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
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
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
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.
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
More in our ongoing series on the language of the new administration. . . .FDR had the New Deal. JFK had the New Frontier. Now President Obama has a phrase for his economic program: The New Foundation. The metaphor raises the question: Is this new
“American Idol” is based on “Britain’s Got Talent,” whose season started a few days ago. Simon Cowell, in a long commute, is a judge on both shows. On the first episode, a 47-year-old decidely unglamorous Scottish woman named Susan Boyle took the stage to jeers
The Supreme Court of Canada is going to take up a case that might decide the legality of polygamy. Having already legalized gay marriage, Canada may find it difficult to draw the line at polygamy. The desire to accommodate Muslims, especially the large number if
More from ex-atheist A. N. Wilson, in an interview in which he was asked, “What’s the worst thing about being faithless?” When I thought I was an atheist I would listen to the music of Bach and realize that his perception of life was deeper,
A. N. Wilson at one time was a promising Christian writer, penning essays and novels that constituted an odd, though not quite orthodox, apologetics. Then the British author, in his own words, converted to atheism. He became notable for his incredibly hostile biographies of C.
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