Novelist John Updike died of lung cancer at age 76. One of the most acclaimed of contemporary American authors, Updike was raised a Lutheran. An active church member all of his life, he had sojourns in the Christian existentialism of Kierkegaard and the neo-orthodoxy of
Seven Stanzas at Easter by John Updike Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall. It was not as the flowers, each
Republicans trying to help the economy have pushed for “trickle down economics.” That is, help businesses, who, in turn, will hire more people, which will increase prosperity for all. Democrats tend to favor what we might term “seep up economics.” (Hey, maybe there is my
Columnist David Brooks discusses a book by political scientist Hugh Heclo entitled “On Thinking Institutionally,” which he contrasts with the individualistic approach to life. Isn’t another name for what he is talking about VOCATION? “In this way of living, to borrow an old phrase, we
The Covenant School is a first-rate classical Christian school in Dallas. It’s in the news because its girls’ basketball team beat an opponent 100 to 0. This has gained Covenant nothing but criticism. The school has felt constrained to apologize and has even offered to
Nancy Pelosi’s scheme to include massive spending on family planning as part of the bailout plan is being dropped, thanks to personal intervention from President Obama. According to this article, the President responded to Republican criticism by asking Democratic congressmen to pull the measure. (See
Before he was inaugurated, Barack Obama’s approval rating was 83%. Now it’s 68%. (source) And no wonder. He has been in office a whole week and the economy is still bad! Surely a week is plenty of time to fulfill all of his promises. Ah,
Civil engineering professor Henry Petroski makes a useful distinction: “We will restore science to its rightful place,” President Obama declared in his inaugural address. That certainly sounds like a worthy goal. But frankly, it has me worried. If we want to “harness the sun and
Thanks to Tickletext for citing in a comment this quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Creation and Fall: [Man] is free for the worship of the Creator. In the language of the Bible, freedom is not something man has for himself but something he has for others.
The new urbanist scholar Joel Kotkin points out that Washington, D.C. is rapidly becoming the center of all American power. Used to, America had many different centers of power: Each state had its governmental capital. In business, the financial industry had New York City; automobiles
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