This is pretty interesting:

Photos of East Germany in 1990, just before the fall of the wall, and recently. A remarkable transformation.

"Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a ( Read more... )

I picked up a book that I started several months ago, but dropped reading for no good reason, and I'm glad I did.  Christianity's Dangerous Idea, by Alister McGrath deals with the implications of the protestant reformation, in particular the idea for people to interpret the Bible for themselves, starting in the sixteenth century up to the present ( Read more... )

I've been reading last winter's issue of Christian History mag where they discuss the Puritans. I suspect most modern day Puritans would have prefered they focus on some other Puritan leader than Richard Baxter, who seems to have been the least Calvinistic of the English Puritans ( Read more... )

No Commentary from me, but I thought this was interesting to read.

Across the globe, people are choosing to have fewer children or none at all. Governments are desperate to halt the trend, but their influence seems to stop at the bedroom door. Are some societies destined to become extinct? Hardly. It’s more likely that conservatives will inherit ( Read more... )

Four chapters into the Alister McGrath book I talked about earlier, and my thoughts are ( Read more... )