So, for reasons that I don’t understand, I got to thinking about the Ben Stiller movie Night At the Museum yesterday. Ben Stiller plays a failed inventor and entrepreneur who has trouble holding a stable job partly because he keeps investing so much of himself into failed business ventures. . . . . Continue Reading »
Dear Mr. President: Thank you for taking time to share with us, more than once now, your reflections on the Zimmerman case, just as you took time to share your thoughts on the case involving Professor Gates of Harvard. But Mr. President, if you could spare just another moment, I respectfully . . . . Continue Reading »
On Powerline, Steve Hayward mentions Postmodern Conservative as a “Blog to Log”. The other blogs to log are interesting and worth looking at. Hey, Carl! Hayward notes Acculturated.com , too. . . . . Continue Reading »
The young doctor stood in the packed auditorium, microphone in hand, glancing from downcast face to downcast face. Amidst that awkward disquiet, his honest, good-intentioned query suffocated in a hundred medical minds, asphyxiating under a pillow of political correctness. The young doctor, son of a . . . . Continue Reading »
The recent New York Times exploration of the sexual world of the University of Pennsylvania claims that competitiveness and insecurity feed off each other to drive campus sexual culture: Typical of elite universities today, Penn is filled with driven young women, many of whom . . . . Continue Reading »
Summer intern Katherine Devorak’s On the Square reflects on her Fuller Seminary class, which “empowers and equips a new generation of artists and church leaders to effectively integrate worship, theology, and the arts.” The class instilled a love of the Church’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart traces the decline of traditional denominationalism in today’s column : A 2009 Barna survey found that denominational commitments have gone squishy in mainline Protestant churches, and Evangelicals don’t fare much better than the rest. After a similar . . . . Continue Reading »
As Matt Cantirino notes today, Christianity Today has posted about a new list, published by the real-estate blog, Movoto, of the “saintliest” cities in the United States . Can you guess number one on the list? Bet you can’t. It’s Babylon on the Hudson–and my home . . . . Continue Reading »
Someone recently told me that he was going to Detroit. I felt sorry for him, knowing that last trips to Detroit, driving form the Cleveland area, had been through areas that looked as devastated as anything seen in post WWII photos. I had not read of improvement, in fact of . . . . Continue Reading »
Is New York America’s Holiest City? Melissa Steffan, Gleanings Paper Keys and George Tyrrell Anthony Esolen, Catholic Thing Missing Billy Graham’s Role with Eisenhower Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism Young Evangelicals Are Getting High RVD, Christian Pundit Meeting the Hasids Corinna . . . . Continue Reading »
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