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Greetings from the mountains of North Carolina, where the big news is that the library is closed. Thus, this “Pod people” update comes to you care of the free wifi in the wonderful Hilltop Restaurant in beautiful downtown Burnsville. Let’s hear it for diners with wifi AND multiple items the Orthodox can eat in Nativity Lent!
Leave it to the experts to tell us how to deal with the in-laws, the five pounds we’re bound to gain and the tragedy of whatever football teams lose today.
As Mitt Romney inches closer to the GOP nomination, we are nearing the point at which the mainstream press — especially Comedy Central — begins to realize that it’s time to cover a different Mormon story.
I confess: That’s generally my reaction when I read news stories (and the mainstream media seem to publish them with increasing frequency) about atheists trying to win nonbelievers to their cause.
I confess that I am fascinated with several journalistic mysteries related to the case of the would-be Manhattan bomber, Jose Pimentel, a.k.a. Muhammad Yusuf, a.k.a. Osama Hussein.
I’m going to break some news to you. It’s very difficult and you’ve probably never heard about it. Certainly the Washington Post hasn’t.
If I have learned anything in my two decades as a professor in Christian higher education, it is this. There is no one approach to “Christian” higher education.
