In yet another death in our declining stock of truly creative people, the British lawyer and author John Mortimer has died. He was best known for his series of comical mysteries featuring the curmudgeonly barrister Rumpole of the Bailey and his formidable wife “She Who
So the Arizona Cardinals, perennial losers with a supposedly washed-up quarterback Kurt Warner, are in the Super Bowl, playing against the perennial powerhouse Pittsburgh Steelers. See Super Bowl a contrast of opposite franchises. Sentiment will require pulling for the underdogs, though as a follower of
Barack Obama called for this Martin Luther King Day to be a day of service. That’s good. Holidays need some special activities to set them apart and make them catch on. We’ll see if this becomes a tradition.
Look at the many examples of vocation at work in what happened with that water landing in the Hudson River: All Survive Jet’s Splashdown in Hudson River – washingtonpost.com. The pilot, the crew, the passengers, and the boaters who rallied to help them all loved
More from St. Athanasius Lutheran Church: Baptism of our Lord Sermon by Rev. James Douthwaite: And not just any ol’ life do we now live, but as St. Paul said, a new life. His life. A Christ life. Not because we have to, but because
President Bush said good-bye to the nation as he prepared to leave office after eight years. Here is his farewell address. He has been extraordinarily hated and derided. And yet Barack Obama is apparently going to continue many of his policies. So what do you
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.”
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