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The Gospel reading for yesterday, commemorating the Circumcision and Name of Jesus, was Luke 2:21,...
January 02, 2017
499 years after the Reformation, 1691 years after the Council of Nicaea, theological disputes and...
January 02, 2017
Dave Barry’s 2016 Year in Review
One of my New Year's Eve rituals is to read Dave Barry's annual Year in...
December 2016
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Thank you to all of my readers for being part of this blog last year....
December 31, 2016
"And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus,...
December 31, 2016
The new year will mark some important anniversaries. The biggest will be the 500th anniversary...
December 30, 2016
Make your predictions for 2017
Now it is time to look forward, to speculate about what this new year will...
December 30, 2016
Top 10 discoveries in Biblical archaeology for 2016
2016 was a good year for Biblical archaeology, with numerous excavations and artifacts confirming Biblical history....
December 30, 2016
Debbie Reynolds dies, one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, died last week. One...
December 30, 2016
Obama picks a fight with Russians
President Obama has hit Russia with sanctions and the expulsion of diplomatic personnel in retaliation...
December 29, 2016
Checking our predictions for 2016
It's time to check the predictions we made around this time last year, something you...
December 29, 2016
The worst political predictions of 2016
The Cranach Institute is not the only news source that holds itself accountable by checking...
December 29, 2016
In Sweden, Christmas means Donald Duck
Odd Christmas customs department: In Sweden, the country virtually shuts down on Christmas Eve at...
December 28, 2016
Birth as the “moral fault line of our time”
Christmas is about birth, Kevin Williamson reminds us, which is what reminds us most of...
December 28, 2016
The Religion News Association announced its top 10 religion stories of 2016. Number one: Donald...
December 27, 2016
What you do to your neighbor you do to Christ
It still being Christmas--there are twelve days of it, remember--we can still contemplate the inexhaustible topic...
December 27, 2016
The Associated Press polled editors and news directors to come up with the top stories...
December 27, 2016
The superiority of the left-handed
People who are left-handed constitute 10-15% of the population. The other 85-90% have often given...
December 26, 2016
“The darkness didn’t comprehend it”
I do not agree with N. T. Wright on "the new perspective on Paul," but he...
December 26, 2016
Marshall McLuhan, conservative Catholic
Marshall McLuhan, who basically invented the study of media, became an icon of the 1960's...
December 26, 2016
Today, the day after Christmas, is celebrated as "Boxing Day" in the United Kingdom and...
December 24, 2016
“The light shines in the darkness”
How fitting that we commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ around the time of the...
December 24, 2016
A medieval Christmas for the children
In a review of what sounds like an excellent book on Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Nathaniel...
December 24, 2016
What to do with your Amazon boxes
If you or people who gave you presents did much of your Christmas shopping online,...
December 23, 2016
Tolkien’s newly-discovered Christmas poem
A Christmas poem written by J. R. R. Tolkien was recently discovered. Entitled "Noel," Tolkien...
December 23, 2016
Statistics on churchgoing at Christmas
Over half of Americans will go to church on Christmas day. Of those who don't,...
December 23, 2016
Chicago Tribune columnist Rex Huppke writes about how when he was a kid Christmas was...
December 23, 2016
Merry Christmas, everybody! I thought I'd pass on some news about the Cranach blog and...
December 22, 2016
The tragedies behind “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
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December 22, 2016
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