Food writer Jane Black tries to make her own ketchup and concludes that this may be one of the few cases in which homemade falls short of the industrial brand. That is because Heinz Ketchup is the Platonic ideal (my word, not hers): Ketchup, apparently,
Christianity may be declining in the West and Islam is surging, but in the world as a whole, it’s a different story. So says Ryan Mauro: It’s true that Islam (as well as atheism and universalism) is growing in the West, mostly because of high
Empirical research is finding evidence that old people are not only wiser than younger people (a traditional belief) but also that they are happier too (which may seem counterintuitive): Contrary to largely gloomy cultural perceptions, growing old brings some benefits, notably emotional and cognitive stability.
Anne Applebaum cites scenes from Mark Twain and concludes that if Tom Sawyer were alive today, we would medicate him into submission: Try, if you can, to strip away the haze of nostalgia and sentiment through which we generally perceive Mark Twain’s world, and imagine
So what do you think about that flight attendant who got fed up with a passenger whose overhead luggage fell on him after landing, whereupon he got on the intercom to cuss out the passenger, then grabbed some beer off the service car and activated
Last weekend, I finally saw Cars (2006). What a good movie! I didn’t expect from the big-eyed automobiles that I saw in the toystores that this computer animated flick from Pixar/Disney would have such lively characters, such a witty script, and such an evocative story. One
Read this interview with sociologist Rodney Stark on how the so-called “mainline” liberal denominations have dwindled into irrelevance: Are Evangelicals the New Mainline?. Among the many interesting points he makes is that the only congregations in those traditions that are doing well are those with
An interesting factoid from an article about Stephen Hawking saying that human beings will need to leave earth for outer space in order to survive: University of Michigan astrophysicist Katherine Freese told Big Think that the closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. That’s 4.2
USA Today reports that, after decades of decline, more and more young adults are going into the ministry: For years, churches across the USA have prayed that more young people would explore careers in ministry as a wave of Baby Boomer pastors prepares to retire.
New Mexico governor Bill Richardson is considering issuing a pardon for Billy the Kid, the wild West gunslinger who killed as many as 21 men. The descendants of Pat Garrett, the lawman who shot the outlaw in 1881, are opposing the idea. See A pardon for
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