I wasn’t kidding about it being Johnny Cash month! First, via Thunderstruck, Even in death, Man in Black looms large at USA Today. Kim wonders how the new movie will treat Cash’s faith.

Certainly an important issue. It’s reached the highest segments of society!

In his introduction to the collection By Faith Alone: Essays on Justification in Honor of Gerhard Forde, Luther Seminary professor Marc Kolden offers his account of the Lutheran reformers’ notion of “justification by faith”: First, for Martin Luther as well as the other reformers the whole gospel could be summed up in the phrase, “the…

It seems to be mostly dissident conservatives, says Nat Hentoff (link via Conservative Green): My respect continues to increase for the conservative defenders of our most fundamental liberties. A founder of the conservative movement, Paul Weyrich — chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation — exemplifies this force when he writes: “Because of the…

It’s interesting that Thanksgiving is the only secular holiday in the American calendar that has explicitly religious overtones (we might say that holidays like 4th of July and Memorial Day have implicit religious overtones, but that’s another matter). That is, Thanksgiving implies Someone to whom we give thanks, but it’s not an explicitly Christian holiday…

Israeli archaeologists say they have discovered what may be the oldest Christian church in the Holy Land on the grounds of a prison near the biblical site of Armageddon.The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the ruins were believed to date back to the third or fourth century and include references to Jesus and images of fish,…

As an early birthday present my lovely wife gave me Dressed in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash, which features cover versions of mostly early songs by a variety of what you might call neo-traditionalist country artists like Robbie Fulks and Hank Williams III. It’s really excellent. And, as it happens, the Johnny Cash biopic…

Even though I think I have every single track scattered among half a dozen or so CDs and cassettes (yes, Virginia, we used to have these things called cassette tapes), I’m pretty tempted by this. Everything is remastered, and I have to admit that the production on State of Euphoria in particular is pretty crummy.…

New contributor at Right Reason, Christopher Tollefsen, offers an intriguing argument that (a certain kind of) opposition to abortion has nothing to do with conservatism per se and, in fact, might be best seen as a legacy of modernity and liberalism Tollefsen suggests that “conservative” arguments against abortion, such as those that rely on tradition…

Camassia is talking about Original Sin and children, and points to some of the difficulties many people have with the idea that children are capable of evil. Whatever we may think about his doctrine of Original Sin, I think Augustine was closer to the truth than many moderns in seeing that children are capable of…