September 14, 2009

Last Spring I blogged about a new play called Wittenberg, which is about three individuals whom history and literature place at the University of Wittenberg: two professors, a Dr. Luther and a Dr. Faustus, and a student, a Danish international student named Hamlet. See A

September 14, 2009

My colleague Mark Mitchell has published a scintillating article in Touchstone that touches on one of our recent discussion on homeschooling, offers a model of childraising, and raises something that we hardly ever hear about anymore: the moral imagination. Samples: Are we raising kids who

September 11, 2009

We should always honor the victims and the heroes who gave their lives on this date. And it should remind us to be always vigilant against the threat of terrorism. But, at some point, do we need to put what happened on September 11, 2001,

September 11, 2009

Here is a beautiful, evocative picture taken by the Hubble telescope. vast streams of gas racing at over 600,000mph from a dying star. This gossamer, delicate image is of streams of gas shooting out at 600,000 m.p.h. from a dying star. The beautiful and the

September 10, 2009

Now this is disturbing: One in every 33 women who attend worship services regularly has been the target of sexual advances by a religious leader, a survey released Wednesday says. The study, by Baylor University researchers, found that the problem is so pervasive that it

September 10, 2009

Here is the President’s speech to Congress in which he makes his case for Health Care reform. Are you persuaded? Here is his explanation of the system he wants to implement: First, if you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have

September 10, 2009

Dan Brown, author of the Christian-bashing, made-up-history-presented-as-truth, mega-selling novel The Da Vinci Code has a new book out, The Lost Symbol. This time the conspiracy has to do with Masons and Washington, D.C., as well as the Catholic church. Critics are lampooning the thing, but

September 9, 2009

Robert Benne is an ELCA theologian of great note, who has written helpfully about vocation, the two kingdoms, and education. He has written a stunning diagnosis of his denomination for Christianity Today. It’s called How the ELCA Left the Great Tradition for Liberal Protestantism. Excerpts:

September 9, 2009

We blogged about how a Zondervan editor thinks the handling of the TNIV was a mistake, but, as some of you pointed out, he may have been referring more to mistakes of marketing than of mistakes of translation. Other news reports are suggesting that the

September 8, 2009

Today, as the kids go back to their studies and their parents breathe a sigh of relief (unless they are going back to their kids’ studies too), we think about education. . . .


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