Does this mean the Iraq war is over? The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, the US military has said. The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing by land into Kuwait in the early hours of Thursday morning, said
Claudia Friedlander is a classical musician and voice teacher. She was asked her opinion of five different male heavy metal singers. (The link also plays samples of the music that she was analyzing.) Notice that classical aesthetics contains principles that apply to every kind of
The prominent Chinese general Liu Yazhou, possibly at great risk to himself, is calling upon his country to adopt American-style democracy and rule of law: A Chinese general has warned his conservative Communist Party masters and People’s Liberation Army colleagues that China can either embrace
I am one of the few people left in the world who does not have a Facebook account. Maybe I’ll get one one of these days. Right now, it seems like just one more thing to check. Still, I appreciate its potential for facilitating human
Philosopher Stephen J. Heaney discusses the nature of marriage in the context of the same-sex marriage debate: Marriage is often characterized today as follows: 1) two people 2) who love each other 3) want to perform sexual acts together, so 4) they consent to combine
Peter Berger is one of the major sociologists of our day. A Lutheran Christian of the ELCA variety, he discusses the explosion of Christianity in still-Communist China, a phenomenon described in that country as “Christianity fever”: The most reliable source for religious demography is the
Well, I just got back from the ordination of my son-in-law, Ned Moerbe, and his installation as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Blackwell, Oklahoma (just a few miles from our ancestral farm outside of Tonkawa). It was a great occasion. I counted 15 pastors taking
The California teachers’ union is calling for a boycott of the L.A. Times for publishing an expose of teacher performance. Here are some of its findings: • Highly effective teachers routinely propel students from below grade level to advanced in a single year. There is
Joe Carter takes on an intriguing argument: Would evidence for God mean the end of atheism and Christianity? Yes, says Matt J. Rossano, a professor and department head of psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University. In a peculiar article at The Huffington Post, Rossano argues that
Twenty-something Brett McCracken is put off by what churches are doing to attract him: Increasingly, the “plan” has taken the form of a total image overhaul, where efforts are made to rebrand Christianity as hip, countercultural, relevant. As a result, in the early 2000s, we
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