Society & Culture

A bombing near the Coptic cathedral in the Egyptian capital Cairo has killed at least 25 people, officials say. Dozens of others were injured in the blast at St Peter’s church during a Sunday church service.

Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, a hospital director said Sunday. Mortuaries in the city of Uyo are overflowing from Saturday’s tragedy, medical director Etete Peters of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital told The Associated Press.

“While the study was based on financial data only from groups accredited by the Winchester, Va., based organization, Busby said the findings are supported by studies from others.” BPress

Doug Wilson: I do have to say that I am enjoying the [presidential] transition way more than I thought I would be enjoying it. And here are some of the reasons why, along with some free observations here and there.

Nation Shocked, Horrified As Christians Hold Christian Position

Chip and Joanna Gaines Are What’s Wrong with America: A Satire

Doug Wilson: We live in an evil day, with a relativistic and deceitful ruling class. It is therefore the case that the only way to be a good boy is to be a bad boy. And the only way to have a good testimony is to have a poor one. Let’s get to work.

Beware of Economic Exploitation

Carl Trueman: One of the standard techniques in political propaganda, left and right, is to present ideas or events as discrete units, to be taken in isolation and detached from any larger historical or philosophical narrative … On a more sinister level, this technique is also a means of bringing about huge social change by making every hill seem so small that none can be worth d