January 2009 Entries
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggests adding birth control funding to the financial stimulus package.
Steve Martin did a comedy routine early in his career that made me laugh so hard I could cry. Basically, here's how it went:
America's entertainment industry receives a lot of criticism. Because of the gratuitous sex and violence depicted in many films, much of that criticism is deserved. But Joseph Dooley, Genealogist General of the Sons of the American Revolution, says many films also contain a lot of good which we, as Americans, may take for granted.
With all the controversy surrounding Rick Warren giving the opening prayer at President Barack Obama's inauguration, it was the benediction delivered by long-time civil rights leader, the Reverend Joseph Lowery, that ought to generate the most outrage. Here's how Lowery concluded his prayer:
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale has selected Tullian Tchividjian to succeed the late D. James Kennedy as its pastor. Kennedy, who founded the church in the 1960's, died a year and half ago at the age of 76. Tchividjian pastors a church in that area and is no stranger to Coral Ridge. Here's the story from today's edition of the Sun-Sentinel.
The Reverend Richard John Neuhaus, one of Christianity's leading intellectuals, died Thursday at at the age of 72.