April 22, 2009

Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds announces that Westminster Theological Seminary is selling Gustav Wingren’s “Luther on Vocation.” He asked me how that book influenced me. So I’ll quote him quoting me: Some years ago, a friend gave me a copy of Gustav Wingren’s Luther

April 22, 2009

The guy who would have been a key presidential advisor if Paul McCain had won the election is saying Republicans must embrace gay marriage and avoid the impression that they are a “religious party.” McCain Strategist Warns GOP Risks Becoming ‘Religious Party’: John McCain’s top

April 22, 2009

The left has been celebrating a statement by Focus on the Family founder James Dobson in which he conceded that cultural conservatives have lost all of the battles. But that was not a declaration of surrender. From the Washington Post: The retiring chairman of the

April 21, 2009

Yesterday we welcomed our new sponsor, New Reformation Press. As an example of the resources that NRP offers, notice that the specific ad on this blog (scroll down to the very bottom, in the right panel) features the great Dr. Rod Rosenbladt. (NRP is the

April 21, 2009

I wasn’t going to make a big deal out of this: The White House asked Georgetown to cover a monogram symbolizing Jesus’ name in Gaston Hall, which Obama used for his speech, according to CNSNews.com. The gold “IHS” monogram inscribed on a pediment in the

April 21, 2009

According to historian Susan Jacoby, when President Obama told a group of Muslims that “we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” he was alluding to the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797, which brought an end to the conflict with the Barbary coast pirates. Passed

April 20, 2009

Please scroll way down on this blog until you see in the right panel the ad for New Reformation Press. That enterprise is a new advertiser here at Cranach, whom I hereby welcome, though a number of people associated with NRP are long-time readers and

April 20, 2009

When he was in Turkey, President Obama made this statement: “Although … we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, or a Jewish nation, or a Muslim nation,” said Obama. “We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who

April 20, 2009

The National Institute of Health has issued newguidelines for embryonic stem cell research, in light of President Obama’s desire to remove Bush-era restrictions. Under the new policies, the government will fund stem cell research using–and destroying–extra embryos engendered at fertility clinics and no longer needed.

April 20, 2009

Internet music pirates, that is. Pirate Bay four jailed for breaking copyright in Swedish file-sharing trial – Telegraph: “The founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay have been sentenced to a year in jail in Sweden for breaking copyright laws by helping millions of users


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