The Washington Post has a story about how Barack Obama is filling his administration with Ivy League grads and academics. From Academic Elites Fill Obama’s Roster: Yale law professor Dan Kahan said several of his colleagues are for the first time considering leaving their perches
A new form of philanthropy, a new way of doing good with other people’s property! Miami activist moves people into foreclosed houses – washingtonpost.com: [Max] Rameau is an activist who has been executing a bailout plan of his own around Miami’s empty streets: He is
I have come into possession of some extra copies of my book Painters of Faith: The Spiritual Landscape in 19th Century America, and I thought I’d make them available to you, the members of the global Cranach community. The book was published by Regnery in
The state of Washington has agreed to allow an atheist group to include one of their signs along with the Christmas tree and the Menorah at the state capitol building. Here is what it says on the sign: “There is only our natural world. Religion
I am teaching a film class, and last night I showed my students The Decalogue by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. It was made in 1988, when Poland was still under Soviet Communism, a year before independence. “The Decalogue” consists of ten one-hour films, one for
A study has found that happiness really is contagious. Unhappiness is not. I’m tempted to make fun of the study, but I won’t. It does illustrate in yet another way that God designed us to need other people and so why Christians need to be
Various conservative Episcopalians have come together to form a new Anglican church body, one that will vie with the Episcopal Church in America as the true representative of this country in the world Anglican communion: Conservative Anglican leaders unveiled on Wednesday the constitution and laws
Every cloud has a silver lining, including our economic woes. Consider these facts: (1)Couples are staying together because they can’t afford to get a divorce. (2) Gasoline prices, which we were so bent out of shape about a few months ago, are plummeting. (3) Housing
Reader and commenter Scylding has pointed out that political pandemonium is breaking out in his homeland of Canada, but those of us in the lower 48 states are not even noticing. He makes a good point, since what is happening up north is of great
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