Human rights activists are joining with musicians to ban the practice of playing loud rock music, rap, and other annoying music as a way to break prisoners’ will and turn their brains to mush.: At a recent “Music and Torture” conference near New York, [Chloe]
Stanley Fish is a major postmodern literary critic, but before he got famous for that, he was a 17th century English literature scholar like me. He was consistently good in explicating the religious depths of authors such as John Milton and George Herbert. In fact,
Wesley Smith at the First Things blog reports that ultra-liberal, ultra-progressive, ultra-feminist Sweden has made it legal to abort babies for gender selection, which almost always means getting rid of baby girls: Abortion was supposed to liberate women and protect them from unwanted pregnancies. But
I was asked to review a book entitled The Future of Christian Learning, which contains an essay by the well-regarded historian Mark Noll, an evangelical Christian now on the faculty at Notre Dame. Tying in to yesterday’s discussion on the post “Aliens in a Strange
I came across this List of countries by population and found it fascinating. I did not realize that the USA is the world’s third most populous nation. Nor did I realize that there is a country with only 50 people in it. And quite a
California voters shot down a referendum that would give the state government more money: Schwarzenegger and lawmakers called the special election in February as part of a plan to solve a $42 billion deficit that had been projected through mid-2010. ‘ They asked California voters
Anthony Sacramone at Strange Herring gets serious, issuing a manifesto, of a sort. Read it all at the link, but here are excerpts: The time is coming when Christians of all stripes must consider what it means to be a nation within a nation, alien
I started chronicling this series, so I suppose we should discuss the final choice on “American Idol.” Who should it be? Adam Lambert, the goth gay guy with spectacular talent, or Kris Allen, the low key small town worship leader with a subtler talent? In
When General Motors goes into bankruptcy, its healthy assets will be bought by a new entity owned by the federal government. See GM bankruptcy plan eyes quick sale to gov’t. This will give new meaning to the old tycoon (now spinning in his grave–hook him
At that seminar our congregation sponsored, Prof. John Pless gave a Luther quote that I hadn’t heard of before: “When the true God disappears, fairy tales arrive.” That is the same point Chesterton would make when he observed that when people stop believing in God,
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