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January 01, 2010

Predictions for the next decade?

So what do you think will happen in the decade ahead? Make your predictions here....

December 2009

December 31, 2009

The decade in review

Time Magazine calls it "the decade from hell." The Washington Post calls it "the decade...

December 31, 2009

New Year’s Eve celebrations

I don't think it's because I'm getting old that the thought of celebrating New Year's...

December 31, 2009

New Year’s Resolutions

Another holiday custom we might as well play: New Year's Resolutions. A story in the...

December 31, 2009

The Liberty Cap

My son and I went into D.C. yesterday. I can tell you that the brand...

December 30, 2009

The top stories of 2009

Here are the top news stories of 2009 according to an Associated Press poll of...

December 30, 2009

Dave Barry’s year in review

One of my New Year's customs is to contemplate the year gone by, month by...

December 28, 2009

Holy Innocents Day

Today, December 28, is Holy Innocents Day, the commemoration of the death of those children...

December 24, 2009

Christmas Eve is Christmas

In the ancient world, the end of the day was when the sun went down....

December 24, 2009

Santa accused of promoting obesity

Santa is a bad role model for children and needs to lose weight, according to...

December 23, 2009

Garrison Keillor claims Christmas for Christians

Lake Woebegone sage Garrison Keillor has stirred things up with a column entitled Nonbelievers, please...

December 22, 2009

What St. Nicholas (a.k.a. “Santa Claus”) actually looked like

Forensic experts have done their number on the skull of St. Nicholas of Myra and...

December 21, 2009

Snow and Redemption

The snow reminds me of an image in Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's...

December 18, 2009

Why Christmas is on December 25

Biblical Archaeology Review has a good scholarly discussion of why Christmas is celebrated on December...

December 02, 2009

How to respond to the Atheists’ holiday ads

Atheists are expanding their advertising campaign, but Christians are developing a positive response: The American...

November 2009

November 30, 2009

Have an unmerry Advent!

Advent is to Christmas as Lent is to Easter. That is, Advent and Lent are...

November 26, 2009

George Washington’s Thanksgiving Day proclamation

From George Washington, 1789: Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the...

November 26, 2009

The table as altar

Columnist Sally Quinn , writing about entertaining guests, tossed off a provocative comparison: When you...

November 26, 2009

Be thankful we still have God’s Word

In our Bible class, we are studying Genesis by way of Luther's commentary, the equivalent,...

November 11, 2009

Veterans Day salutes

Today is Veterans Day. Why today? Because the fighting in World War I ended, according...

November 09, 2009

20th anniversary of the collapse of Communism

Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall--the icon of the "Iron Curtain" that separated nations...

October 2009

October 30, 2009

Special Halloween/Reformation Day/All Saints Edition

This weekend is lots of holidays, sacred and profane, overlapping and one after another. So...

October 30, 2009

Contemporary Reformation

If the Church were to go through another Reformation today, what do you think needs...

October 30, 2009

Anti-Halloween tracts that out Halloween Halloween

Jack Chick is that anti-Catholic comic book artist who also puts out evangelistic tracts, including...

October 30, 2009

The meaning of monsters

Stephen Asma is a philosophy professor writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Monsters...

October 30, 2009

For all the saints in warfare, for all the saints in rest

We recently discussed the need for unity in the Church. But isn't there already the...

October 16, 2009

Halloween Book Burning

More anti-conservative, Bible-hating conservatism: Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina, is sponsoring a...

October 12, 2009

Happy Columbus Day

Today is Columbus Day. Not only that, this year Columbus Day falls on the actual...

September 2009

September 22, 2009

Preview the Bob Dylan Christmas album

We had talked about Bob Dylan's upcoming Christmas album. Here is the album cover with...

September 11, 2009

Another 9/11

We should always honor the victims and the heroes who gave their lives on this...