Today is Memorial Day, a holiday that goes back to the custom of decorating the graves of Civil War veterans. From that, it became the day to honor those who gave their lives fighting for their country. It then became for many families, like mine,
Today is Memorial Day, a holiday that goes back to the custom of decorating the graves of Civil War veterans. From that, it became the day to honor those who gave their lives fighting for their country. It then became for many families, like mine,
The veterans who fought World War II are passing away and will not be with us very much longer. Those old men at the VFW hall or who sit at the back in church or who shuffle along in walkers at the nursing homes–many of
We and the whole world should be thankful in Sri Lanka that the ultra-bloody separatist group the Tamil Tigers–inventors of the suicide belt, recruiters of child warriors, murderers of Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi as well as thousands and thousands more–have accepted defeat, their leader
A Cranach summit meeting took place in Seattle, as regular commenters tODD and Bror got together. They normally argue with each other, but here we see them celebrating their unity in faith with a Lutheran beverage. (tODD, is uncharacteristically on the right, and Bror is
Watch closely the debate in New Hampshire over gay marriage. Though passage is likely, a recent vote on the measure failed in the House. Not because the state congressmen opposed gay marriage, but because the bill included a conscience clause that would have allowed clergy
Human rights activists are joining with musicians to ban the practice of playing loud rock music, rap, and other annoying music as a way to break prisoners’ will and turn their brains to mush.: At a recent “Music and Torture” conference near New York, [Chloe]
Stanley Fish is a major postmodern literary critic, but before he got famous for that, he was a 17th century English literature scholar like me. He was consistently good in explicating the religious depths of authors such as John Milton and George Herbert. In fact,
Wesley Smith at the First Things blog reports that ultra-liberal, ultra-progressive, ultra-feminist Sweden has made it legal to abort babies for gender selection, which almost always means getting rid of baby girls: Abortion was supposed to liberate women and protect them from unwanted pregnancies. But
I was asked to review a book entitled The Future of Christian Learning, which contains an essay by the well-regarded historian Mark Noll, an evangelical Christian now on the faculty at Notre Dame. Tying in to yesterday’s discussion on the post “Aliens in a Strange
I came across this List of countries by population and found it fascinating. I did not realize that the USA is the world’s third most populous nation. Nor did I realize that there is a country with only 50 people in it. And quite a
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