Longtime Cranach reader and commenter Dan Kempen “got” yesterday’s post Makoto Fujimura on art, paganism, and worship. His reflections are worth considering in themselves: God is in the world, not merely as the one who has authority over it, but as the one who is
Republican Scott Brown upset the Democrat Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts senate race. This means the Democrats lose their filibuster-proof supermajority, enabling Republicans to block legislation. It also leaves the Democrats traumatized, losing the late Teddy Kennedy’s seat as Brown’s campaign theme of fiscal responsibility
Liberal pundits are proclaiming doom and apocalypse at the prospect of Kennedy’s seat in the Senate going to a Massachusetts Republican, even before the election and the bitter news. So reports POLITICO.com: For the pundits on MSNBC and the liberal blogosphere, the prospect of a
The United States is sending 10,000 troops to Haiti to help with disaster relief. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says, however, that they will have no policing role: The U.S. military expects to have around 10,000 troops in Haiti and in ships offshore by Monday
My former student and current. . . tech guru Stewart Lundy has a fascinating interview with via Makoto Fujimura, the acclaimed Japanese-American abstract artist who is also a devout Christian. Read the whole interview. What struck me the most was what he said about paganism
According to liberal Bible scholarship, the Bible was not written down until the 6th century B.C., after the Babylonian captivity. Some liberal scholars deny that Israel existed before that, rejecting the historicity even of King David, as well as the Exodus from Egypt and the
Today is the big election in Massachusetts, with Republican newcomer Scott Brown threatening the Democratic operative Martha Coakley’s plan to assume the Senate seat of the late Edward Kennedy. If a Republican wins in this most Democratic of states, that icy chill you may feel
Issues, Etc., named Cranach the “blog of the week” for the post No End Runs Around the Cross. That entitles us to display this: Actually, my pastor, Rev. James Douthwaite, who came up with that illustration, deserves the honor for it.
Pat Robertson callously brought up the old legend that Haiti owed its independence from the French to a pact with the devil. That story probably originated as an attempt to answer the question how could a group of slaves in revolt defeat the French army
John Boot says that the ultra-violent “Book of Eli” is “a proudly Christian movie.” Did anyone see it last weekend? Is that correct? Is it worth seeing? Cross I Am Legend with The Ten Commandments and you’ve got The Book of Eli, a genuinely religious
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