Anthony Sacramone

That is, the awards given to excellence in magazine (online and print) publishing by ASME (the American Society of Magazine Editors). Here are this year’s nominees . Like the Emmies, a lot of the same ole people giving the same ole people the same ole recognition. . . . . Continue Reading »

KFUO radio , the voice of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, for many years has broadcast a popular interview program, Issues, Etc., hosted by Todd Wilken. It offered sound apologetics and a panoply of interesting guests offering orthodox Christian commentary on the issues of the day. I should say . . . . Continue Reading »

has passed away at the age of 54 . Very sad. Best known for The English Patient , for which he won a Best Director Oscar, Minghella directed a film on a much smaller scale that I much preferred, Mr. Wonderful . No great masterpiece, but if you came from a working-class Italian-American background, . . . . Continue Reading »

From March 4, 2008, on why those darn Christians just ain’t goin’ away. Enjoy. Thanks to ReformedCatholicism.com . . . . . Continue Reading »

The inimitable Edward T. Oakes forwards this for our reading pleasure. Here’s a snippet: The problem with the secular narrative is not that it assumes progress is inevitable (in many versions, it does not). It is the belief that the sort of advance that has been achieved in science can be . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . if your definition of nigh is 7.59 billion years . One of the scientists responsible for calculating the end-time figures was asked to comment further: Dr. Smith called the new result “a touch depressing” in a series of e-mail messages. But “looked at another way,” he . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . the results are often unintentionally funny. Here’s Ricky Gervais’ take on God in the most recent issue of Best Life . Look, Gervais the comic actor is a scream. The Office undoubtedly deserved the accolades it garnered (despite one or two errant episodes, in which tastelessness . . . . Continue Reading »

M.Z. Hemingway, journalist/blogger extraordinaire at Get Religion , has written this handy reference tool , now available at Modern Reformation magazine. Yes, atheism is not only old, it’s decrepit, and the only things new in the new atheism are those bar-code thingies on the dust jackets. . . . . Continue Reading »

The Episcopal Church has come in for more than its share of bad press over the past few years/decades, and the Anglican Communion is quickly becoming a synonym for entropy. But there are still bastions of orthodoxy that unabashedly hoist the flag of traditional 39-Article Anglicanism as it reaches . . . . Continue Reading »

On February 25, we posted as the Daily Article an interview I conducted with Timothy Keller , author of the new bestseller The Reason for God . It was picked up by quite a few, mostly evangelical blogsites and has resulted in our being added to a hefty list of blogrolls—something we certainly . . . . Continue Reading »