Thomas Craughwell
Wade Seago of Samson, Alabama, knew something was amiss when his daughter started screaming and his schnauzer started barking. From a window he could see that his dog, Cruiser, had cornered a wild hog — a very, very big wild…
Olivia de Havilland is going to court. The day before her 101st birthday, the grande dame of Hollywood’s Golden Age filed suit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against FX Networks and Ryan Murphy Productions. What’s the beef? In…
Recently, a letter came to Dr. Katricia Pierson, president of Eastern Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. Her correspondent was a representative from Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU). For a college president, a letter with that return…
Let’s be honest: the homeliest president was Abraham Lincoln. That lopsided face. Those ginormous ears. The perpetual bad hair. And it’s not just me. Men and women who saw Abraham Lincoln in the flesh did not pull their punches about…
“Send bombers, and turn North Korea into a parking lot.” That was my initial knee-jerk reaction when I heard that Otto Warmbier was dead. It was not the most Christian thought ever to flash through my heart and mind, and…
The two women invited to the Dirksen Senate Office Building last week seemed like the kind of expert witnesses any Democrat, especially a female Democrat, would love. Both have become respected academics, authors, and activists for women’s rights. Both are…
If today F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway had their famous exchange about the rich, it probably would go like this: Fitzgerald: The rich are different. Hemingway: Yes. They get better swag. Two rarely linked sources, the Hollywood Reporter and…
In what ranks as one of the most generous collaborations between two colleges, the Moody Center, a training institute for evangelical Protestants, has transferred ownership of almost all of its Northfield Seminary campus in Massachusetts to California-based Thomas Aquinas College,…
That hang-over from the mid-1960s, the theology of bad taste, has opened shop in Detroit. It began with a letter from Archbishop Allen Henry Vigeron to the people of the Detroit Archdiocese entitled “Unleash the Gospel.” Wasn’t there anyone in…
Democrats just aren’t fun anymore. Chuck Schumer? He’d trample his grandmother if she stood between him and a cable news camera crew. Nancy Pelosi? She tut-tuts at the nation like a frontier schoolmarm. Elizabeth Warren? She possesses all the charm…
