You’ve got to read Mollie Z. Hemingway’s article in the Wall Street Journal about disciplining children. Here is just a sample: Conservative Christian parenting is often unfairly presented as little more than “spare the rod, spoil the child,” advice distilled from the Bible's book of
Rev. Matt Harrison, head of Lutheran World Relief & Human Care, is on the ground in Haiti Mercy Journeys with Pastor Harrison blogging about the work of LCMS pastoral and medical teams. A sample: I’ve never been so proud and humbled to be a member
In yesterday’s post about Patrick Henry College’s national championship in moot court, tODD commented that “the word ‘moot’ is used rather bizarrely in common parlance. I know that etymologically speaking, it means ‘meeting’ (Entmoot, anyone?). But it is frequently used to mean ‘not worth debating,’
The Supreme Court overturned much of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, ruling that the First Amendment forbids criminal sanctions against political speech: Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may
Scott Brown takes the Kennedy seat in the Senate, McCain-Feingold gets gutted, and now this: Air America Radio, a radio network that was launched in 2004 as a liberal alternative to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators, on Thursday shut down abruptly due to financial
I don’t know if you saw the comment from reader Kirk Anderson the other day, but he offers some good inside information on the situation in Haiti, especially as regards relief efforts: I work in the international development field and I’ve been on the phone
Most of us Cranachers are like Garth on “Wayne’s World”: We fear change. But I hope you like this new look. Stewart Lundy–he of the Fujimura interview, my tech guru, and a former student–offered to redesign the site in the course of some other work
Now that Scott Brown has taken away the Massachusetts Senate seat from the Democrats, he is being hailed as the savior of the Republican party and his tactics will be imitated across the land. Namely, hit economic responsibility hard, but stay away from social and
Some on both the left and right are saying, whether in despair or in elation, that the election of Scott Brown to the Senate and the consequent end of the Democrats’ filibuster proof supermajority means that health care reform is dead. But the Democrats have
Patrick Henry College, which I help run and where I teach, won a national championship. Not in football or basketball, but in moot court, a competition which consists of arguing cases in a simulated appellate court. For the fourth time in six years, Patrick Henry
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