Slumdog Millionaire dominated the Golden Globes and may do the same with the Oscars. I’ve talked to at least one person who saw it and liked it greatly. A British newspaper is calling it the first film of the Obama era, mainly because it is
Slumdog Millionaire dominated the Golden Globes and may do the same with the Oscars. I’ve talked to at least one person who saw it and liked it greatly. A British newspaper is calling it the first film of the Obama era, mainly because it is
Megachurch pastor Rick Warren, though under attack for being conservative, is offering support–including his church’s own property–to breakaway conservative California Anglicans whose property is being taken away by the liberal Episcopalian hierarchy: The Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of Lake Forest, California-based Saddleback Church and a
The airwaves are going digital, so the government is giving out coupons to help people who need them buy converter boxes. Now the program is out of money and the government is looking for more. But consider, wouldn’t it be a way to help poor
More from St. Athanasius Lutheran Church: Baptism of our Lord Sermon by Rev. James Douthwaite: And all of this He now gives to you. Did you hear? It is what John said right before he baptized Jesus: “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
Over at the “Calvinist cool” post, opinions are still raging. They have moved to the issue of whether being Lutheran or Reformed or whatever should even matter. As I reflected on that, I came across this report: Protestant churchgoers are no more loyal to their
To make up for inviting evangelical pastor Rick Warren to give the prayer at the inauguration, Barack Obama has invited the gay episcopal bishop Gene Robinson to offer a prayer at an earlier inauguration event. See this. What gets me, though, is this comment from
Barack Obama is being urged to institute a national arts czar, possibly holding cabinet-level rank. The Secretary of the Arts would bring together the NEA, NEH, and other government arts initiatives, doing other things for arts education and that sort of thing. The office would
More from Pastor James Douthwaite’s sermon at St. Athanasius Lutheran Church on the Baptism of Our Lord. Here he makes a connection between the gospel lesson, in which John baptizes Jesus and the Holy Spirit descended like a dove, and the Old Testament reading for
Dan Gilgoff at “U.S. News & World Report” makes a provocative generalization about the Christian right while reflecting on the death of Father Neuhaus. From Richard Neuhaus’s Death and the Catholic–Evangelical Tension in Politics: Neuhaus’s death also reminds us that Catholics remain the brains of
Conservative pundit George Will had Barack Obama over for dinner, along with other conservatives David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer, Larry Kudlow, Rich Lowry, Bill Kristol, and possibly others. See this for liberal reaction. I’ve been tormenting my very-Democratic brother by insisting that Barack Obama’s election was
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