I am greatly intrigued by unintended consequences, odd connections, and strangely related events. In a book about health care, Thomas Goetz explains how the Beatles were to blame for our rising health care costs. Back in 1955, a small electronics company named EMI bought Capitol
At our Bible class last Sunday, someone told this story. I suspect it comes from Japan, especially since the person said that he first heard it from Dr. Masaki of Concordia Theological Seminary. A farmer had a horse break out of the fence and run
The story above is kind of Zen, but how would you apply it as an example of Christian wisdom?
A group of conservative leaders have issued a manifesto entitled The Mount Vernon Statement, which attempts to define what political conservatism is all about. Excerpts: A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is
Is this possible? A Vatican official has floated the idea of a shared “ecumenical catechism” as one of the potential fruits of 40 years of dialogue among Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and members of the Reformed churches. “We have affirmed our common foundation in Jesus
The Egyptians believed their pharoahs were gods. As such, they could not marry mere mortals but had to marry others of divine blood within their own families. Even Akhenaten, who promoted a kind of monotheism that taught that the Sun was the only god, followed
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
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