There was a time when book-burning meant something. When your town had a library, and if someone burned a book in that library it meant that nobody you knew could read that book anymore. These days with cheap copies and inter-library lending and Amazon and free eBooks from Gutenberg.org, book burning is almost completely symbolic. When Pastor Terry ( Read more... )

Warr Acres, Oklahoma: The controversial crucifix has caused a deep divide among members of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, where it hangs above the main altar ( Read more... )

So there's this thing about how McCain stole his story about a Vietnamese prison guard drawing in the dirt from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. And it seems that the charge is at least partly if not fully BS. It's not necessary for McCain to have stolen the story from Solzhenitsyn because Solzhenitsyn isn't the person who invented the concept of drawing ( Read more... )

Rev. Ted Haggard is seeking rehabilitation in a program "where godly men who are clean themselves insert themselves in the life of the one who is struggling".

Funny, I thought that's what got him in trouble in the first place.

Every so often I'll read someone who says that Islam is an irreparably violent religion because its text requires its followers to commit terrible acts such as stoning adulterous women. This is true, but it's important to remember that the Old Testament is filled with similar instructions.

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