This little part of Virginia where we live is turning out a crop of notable 16-year-olds. First Maddy Curtis made “American Idol” and now Ashley Caldwell from just down the other side of the road is in the Winter Olympics: It’s hard to imagine that
This little part of Virginia where we live is turning out a crop of notable 16-year-olds. First Maddy Curtis made “American Idol” and now Ashley Caldwell from just down the other side of the road is in the Winter Olympics: It’s hard to imagine that
You are dust. And to dust you shall return. Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging
T. S. Eliot was one of the most important founders of the modernist movement in literature, a cutting-edge poet of the first order. And yet he was converted to Christianity. He also began calling himself a conservative and a classicist. But he still wrote cutting-edge
I am very grateful to Dan, who had said that he was influenced by my book Spirituality of the Cross and, in answer to Paul McCain’s query, explained why. I am posting it here, even though it’s long, because you might have missed it. I
Walter Russell Mead at the American Interest invokes Luther’s reforms and claims that the church today needs another structural reformation: The Christian churches in the United States are in trouble for all the usual reasons — human sinfulness and selfishness, the temptations of life in
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. As a result, this is traditionally the day known as Fat Tuesday, during which people indulged in whatever they were going to give up for Lent. That devolved into the decadent hedonism associated with carnival or Mardi
If you haven’t heard, U.S., allied, and Afghan national troops are engaged in a major, large-scale operation in Afghanistan, attacking the region in which the Taliban are at their greatest strength. U.S. launches major surge against Taliban in Afghanistan – washingtonpost.com.
I am not for a minute condoning the Evangelical, Catholic, and Voodoo interfaith services, nor am I agreeing that Haiti’s earthquake was divine punishment against its government. But in the aftermath of the earthquake, it appears that Haitians are in a mood to cast off
On Saturday, I posted something about the release of the new revised version of my book Spirituality of the Cross, in which I told about the changes, explained what I was trying to do, and said a few things about how the book has reached
Happy Presidents Day. And yet, what are celebrating? The holiday was originally to commemorate the birthday of George Washington, a man who certainly deserves such an honor. Then what we might call semantic inflation clicked in: What started as a specific day of the year
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