The governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, just up and disappeared for six days. No one could find him. Foul play was suspected. Then he turned up. He said he was getting away from it all by hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Then the story
The governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, just up and disappeared for six days. No one could find him. Foul play was suspected. Then he turned up. He said he was getting away from it all by hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Then the story
Michael Gerson raises some interesting points about how PBS is now enforcing (with some odd exceptions) ban on religious programming: On Tuesday, the Public Broadcasting System’s board of directors decided that member stations could no longer add religious programming. The board was applying a 1985
Despite Marx’s dialectical materialism and all that about religion being the opiate of the people, the Communist Party USA has started an initiative to recruit people of faith. The Communist Party USA has created a new Religion Commission to reach out to “welcome people of
The Touchstone Magazine blog notes a curious phenomenon: The appointment of a Roman Catholic nun as dean of San Francisco Theological Seminary illustrates the truth of the saying “to be Reformed is to be ecumenical”, says the general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed
Release of more of President Nixon’s taped conversations show his reaction to the Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion. From Tapes Reveal Nixon’s View of Abortion – NYTimes.com: On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down state criminal abortion laws in Roe v.
Liberal evangelical Jim Wallis, editor of “Sojourners” is saying that the satirical comedian Jon Stewart of the “Daily Show” is a prophet. Wallis thinks the Old Testament prophets were all about condemning social injustice, so since that’s what Stewart does, he is one too. Stewart
More details on why the Chrysler dealers who found their franchises taken away from them believe they were ill-used by the company that is now part of the portfolio of the federal government. From Dealers Say They Were Led Astray in Chrysler’s Final Days –
Here is a good quote from C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity that came up at a Washington Monthly blog in the context of a discussion of vicious ad hominem blog comments: “Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that
I’m glad to see Joe Carter, one of the pioneers of the Christian blogosphere with his Evangelical Outposts, blogging at the First Things blog. In a recent post, he notes that pro-choicers are now articulating some of their moral qualms about abortion, citing some comments
Jonah Goldberg on why big business doesn’t want capitalism: The coup de grâce of capitalism’s murder is at the hands of its most successful child: big business. Everywhere we look we see the great and once-great beneficiaries of free markets running to the state for
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