April 6, 2009

Durer was one of the first artists to take advantage of printing technology. He carved drawings into blocks of wood, which were then inked and put onto a printing press, which then made thousands of copies. Others had done woodcuts before, but Durer turned the

April 6, 2009

Washington, D.C., is losing its last rock station, with longtime FM stalwart WTGB switching its format to pop. I can still remember when rock ‘n’ roll WAS pop; that is, when it was THE style of popular music. Now I guess it’s just another embattled

April 6, 2009

Movies are made by splicing pieces of film together (or film’s digital equivalent). A key to a movie’s success or failure, its quality or lack thereof, is the art of editing. The “Washington Post” has a good feature on the subject: To Appreciate the Art

April 6, 2009

When I was 8 years old, I read a comic book called “Hercules Unchained” based on a movie that would soon be coming out. (Comic books and movie marketers used to do that.) When the movie came to our little town, I went to the

April 3, 2009

Congress has approved President Obama’s $3.5 trillion budget, with a few details yet to be worked out, but accepting the big-ticket items such as taking on health care: Congressional Democrats overwhelmingly embraced President Obama’s ambitious and expensive agenda for the nation yesterday, endorsing a $3.5

April 3, 2009

George W. Bush's tactician, Karl Rove, examines President Obama's strong arm tactics:

April 3, 2009

We have earlier blogged about Alexis de Toqueville, the 19th century French tourist who nailed the American character and predicted much of the American future. Read what my colleague Mark Mitchell says about how de Toqueville analyzes the American economic proclivities, with relevance for what

April 3, 2009

Mollie Hemingway at GetReligion reports on how the agency responsible for promoting human rights at the United Nations has passed a resolution similar to laws in many nations–including Canada–that forbid the defamation of religion. Especially Islam: Last week, the UN Human Rights Council approved a

April 3, 2009

Christianity Today has an article on religious syncretism, focusing particularly on multi-faith clergy. We have blogged about the Muslim-Episcopalian priest (see below) and the Buddhist-Episcopalian bishop, both of which the article treats in more detail and with revealing quotations. Here is a case I hadn’t

April 3, 2009

Updating what we have posted about earlier, the female priest of the Episcopal Church who converted to Islam has been removed from her office. Bishop Geralyn Wolf of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island deposed Ann Holmes Redding, citing abandonment of Communion of The Episcopal


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