The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday today and the nation marks a milestone. Though a few retired presidents have reached a 90t...
Abortion at the center: Is Kamala Harris running for president of the United States or of Planned Parenthood? Vice President Kamala Harris told her...
“Never give in”: What in the world are they saying about Winston Churchill? My intense interest in Winston Churchill began when I was a 10-year-old...
The Wall Street Journal reports that auto makers are rushing to put Web browsing technology at the reach of drivers. As the paper explains: In an era when people can check email or browse the Web while doing everything from grocery shopping to lying ...
A university-based Evangelical Christian Union in Birmingham, England has been suspended by university officials because it limits membership to Christians and uses the words "men" and "women" in its constitution. From The Times [London]: Andy Weath ...
Read Nicholas D. Kristof's article, "Genocide in Slow Motion," The New York Review of Books, February 9, 2006. Also, check out these Internet-based resources: U.S. State Department Survey of Sudan, U.S. State Department Documenting Atrocities in Da ...
I guess it had to happen. "The Simpsons" is now broadcast to the Middle East as "Al Shamshoon." Something must be lost in the translation. The cartoon has been repackaged with Homer Simpson now identified as "Omar Shamshoon," patriarch of the Sham ...
Matthew Battles, who works in the Houghton Library at Harvard University, has written an elegant book on the "unquiet" history of the library. It is a feast for a bibliophile, and Battles takes his reader through the travail of the library, from Alex ...
Reuters news service now reports that the Vatican is not considering a rehabilitation of Judas after all. The Times [London], one of the world's most respected newspapers, had reported January 12 that the Vatican was proposing to reconsider Judas' gu ...
In the February 9, 2006 edition of The New York Review of Books, Alison Lurie of Cornell University reviews The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe movie and two books about C. S. Lewis. Along the way, she also offers her criti ...
Jack Kenny, the creator of NBC's, The Book of Daniel, is desperately trying to save his show from an almost certain cancellation. He accused conservative Christians of being "bullies" and blamed the show's weak ratings on evangelicals. He didn't say ...
Centurion at Flame of Fire has an important post that was forwarded to me. It seems that the publisher of Marcia Z. Nelson's book, The Gospel According to Oprah, sent out a postcard to members of the Christian Booksellers Association that featured th ...
Journalist James P. Gannon offers a bracing picture of what happens when secularism takes hold of a civilization in "Is God Dead in Europe?," published in USA Today. Consider these observations: "Common wisdom has it that alcoholics outnumber pract ...