So says the president: President Obama outlined the changing U.S. role in Iraq on Monday to an organization of disabled veterans, saying that beginning next month the more-than-seven-year war effort will change from a primarily military enterprise to a diplomatic one. “The hard truth is
Joe Carter tries to think what he ever saw in Ayn Rand, who despised Christianity and held that the only virtue is selfishness. He cites a new biography that details how bad she was, though at least consistent with her assumptions: She announced that the
We’ve talked about the Hospitallers, aka the Knights of Malta and–in Bo Giertz’s novel by that name translated by Cranach commenter Bror Erickson–the Knights of Rhodes. You have already heard of the Knights Templar, with their mysterious and allegedly occultic secrets and their alleged ties
An anthropologist, Alex Golub, beginning with descriptions of the atheists’ new unbaptism rite (which involves a hair dryer), tosses off this delicious line: One side believes it possesses an infallible book written by an omnipotent author with a huge beard with completely explains the dynamics
Upon the recommendation of many of you, we saw “Inception.” What I like are complicated, mutli-leveled, twisting plots. This qualified. So thank you for the suggestion. My one problem with the movie is that it depicted dreams, and yet nothing in those depictions was remotely
Thanks for the good discussion on the weekend’s post about Anne Rice rejecting Christianity, while still saying that she believes in Christ. The comments include more quotations from her about what she means by that, as well as thought-provoking insights from all sides. I was
Anne Rice, the author of literate vampire novels who embraced Christianity, now says that she is no longer a Christian: I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to
I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been to an actual movie theater. Summer is my time to go to movies, but I haven’t been to any. None of the recent releases have seemed remotely interesting to me. Long airplane trips with entertainment
This is not from an anti-environmentalist skeptic but from Time Magazine: The Deepwater Horizon explosion was an awful tragedy for the 11 workers who died on the rig, and it’s no leak; it’s the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. It’s also inflicting serious economic
Joe Carter at First Things is leery of the Tea Party Movement, saying that true conservatives don’t like enthusiasm or protest demonstrations. He proposes an alternative program to limit government: The Wet Blanket Movement. Unfortunately, he says, the proper leader of this movement is dead.
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