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January 2017

January 20, 2017

Live-blogging the Inauguration

Being unable to resist significant moments in history, I'll be watching the Inauguration ceremonies today...

January 03, 2017

December 2016

December 31, 2016

Happy New Year!

Thank you to all of my readers for being part of this blog last year....

December 30, 2016

Make your predictions for 2017

Now it is time to look forward, to speculate about what this new year will...

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 23, 2016

Blog news

Merry Christmas, everybody! I thought I'd pass on some news about the Cranach blog and...

December 05, 2016

Back in the U.S.A.!

We are back in the good old U.S. of A. after spending a month visiting...

November 2016

November 08, 2016

Liveblogging the election

My custom has long been to stay up until the wee hours watching the election...

November 03, 2016

Blogging from Down Under

We're on our way to Australia to visit our grandchildren, daughter, and son-in-law (a new...

June 2016

June 16, 2016

We now have User Blocking on Disqus

Since we left the World Table comment system and went back to Disqus, the discussions...

April 2016

April 15, 2016

Correction to the Battle of Princeton post

In regards to my recent post, Princeton University tells me that the Institute for Advanced Study,...

April 13, 2016

We’re going back to the old commenting system!

This blog is going to stop using the World Table commenting system and is going...

March 2016

March 10, 2016

Dispatch from Denmark

I am now in Copenhagen, where I have an internet connection. The conference I spoke...

March 04, 2016

Back to Denmark

Last Fall, as some of you will remember, I spent a couple of weeks on...

February 2016

February 11, 2016

World Table update

A new version of our commenting system, which we are testing for Patheos, has been...

January 2016

January 01, 2016

Make your predictions for 2016

Yesterday we looked at our predictions for 2015. Today we give our predictions for 2016. ...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Checking your predictions for 2015

Merry New Year's Eve! It has long been the custom at this blog to make...

December 29, 2015

The comments are working now

Among the things that didn't work yesterday and this morning is the comment system. But...

December 28, 2015

This last week of the year

The last week of the year is a time to look back upon the previous...

December 25, 2015

Have a merry Christmas and a happy Christmas

Two years ago, I did a post on the difference between "merry Christmas" and "happy...

December 15, 2015

Live commentary on the Republican debate

Let me make this prediction before the debate begins: The candidates will be asked some...

December 08, 2015

More on the top 25 most influential spiritual classics

The editor of Christian History, Jennifer Woodruff Tait, wrote me about our post on that...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

New comment system updates

Jack Donaldson reports on changes to the World Table comment system, thanks to your input. ...

November 20, 2015

Commenting standards have been set

OK, friends, to give the new World Table comment system a true tryout, we've set...

November 19, 2015

The 1st use of the Law and the new commenting system

We theology nerds talk quite a bit about the Second Use of the Law (the...

November 17, 2015

Freedom and the new comment system

Thanks, everybody, for trying out the new World Table comment system. I can relate to...

November 13, 2015

We’re getting a new comment system!

In the rainbow of diversity we have here at the Cranach blog, opinions vary on...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Liveblogging the debate, the World Series, and the Thunder game

OK, friends, here we go. As I said, I would be multi-tasking, so I'll depend...

October 12, 2015

I’m back!

We're back from our two-week sojourn in Denmark and Norway. We had a very good...

October 09, 2015

A non-American news source

"Oh, to see ourselves as other see us," said Robert Burns in a Scottish accent. ...