A funeral can be a great help to people who are grieving. A funeral can also make matters worse. A funeral can be built around the strong Word of God, helping people face death, while serving as a catalyst whereby sorrow is resolved into hope.
A funeral can be a great help to people who are grieving. A funeral can also make matters worse. A funeral can be built around the strong Word of God, helping people face death, while serving as a catalyst whereby sorrow is resolved into hope.
George Will reviews a book that seems to go to the heart of the difference between conservatism and progressivism: Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State Today, as it has been for a century, American politics is an argument between two Princetonians — James Madison, Class
The umpire’s. . . . An umpire’s tears and admission he blew a call failed to move baseball commissioner Bud Selig to award Armando Galarraga the perfect game he pitched. The play and its aftermath quickly became the talk of the sports world and beyond,
Well, our trip to Oklahoma has taken a different turn. We came here to celebrate my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary. The day we got to Oklahoma, though, we learned that my wife’s father’s wife–who had been in the hospital for a relatively minor operation–caught an
Some politicians want to set public policy according to the teachings of the Word. In doing so, they are trying to set up a theocratic government. Right now, the most powerful of these Christian Taliban is evidently Nancy Pelosi. Here is what the pro-abortion Speaker
This is shaping up to be a busy summer for me, with lots of travelling, for business, for pleasure, and for business and pleasure. We set out today for Oklahoma and my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary celebration, to be followed by my last Concordia Publishing
Lost is over. Law and Order and Numb3rs are cancelled. The networks need to come up with new programming and are searching for the next Lost. So far, program directors seem to be coming up with new ideas like these: Let’s have another police procedural!
I was browsing through the library, when imagine my surprise when I saw the latest issue of the American Historical Review with a big picture of Luther and Melanchthon on the cover. The lead article is entitled “Martin Luther’s Body,” focusing on how fat he
Biblical Archaeology Review has published a portrait of one of the king Herods, one of the “tetrarchs,” based on computer enhancement of images on rare coins of the time. This is not the Herod who slaughtered the innocents–that was Herod the Great. Nor was it
Thomas Boswell, one of the better baseball writers, says that the real key to understanding the subtleties of baseball is paying attention to the number of balls and strikes, to the count: The count [is] baseball’s open secret, the hidden key, the game-within-the-game that players
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