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
You have got to read Michael Gerson on what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the New York Times Magazine: “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we
What a church service we had Sunday–two baptisms (a baby and an adult) on top of the regular absolution and Holy Communion and a really good sermon. It was onMark 6:30-44, the feeding of the five thousand. If you read it, you will be greatly
Tom Watson came in second at the British Open, after losing a four-hole playoff to Stewart Cink. But still, what a performance for a 59-year-old in a major sporting event! He beat a field of 154 young whippersnappers, the best golfers in the world, including
The Platonic ideal of an anchorman, Walter Cronkite, died at 92. When I was growing up, we would all gather round each evening for the CBS Evening News, and even though there were only four TV channels, the nation seemed better informed than they are
Today is the 40th anniversary of a human being walking on the moon. Charles Krauthammer says we simply must go back to the moon. In the course of his argument, he recounts that “Michael Crichton once wrote that if you told a physicist in 1899
Friday afternoon, some time between 3:05 and 5:00 Central Time, I’ll be on the Issues, Etc. Radio Program talking about vocation. Just click the link to listen. I suspect the interview will be posted on the site’s on demand page shortly thereafter.
I’ve learned about some first-rate resources and sources of resources that I wanted to let you know about: C. F. W. Walther was the founder of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, a man whom historian Mark Noll has described as one of the greatest theologians
The Associated Press has an article on the biggest thing in Christian fiction: novels about the Amish. Also Christian vampire novels. The undisputed industry leader is so-called Amish fiction — typically, romances and family sagas set in contemporary Amish communities. They’re a surprise hit with
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