Here is a pretty good metaphor from a graduation speech by President Chuck Kelley at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary : “As we are seeing all these reasons for despair and discouragement and all this sense of panic and fear that is sobering men
A number of humanists are trying to organize themselves into congregations so that they can have meaningful rituals without having to believe in God. From Humanist Parents Seek Communion Outside Church: They are not religious, so they don’t go to church. But they are searching
I’ve been listening to Veni Emmanuel: Ancient and Traditional Christmas Carols, an all-Latin songfest from Classical Academic Press. It’s wonderful. One thing I like about medieval music is that the singing is all with pure tones. Vibrato hadn’t been invented yet. Does anyone know why
You want great athletes? Try these guys. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. tells about some exploits that, strangely, do not make the headlines: Yet my enthusiasm for the NFL stars’ athleticism has been overshadowed this year by reports of far more prodigious athleticism demonstrated last April
Thanks to FW for pointing out the latest threat to the rule of law. Consider this: The Bush Administration is planning to use money from the $700 billion financial system bailout for an auto industry bailout. To do that, it is seizing on the fact
Yesterday we posted about the persecution of Christians in the state of Orissa in India. Here is the story of a ten-year-old girl who, though horribly mutilated in that persecution, offers the Hindu extremists who did this to her forgiveness and the love of Jesus.
Here is the answer to complaints about Ten Commandment monuments, Christmas trees, and nativity scenes in public places. Call it art. When people say they are offended, say “but art is SUPPOSED to be offensive.” When people call such displays an establishment of religion, say,
Bill Clinton has released the names of the contributors to his $500 million William Jefferson Clinton Foundation. It is filled with puzzlers. Giving between $10 and $25 million (couldn’t the disclosures be a little more specific) was a Dominican Republic agency that fights AIDS. Wouldn’t
You liked that Christmas poem I posted earlier by the metaphysical poet Robert Southwell. Here is another one by him, one that stranger, even more vivid, and even more powerful. It’s called “The Burning Babe”: As I in hoary winter’s night Stood shivering in the
Barack Obama has asked megachurch pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. This has made gay activists furious, since Rev. Warren supported Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California: Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to perform the invocation
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