1. The 50 Most Extraordinary Churches of the World The Church of Hallgramur is a Lutheran parish church which is also a very tall one, reaching 74.5 meters (244 ft) height. It is the fourth tallest architectural structure in Iceland. It took incredibly long to build it (38 years!) Construction work . . . . Continue Reading »
Sharon Angle, the Republican candidate for senator in Nevada running against Harry Reid, is now famous at least in liberal circles by attacking insurance mandates by saying “You’re paying for things you don’t even need.” Among them is maternity leave. As she says, . . . . Continue Reading »
This great twentieth-century scholar loved Plato, wrote Christian apologetics, and was a first-rate scholar with secular publications still in print. Sadly, A. E. Taylor was not C. S. Lewis, lived about the same time, and is little read by anyone but specialists while Lewis continues to drive whole . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Spence, the head of Spence Publishing, explains How to Raise Boys Who Read . Many experts, he notes, recognize the problem but predictably offer the wrong answer, along the inevitable lines of “make it easier.” E. Christian Brugger, a senior fellow of the Culture of Life . . . . Continue Reading »
After reading this exchange , I repeatedly banged my head against the wall until I lost consciousness. Before I came to, I had this weird dream: Uncle Sam: “Give me a hundred dollars.” I.M. Citizen: “Why” Uncle Sam: “I’m going to spend it on some things you . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s second “On the Square” article, Show Us the Money , I offer a response to the progressive Catholic’s invocation of “history” and “change,” and a practical, can’t miss, money-back-guaranteed suggestion for responding to the invocation . . . . Continue Reading »
“Abortion is a moral and spiritual issue,’ notes Tom Glessner, President of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, but it’s ” also an economic issue. ” The economic crisis we now face is caused by numerous factors that all relate to flawed governmental . . . . Continue Reading »
Extroverted Evangelicals can drive introverts away, observes a Presbyterian minister in Introverts in America . And worse: Even more dangerous is the tendency of evangelical churches to unintentionally exalt extroverted qualities as the “ideals” of faithfulness. Too often . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama promised transparency and improved democratic responsiveness, but has delivered nothing but obfuscation and prevarication in governance, at least when it comes to Obamacare. Few examples more vividly illustrate this anti accountability approach than the sorry history of . . . . Continue Reading »
“It’s as if he’s trying to spread his personal chronic sickness of Anhedonia,” is Mary Rose Somarriba’s judgment of Woody Allen’s latest movies. Writing in The Grim Reaper of Comedy , today’s “On the Square” article, she argues that his movies . . . . Continue Reading »
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