of the country’s top divorce attorneys say they have seen an increase in
Not “Islamic,” but “Islamist,” meaning radical and jihadist. Does this approach to foreign policy strike you as feckless and naive? (And do you know what “feckless” means?) The Obama administration is preparing for the prospect that Islamist governments will take hold in North Africa and
Plato worried that reading would diminish the memory, and he was right. Now in our information age, our memories have shriveled even more. A third of British citizens under 30 don’t know their home phone numbers. Two-thirds of American teenagers don’t know when the Civil
Crisis pregnancy centers do a lot of good, giving women with an unwanted pregnancy an alternative to abortion and giving tangible, material help to women in need. But now pro-abortion forces are starting to target them. In apparent retaliation for pro-life efforts to cut off
A wide-ranging and embarrassingly detailed survey of Americans’ sexual practices turned up some surprises. Abstinence among young adults is significant and growing. More than twice as many women than men have homosexual attraction and behavior. And quite a few people with homosexual attraction have never
As you know, 15 Democratic state legislators in Wisconsin are hiding out in Illinois–beyond the jurisdiction of Wisconsin state troopers–to prevent a quorum so that Republican lawmakers can’t pass a bill cutting benefits for state workers and restricting their union. Now Democratic lawmakers in Indiana
World Magazine is planning to set up regional online bureaus to provide local and regional news coverage. The first one is for Virginia and is making use of journalism students at the school where I work, Patrick Henry College. One of my former students, Hannah
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