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August 3, 2015
Racially friendly denominations may surprise you
A sociologist tested what denominations were most open to new people from different races. His team sent e-mails purportedly from whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians to different churches, asking the pastors about attending their church. Evangelicals overwhelmingly answered the e-mails and encouraged the new people, of whatever race, to attend. Mainline liberal denominations, on the [Read More...]
Planned Parenthood fights back against defunding
We taxpayers give Planned Parenthood a half-billion dollars a year, something a measure that goes before the Senate as early as this evening would end. So the abortion-industrial complex has issued talking points for its followers (see this and this in a single issue of the Washington Post) arguing that to defund Planned Parenthood would [Read More...]
The Gulf War 25 years later
August 1 was the 25th anniversary of the start of Operation Desert Storm, a.k.a. the Gulf War, fought to expel the Iraqis from Kuwait after Saddam Hussein invaded and took over that country. That war had clear justification, a limited goal, and was over in six weeks. Richard N. Haas, a national security advisor under [Read More...]
August 1, 2015
Special Planned Parenthood edition
Today is a special Saturday edition of the Cranach blog, featuring a wealth of material on the Planned Parenthood scandal. It’s almost impossible for us to keep up with the story of that organization’s brutality, grisly practices, and coverups. David Daleiden, The founder of the Center for Medical Progress, the organization that made those surreptitious [Read More...]
The 4th Video
They keep getting worse, and more damning: 8 Shocking Moments From 4th Planned Parenthood Video.
The video Planned Parenthood is trying to block
Blocked Planned Parenthood Video May Show ‘Prima Facie Evidence Of Born Alive Infants’.
Developments in The Planned Parenthood Scandal
10 Quick, Important Developments On The Planned Parenthood Scandal.
The weakness of the Planned Parenthood defense
The 4 Most Embarrassing Things Cecile Richards Said In Defense Of Planned Parenthood.
July 31, 2015
The theology of BBQ
There is a really good barbecue joint that opened near where I live, and I’ve been introducing students and friends to this transcendent cuisine and teaching them all about it. Terry Mattingly goes so far as to write about “the theology of barbecue,” interviewing an expert who tells of its role in churches and revivals. [Read More...]
Camille Paglia unchained
Camille Paglia is a leftist who lambastes leftists and appreciates conservatives. She is a feminist who critiques feminists and defends men. She is an atheist who excoriates atheists and respects religion. Her commentaries on contemporary culture are unfailingly outrageous, provocative, and stimulating. Also hilarious. She is the scourge of political correctness and an iconoclast of [Read More...]
