Since Mary Rose pointed out some great photos of the current blizzard, I thought I’d inform the readers who aren’t on the East Coast that New York has two feet of snow. (Via: The Worley Gig ) . . . . Continue Reading »
The photographer of this shot noted: “A saintly statue adorned with fur hat and stole.” See more photos of New York’s snowy adornments here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Kelly Kulick, a 33-year-old professional bowler, had already won the Professional Bowler’s Association Women’s World Championship and was looking for a new challenge. Since a new PBA rule allowed her to qualify for the men’s tournaments she signed up for the Tournament of . . . . Continue Reading »
A new survey of 2,508 Americans conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute asked 39 questions intended to evaluate the impact of a college education on people’s beliefs. The results are as discouraging as they are predictable: Conventional wisdom holds that there is a strong connection . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: Every Friday on First Thoughts we host a discussion about some aspect of pop culture. Today’s theme is music from the 1980s. Have a suggestion for a topic? Send them to me at jcarter@firstthings.com ] I hail from Generation X while my sixteen-year-old daughter is a member of Generation . . . . Continue Reading »
Frantz Schmidt was a family man, a respected city official, and a pious Christian. He was also a consumate professional who worked in an occupation that required that he flog, maim, hang, behead, drown, and bury alive various criminals: June 5, 1573. “Leonardt Russ of Ceyern, a thief. Executed . . . . Continue Reading »
Courtesy of our friends at Netflix, who are frequently mentioned on this site and consequently should be advertising here, the wife and I watched Bruce Willis’s movie, Surrogates. It’s a good movie with a decent though predictable plot, a few veteran actors provide a little panache, a . . . . Continue Reading »
Satan. A word which the LXX and translators of the Masoretic Old Testament chose different methods. A translator has two different choices when dealing with a proper name or title. Transliteration or translation ... that is make the word sound the same, or literally translate the meaning of the . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend Doug Wilson has a great post today about American Exceptionalism. Here’s a piece of it:If anyone could believe in exceptionalism, and have actual verses to point to, it would have been the Hebrews. And yet note that God warns them of this pattern, which is as old as dirt. He included . . . . Continue Reading »
A new report delivered to the Obama administration claims that American foreign policy is hindered by its secularism and needs to factor religious issues into its dealings with other countries: American foreign policy is handicapped by a narrow, ill-informed and “uncompromising Western . . . . Continue Reading »
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