An amusing article in the Washington Post tells about a Target and other icons of suburbia moving into a cool, hipster neighborhood. At first the cool people would go to these places in order to be ironic. Then they start liking them, which makes them
If Luther is the definitive Lutheran theologian, and Melanchthon is the definitive Lutheran scholar, and Cranach is the definitive Lutheran artist, and Bach is the definitive Lutheran musician, then Rheticus is the definitive Lutheran scientist. A colleague of Luther and Melanchthon at the University of
Virtually every recording artist does it eventually. Now Bob Dylan is recording a Christmas album. Reportedly four songs are already in the can: “Must Be Santa,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” and “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” HT: Francis Beckwith at
Mark Regnerus in Christianity Today makes the point that the Biblical solution for sexual immorality is not so much abstinence as marriage. He thinks many Christians have bought into the world’s views of marriage and have forgotten God’s design. While Americans are getting married later
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is going to try to make the leap from making money from newspaper subscriptions to making money from subscriptions to online news. He has announced that he will start charging people to access all of his news sites. That would include
July 30 was the day of commemoration for Robert Barnes, the English Lutheran who was martyred for his faith. I had always assumed that he was killed by Roman Catholic inquisitors, but he wasn’t. He was burned at the stake by Henry VIII, years after
The government-run insurance plan that would compete with private carriers in the proposed health care legislation would cover abortions. Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal
A study of college students has found that science majors do not lose their religion as much as humanities students do, suggesting that science is not as corrosive to faith as postmodernism is. From Christianpost.com: Results from a recent study on the impact of a
From A Canadian Newspaper Apologizes for Inventing a Scandal – NYTimes.com: In a lengthy correction, the New Brunswick newspaper said that “there was no credible support” for the article’s claim that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had pocketed the wafer during the funeral of a former
The Florida Marlins have won two World Series in their brief 17-year life span. But they have baseball’s lowest attendance figures and lowest payroll. Their strategy is whenever they get a good player to get rid of him to save money. And yet, no matter
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