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The same week as Christopher Hitchens’ death: Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright who was jailed by Communists and then went on to lead the bloodless “Velvet Revolution” and become Czech president, died at 75 on Sunday. [From Vaclav Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies - Yahoo! News] History will know whose contribution more to honor.

When I read in yesterday’s news that Nancy Northup had said the Prenatal NonDiscrimination Act was “a cynical and offensive attempt to evoke race and sex discrimination when actually it’s about taking women’s rights away,” I reacted immediately. It was an outrageous statement that demanded an answer, so I sat down right away and wrote …

Thanks to a user’s request and a timely software update, you have two new features available to you here at Thinking Christian: Print Friendly: print only what you want Improved email subscriptions. Sign up in the sidebar or beneath the combox to receive new posts and/or comments in your mailbox. It comes to you an …

Somebody emailed me recently to say, … You cowards keep on hiding behind your website cover and your mythical god… The sender used a pseudonym.

Just added to the sidebar: the Apologetics Search Engine: Christian scholarship on challenging issues, from the best sites around the Internet.

The “Thinking Atheist” page at Facebook has (ahem) honored me with a mention this week. I can’t claim that their comments there have been very thoughtful or enlightening, unfortunately. In hopes of doing better than that with them, I’ve invited their participants to bring their disagreements, disputes, and questions here; and I’m opening up this …

He was a great man in so many ways. I share other Christians’ concern over his spiritual ethical choices. That is between Steve Jobs and God now. Regardless of that, his memory serves to support what I was just saying: that there is something distinct and very special about the way God made all of …

I think I’m done testing background features now. According to tools.pingdom.com, the page now loads more than 50% quicker. Regular users will notice: If you were subscribed to get email updates on comments, you may need to subscribe again. The subscription plug-in I was using had gone obsolete, and I’ve replaced it with a much …

For the next several minutes I’m going to be testing some changes to this blog to try to improve its performance. While I’m doing that you will see some things looking different, and some features may temporarily go missing.

I’m in shock—this hits close to home. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A stage collapsed during a powerful storm at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday, sending steel scaffolding into the terrified crowd below and killing at least four people among fans awaiting a performance by the country band Sugarland. [From Stage collapse kills 4 ahead of …