The Most Popular Unknown Novelist in America?
by Joe CarterThe New York Times has a profile of one of the world’s most sucessful novelists. Can you guess who it might be? And no, it’s not Stephen King, John Grisham, or Dan Brown (over the last few years he has sold more books than all of them combined ). Here are some other clues: Since 2006, . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare Alternatives: Community Health Clinics
by Wesley J. SmithMy pal Tom Lorentzen used to administer Medicare for the Western Region. Tom is a very sober and responsible political thinker who believes in solving problems from a conservative bent.Today, he has a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle pushing a plan that would help Obama pivot away from his . . . . Continue Reading »
Draft Paul Volcker as Fed Chairman!
by David P. GoldmanI posted this proposal at the “Inner Workings” blog but believe the issue is important enough to reiterate here:Today’s lead Bloomberg News report that the French banks were willing to accept a haircut on their AIG swaps suggests that the New York Fed lied about the . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal Rights Activist’s “Pie in the Face” Assault Should be Prosecuted
by Wesley J. SmithTo protest the seal hunt, and animal rights activist put a pie in the face of a Canadian government minister. From the story:An incident in which the federal fisheries minister was hit with a pie by a seal hunt protester should be seen as a terrorist act, says a Liberal MP. Gerry Byrne made the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Claims of the Roman Catholic Church: The First Evangelicals’ Response
by Paul T. McCainIn a previous post, I posted remarks about the catholicity of the Lutheran Church. It still is receiving a response. I thought it might be good to go on record here on this “Evangel” blog what the first evangelicals had to say about the claims of the Roman Catholic Church, when they . . . . Continue Reading »
The Savior State
by Joe CarterThe functions of the family and church, says Douglas Farrow, are being replaced by the state : When I speak of the audacity of the state, the kind of state I have in mind is what we may call the savior state. The main characteristic of the savior state is that it presents itself as the . . . . Continue Reading »
Mugged by Ultrasound
by Joe CarterDavid Daleiden and Jon A. Shields on why so many abortion workers have turned pro-life : In the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, second-trimester abortions were usually performed by saline injection. The doctor simply replaced the amniotic fluid in the patient’s uterus with a saline solution and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Most Feared Punctuation on Earth
by Joe CarterMatthew Inman has an amusing graphical primer on how to use a semicolon . . . . . Continue Reading »
The Approach of Lent
by Mark OlsonAt Evangel, the Rev Paul T. McCain noted that he was somewhat unfamiliar with the details and differences of and between the Eastern Orthodox and the Western (liturgical) calendars. So, with that in mind, I thought I’d attempt to fill in what’s happening and up and coming for the . . . . Continue Reading »
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