Sunday was Pentecost, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit 50 days after Easter and thus the birthday of the Church. Something I learned from Sunday’s service: The Holy Spirit was accompanied by miraculous language, which was not just words but powerful, life-changing words that
The Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod is doing good work in Haiti that is attracting attention. This from WORLD MAGAZINE: The LCMS has been in Haiti since the quake, providing for the immediate needs of the survivors: food, water, medical supplies and temporary shelter. They realize, however,
The Korean War of the 1950s has never officially ended. Now South Korea, after decades of restraint, is getting tough with its Stalinist neighbor to the North, responding to a deadly torpedo attack on one of its ships that killed 46 South Koreans: South Korean
SPOILER ALERT! So Lost ends with the sacrifice of someone with bloody hands and feet and a wound in his side. Whereupon everyone, including everyone who died in the series, ends up in a church–complete with a statue of Jesus–where they forgive each other, are
Richard Cohen says that America just doesn’t have much effect on world events anymore. He starts with the President’s visit to the oil spill. . . Everyone knew that Obama was merely showing that he was not George W. Bush. He was not going to
In a high culture that no longer believes in beauty or meaning, art becomes reduced to interesting gestures. Consider this “work,” as described by art critic Blake Gopnik: On Saturday evening, in the back room at Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea, veteran dealer Magdalena Sawon gave
That’s what’s happening in France, where “95% of couples taking up the pacte civil de solidarite (Pacs) in 2009 were heterosexual. As the number of straight French couples opting for Pacs has grown, the number of marriages has shrunk, to the point that there are
Steve Jobs, the mind behind Apple computing, is making a stand against pornography, even though that happens to be one of the online world’s biggest business! Comments from Pete at Grace-City: Jobs has argued that he wants his portable computer devices to not sell or
The notable scholar and Catholic commentator Anthony Esolen–whom I have had the privilege of hanging out with at a classical education conference at Our Savior’s in Houston–has written a fine essay on Shakespeare’s consistent theme of chastity, not just for women, but (rare in his
China is thinking way beyond making money by trade and overseas investment. James McGregor tells about still-Communist China’s latest economic plans: How do we overcome the fundamental disconnect between our system of scattered bureaucratic responsibilities and almost no national economic planning vs. China’s top-down, disciplined
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