Twenty years ago today in Leipzig, where Bach used to live, a prayer meeting at a Lutheran church became the catalyst for the anti-communist demonstrations that a month later would bring down the Berlin Wall. Here is the story: A prayer service for peace in
Michael Anton makes a good case for The Twilight Zone: “Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible” — that’s how Serling initially described the concept. Every week, the show would have a new setting, a new cast, and a
Harvard economist Martin Feldstein proposes a different approach to health care reform. Under his plan, the government would just ensure that everyone has catastrophic health care insurance that would kick in when you spend 15% of your income on medical expenses. Below that, you would
Italian scientists have claimed to have reproduced the apparent image of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin by wrapping a person in linen, rubbing him with ochre, and putting blood on the result. But now a group of pro-shroud experts is casting doubt on that
The Washington Post reports Antiwar Protesters Turn Their Sights on Obama. Here in our nation’s capital, the old sign carriers that stood in front of the Bush White House have started their vigil in front of the Obama White House. Code Pink is now vilifying
The latest health care proposal is touted as saving the government money: A health-care reform bill drafted by the Senate Finance Committee would expand health coverage to nearly 30 million Americans who currently lack insurance and would meet President Obama’s goal of reducing the federal
The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup post made me recall a C. S. Lewis quip, which together formed this thought: If the problem of pain is a difficult philosophical and theological problem–how could a just God allow the existence of so much pain in the world?–surely
Saying that liberals are on the “left” and conservatives are on the “right” goes back to the old General Assembly in post-revolutionary France. Representatives of the conservative factions–the nobility, the clergy–sat at the right of the meeting hall, while the Jacobins and other radical parties
It’s Nobel Prize season, a time to salute good scholarship and, even more, to marvel at the structures built into nature that the winners have discovered. This year’s Nobel prize for medicine goes to three scientists who discovered how chromosomes stay together and keep their
Rod Dreher at Crunchycon draws attention to a venture designed to make the Bible more conservative. It’s a project of Conservapedia, a conservative version of Wikipedia. The idea is to use Wiki-style mass collaboration to make a new translation of the Bible that accords with
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