David Mills

Those who get a thrill from pondering the Mayan prediction that the world will end in 2012 don’t know what the Mayans thought, writes David Hart in the “On the Square” article for today. After explaining why — which is quite interesting in itself — he examines what this . . . . Continue Reading »

A story from last week, but I just saw it and pass it along for those in the same situation: Over 100 Groups Urge Congress to Preserve Religious Hiring Rights . More than 100 religious organizations are urging members of Congress to reject pending legislation that would prohibit them from . . . . Continue Reading »

Rest isn’t exactly what we usually think, writes R.R. Reno in The Deepest Rest of Restless Man . We sometimes speak of those who have died as finally at rest, or as resting in peace. It’s not a negative image, but then again it’s not positive either. Most of us would rather keep at . . . . Continue Reading »

Britain Can Benefit from Benedict , declares George Weigel in the cover story of the latest issue of the  English magazine Standpoint , a very helpful summation of Benedict’s thought on “the spiritual roots of Europe” (the title of his famous lecture to the Italian . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the respondents to Not Your Smallest Lutheran Church , Russell Saltzman’s report on the recent creation of a new Lutheran body, objected to the conservatives leaving the mainline body to form another one. “[I]t’s not a good thing to be willing to splinter” over . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friends at The King’s College — the college famous for being located in the Empire State Building — have announced the fall schedule for their Distinguished Visitor Series. The visitors are interviewed by the college’s provost, Marvin Olasky, and answer questions from . . . . Continue Reading »

The peculiar Joe Carter (see You Don’t Know Me below)  offers in today’s “On the Square” article a reflection on the hold information technology has on him and what he has done to try to break it. He writes in Unplugging the Info-Tech God that We consider it peculiar . . . . Continue Reading »

In BP’s Unbalanced, Uncharitable Funding , Rob Bluey argues that BP has made the wrong choice in giving money to state governments rather than to private charities. By embracing government bureaucracy over private efficiency, the company is forcing charities struggling to respond to the . . . . Continue Reading »

“In fairness to [Glenn] Beck,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in her “On the Square” column today, The Old Times, the End Times, and Glenn Beck , he and Sarah Palin and the rest managed to craft something nearly unthinkable in 21st Century America: a political event so infused with . . . . Continue Reading »

It was a big move for the Pentecostal World Conference to have an official from the World Council of Churches, wrote a Pentecostal friend responding to my  Need They Speak This Way? , and both sides must have feared that the relation could fall apart before it had really begun, if he said . . . . Continue Reading »