Over the years this blog has devoted a bit of attention to Christopher Hitchens and the challenge he presented to Christianity.  He certainly knew the Gospel story.  One hopes that at that last his heart softened to Christ as he faced his death. British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States [...]

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I received this email from the DSC this afternoon: 15 December 2011On Wednesday, December 14, Province IV bishops diocesan were invited to attend a meeting in Charleston, South Carolina with Bishop Mark Lawrence to discuss the recent issuing of quitclaim deeds by Bishop Lawrence and the Standing Committee of the Diocese of South Carolina to [...]

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I came across this quote by Horatius Bonar this week while doing some sermon research.  Bonar warns against a kind of “soft and effeminate Christianity.”  The crux of the issue for him are Christians who are too afraid to fight for what is right and to protest against what is wrong and what that does to [...]

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How Should we Pick Songs to Sing in Church? How do we decide which songs to sing in church?  What criteria should we use?  Should we pick songs simply because they feel good or move us emotionally?  Should we pick them because they give us some kind of “worship experience”? Tebow, Calvin, and the Hand [...]

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Again, on the cultural phenomenon of Tim Tebow from Patton Dodd: In communities across America, whether religious or secular, fields of play are often seen as workshops of character. Parents and coaches get kids involved with sports because they care about encouraging them to be better people. At the national level, however, big-time sports is [...]

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An excellent article from Elizabeth Scalia: It says a great deal about the depths to which America’s values have fallen that Tim Tebow–who, once upon a time, would have been the wholesome, women-and-mom-respecting, clean-playing, fresh-faced and faithful Hollywood ideal of a football hero—is the target of such deep derision from so many sources, and in [...]

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From Travel + Leisure (by way of Time): Where do America’s Most Attractive People Live? Los Angeles? New York? Not a chance. Apparently, all the hotties hang out in Charleston, S.C. According to a survey conducted by Travel + Leisure magazine, the southern city is home to the most attractive people in America. Read the rest.

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After the year we’ve had it’s nice to see Urban Meyer already restoring the luster to OSU. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: Several top players, including wide receiver Ricquan Southward, have changed their verbal commitments to join the Buckeyes. Se’Von Pittman changed his verbal commitment from Michigan State and he will now join the Buckeyes, writes Todd Porter of CantonRep.com. [...]

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Joseph Bottum has written an interesting article in the Weekly Standard in which he writes about the rumored retirement next year of Rowan Williams as the Archbishop of Canterbury.  The article offers a good analysis of the current Anglican situation and has an interesting conclusion regarding the failure of the Archbishops tenure. Here”s a snip: [...]

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