As more and more facts come out about the incident between a police officer and Harvard professor Henry Gates, assessing the significance of what happened becomes more and more complicated. What do you think of this take from Kansas City Star columnist Grant Martin? Who
Matthew Kratz at Sola Fide posts some factoids from Mark Noll’s new book, The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith: This past Sunday it is possible that more Christian believers attended church in China than in all of so-called “Christian
How Russia is trying to rebuild a moral and religious infrastructure while honoring the principle of free choice, sort of. The Associated Press: Russian pupils to have choice of religion, ethics: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced a pilot project Tuesday that will require schoolchildren to
The blog 1517 linked to my post on the National Education Association and its vote to push for gay marriage. That not all teachers agree with the political activity of their union came out in our discussion, but the 1517 post provoked a comment from
So argues sportswriterSally Jenkins , thinking of Tom Watson and Lance Armstrong and defending Bret Favre’s desire to keep coming out of retirement: Athletes such as Favre have it right. Studies show that retirement is no good for you. Even if you hate the job
In the health care debate, lawmakers from every party have apparently reached consensus on at least one approach: require all Americans to have health insurance. Many of the uninsured are young and healthy adults who opt out of employer coverage and otherwise do without. If
Former President Jimmy Carter has written an op-ed piece in which he announces that he has severed his ties with the Southern Baptist convention due to that church-body’s teaching that women should not be pastors and should be submissive to their husbands. But the thing
The National Education Association, the country’s major teachers’ union, had more than education on its mind at its annual convention: The National Education Association has thrown its full support behind homosexual “marriage.” The NEA recently held its annual convention in San Diego, California, where
Terry Eagleton is a Marxist literary critic who lambastes the new atheists. He has written a book on the subject, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate. Here is an interesting conversation with him in the atheist publication New Humanist, which begins with
Several years ago, there was a fascinating discussion of the use of “praise songs” in worship at Mere Comments, the blog of Touchstone Magazine that I was just alerted to. Timothy Striplin, a young church musicians, had this to say: Seizing on the idea that
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