Name: John PiperWhy you’ve heard of him: Dr. Piper is one of the most influential and popular preacher/authors in American evangelicalism.Position: Senior Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN; Host of the daily radio program Desiring God; Founder of Desiring God . . . . Continue Reading »
Several years ago I started an blog series that provided brief profiles of influential evangelicals. The purpose was to help those who may see a name mentioned by the media—Albert Mohler, Richard Land, Jim Wallis—but not know about them or why they are significant.At the instigation . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s cheering news: The country’s Catholic bishops have just issued a statement that in their book The Sexual Person (which gives the game away right there) two Creighton University theologians “base their arguments on a methodology that marks a radical departure from the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Paris Review , the literary journal co-founded by George Plimpton, has posted online its extensive archive of interviews with famous literary figures. The site includes interviews with TS Eliot , William Faulkner , Ralph Ellison , Ernest Hemingway , Simone de Beauvoir , Saul Bellow , . . . . Continue Reading »
The story of an unlikely friendship between George Bernard Shaw and the heavyweight fighter Gene Tunney, Brains, Brawn and an Unlikely Bond . They even spent a month on holiday together in 1929. Two stories about men from Salon.com: Men Edge Into Women’s Marathons (the jerks) and . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief! A woman underwent the most extreme surgery imaginable to be cured from cancer. She was literally cut apart. From the story:A Canadian woman is the first patient to undergo an operation in which doctors cut her body in half to remove a tumor—and survive. Janis Ollson, 31, was . . . . Continue Reading »
We have discussed the injunction issued by Judge Royce C. Lamberth against President Obama’s ESCR funding policy—and the mendacious legislative response of the likes of Arlen Specter that would authorize the Feds to fund cloning research in addition to restoring Obama’s more . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel’s The Pius Wars, Continued is now up on “On the Square.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Christians in India suffer the effects of the acts of individual Americans, reports the leader of a mission agency , who said Muslim mobs in India destroyed a church and a school in response to the burning of the Koran in Michigan. Although things appear to have settled down now, the incident . . . . Continue Reading »
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