Biblical Archaeology Review has a scholarly examination of why Christmas is celebrated on December 25—and it’s likely not, as commonly believed, timed to coincide with a pagan holiday: The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was borrowed from . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in “On the Square”, R. R. Reno reflects on The Incarnation and William Doino offers the words of Father Alfred Delp as Meditations for the End of Advent . Fr. Delp, executed by the Nazis in 1945, wrote, for example: History now becomes the Son’s mode of existence; historical . . . . Continue Reading »
Why are prolific neologists like Milton, Chaucer, and Shakespeare praised for coining new words while Sarah Palin is mocked for inventing a term like “refudiate”? Gene Veith, the Provost and Professor of Literature at Patrick Henry College, explains how words are (legitimately) invented . . . . Continue Reading »
At Christianity Today , Sarah Pulliam Bailey has an interview with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice about race, foreign policy, and her faith : One of your friends read an article about you and said, “You’re not an evangelical Christian,” and you said “Yeah, but I . . . . Continue Reading »
This could be huge, because it exposes the entire charade that is the Oregon “oversight” over the act of legalized physician-assisted suicide.Here’s the story: Recently when Scotland was considering legalizing assisted suicide—which failed in the Scottish Parliament—two . . . . Continue Reading »
I know some people want it all to be about CO2. But this meteorologist notes that natural cycles could be more important. And here’s a photo of the Thames frozen from 1895:Hmmm. Looks kind of like...now. . . . . Continue Reading »
The allusion to “orange” is a UK wireless network. Enjoy.HT: . . . . Continue Reading »
The following is a transcript of part one of Gayle Trotter’s podcast interview with George Weigel. Gayle talks with Weigel about The End and the Beginning, the newly released second part of his biography of John Paul II. Weigel, the author of fifteen books and a weekly . . . . Continue Reading »
Euthanasia is in the air. We see stories of disabled people in the UK being assisted in suicide. and the prosecutors look the other way. The Dutch are debating whether the elderly “tired of life” should allowed access to assisted suicide. The Swiss Supreme Court declared . . . . Continue Reading »
I finally have applied to become a member of the clergy roll of the North American Lutheran Church , which means leaving the clergy roster of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. (Here is the NALC’s site .) About time, too, inasmuch as the NALC made me a dean back in early . . . . Continue Reading »
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