A while ago, we blogged about Russian scholar Igor Panarin, who is predicting that just as Communism’s collapse led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the current seeming collapse of Capitalism will mean the dissolution of the United States of America. So what will
In another unlikely-seeming example of God bringing someone to faith, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of one of the founders of the radical Palestinian group Hamas, is now a Christian, having been converted in an Israeli jail. FOXNews reports: Yousef said he was indoctrinated at
We often hear about “dying churches,” by which is usually meant a congregation that is not growing but rather shrinking; whose members are getting old; or even one where there seems to be little excitement. To call a church “dying” or even “dead” is highly
CNN assembled a panel of media and political insiders to make their predictions for 2009. We’ll hold them accountable and check to see how they did next year. It seems that most of them simply extrapolated from today’s situations, for good or bad. What does
Now that the Democrats are safely in power, the Washington Post can relax and change its tune. On today’s front page are two big articles with the sub-heads The War, in a Sense, Is Over (on the remaining challenges for Iraqis) and Bolten and Hadley
Here is a rather inspirational article about Joseph Cao, the newly-elected G.O.P. Congressman from Louisiana and the first Vietnamese-American to hold such a high office. It is a story of Christian vocation, how he left a Jesuit seminary because he felt called to politics. From
Also Happy New Year! But today is also the ancient feast celebrating The Circumcision and Name of Jesus. The week after Christmas, the Christchild was circumcised, thus taking upon Himself the fulfillment of the Law, a rite in which He was also officially given His
Here we go again with our annual predictions for the new year. What do you think will happen in 2009? See yesterday’s post for how it went last year. Some of those predictions were of bigger trends that may, in fact, be taking place. Others
Victor Davis Hanson, with a wicked allusion to George Orwell, predicts that as soon as Barack Obama is president, the media will change our bad news into good news. From Life At New Animal Farm Won’t Be All That Bad: By July, we will come
Happy New Year’s Eve! Today is a good day to look back on the previous year. Tomorrow is a good day to contemplate the year to come. So that’s what we’ll do on this blog.
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