Listening to the unheard
The news cycle is loud, but we need to hear those who can’t shout
KIM'S KEEPERS
News from the Korean peninsula is almost uniformly bad-and perhaps connected.
Southern discomfort
South Carolina incumbent's decision not to seek reelection may be just the beginning of the Democrats' woes in the South
'Formally heretical'
Election of the first openly gay bishop crosses "a major line" and leads the Episcopal Church into a "profound pastoral crisis" that likely will lead to a worldwide split
From therapy to history
V. Gene Robinson was raised in a Disciples of Christ family and church in Kentucky but switched to the Episcopal Church (ECUSA) while in...
Voices
Andrée Seu Peterson
Playing with words
BECOMING A WRITER MADE ME REALIZE THAT writers are frauds in the same way that becoming a mother made me realize that mothers are frauds. Fraud is a strong word, I suppose. In the case of motherho...
Marvin Olasky
Walking in places
VISHAL MANGALWADI IS ONE OF THE BRAVE MEN of our age. As India's Hindu extremists have ratcheted up the pressure on Christians who would give the Dalits (untouchables) an alternative to subservien...
Joel Belz
Unlikely as uphill erosion
We took a brief look in this column last week at the regular tendency of institutions and organizations of all kinds to drift from the right to the left, from orthodoxy to heterodoxy, from faithfu...
Notebook
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
It's an attention grabber. Ottawa County (Mich.) official Mark Knudsen on a county brochure for potential residents that includes a scratch-and-sniff section emitting the smell of manure. M...
The Buzz
Defying the 'almighty court'
The Alabama Constitution invokes "the favor and guidance of Almighty God," but the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals insisted that a granite Ten Commandments monument in the state's Judicial Buil...
The Buzz
It still doesn't pay
When the media last month first reported allegations that Kobe Bryant had sexually assaulted a 19-year-old Eagle, Colo., woman, some in the advertising industry said the charges would perversely h...
The Buzz
TOP NEWS
1 continuing the hunt U.S. search teams found dozens of advanced fight...
The Buzz
BLOGWATCH
One of the best examples of specified blogging is Maggie Gallagher's new blog (www.marriagedebate.com/blog/blog.htm) devoted entirely to the issue of gay marriage. Ms. Gallagher, who comes down on...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Don't drink the water Ron Kazel of Cape Coral, Fla., says he is "livid," and it's easy to understand why. He learned late last month that utility workers in June had hooked up his home, alo...