My colleague both at Patrick Henry College and at World Magazine, Les Sillars, has written a sly and funny take on the New Atheists in Salvo Magazine, a “Touchstone Magazine” venture for young people. In the Screwtapian form of an address at an atheists’ convention,
President Obama said he’ll pull back the “Buy American” provisions in the stimulus package after the European Union threatened a trade war, such as the one that proved so disastrous during the Great Depression. He also stepped away from nominating two tax evaders for administrative
Senate Lacks Votes to Pass Stimulus – washingtonpost.com: Senate Democratic leaders conceded yesterday that they do not have the votes to pass the stimulus bill as currently written and said that to gain bipartisan support, they will seek to cut provisions that would not provide
As the aesthetics czar at Patrick Henry College, a request to allow a particular music group on campus came across my computer. I’m not a big fan of contemporary Christian music, but no, I was told, this group isn’t really like that. It was a
I’ve got to show you this new picture of our granddaughter Elizabeth:
Religious Discrimination Embedded in Stimulus Bill| Christianpost.com: Republicans, Christians Blast Contraceptive Spending in Stimulus Plan The legislative team at American Center for Law and Justice has noticed that a provision in Section 803 of the measure contains language that would prohibit schools that accept funding
Thanks to Mollie Z. Hemingway for harvesting some other great John Updike quotes from various newspaper obituaries: ”I remember the times when I was wrestling with these issues that I would feel crushed. I was crushed by the purely materialistic, atheistic account of the universe,”
No, this isn’t the one about sex and vegetables. The SuperBowl featured lots of commercials about sex. But this commercial raises a topic that is far more subversive, one that is so taboo that it must not be so much as mentioned in polite company,
Google and NASA are collaborating to start Singularity University, an institute that will prepare the way for the time when, in a few decades, computers will become smarter than human beings and will start solving the world’s problems on their own: Google and Nasa are
Looking for something else, I came across some material on acedia, that spiritual state characterized by boredom, ennui, apathy, listlessness, just giving up and not caring anymore. It’s a condition much discussed and treated in the centuries-long literature of spiritual directors, for churches that have
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