2014-10-29T21:33:31-04:00

For Reformation week. . .

2014-10-29T21:39:38-04:00

Easter Island, known for its mysterious stone figures,  is 2,300 miles from South America.  And yet, DNA research has found that the ancient Polynesians had children with Native Americans.  This happened between 1300 and 1500 A.D.  Today, the residents of Easter Island are 10% American

2014-10-28T18:57:41-04:00

Our pastor said that each one of us is a “filthy, rotten, putrid, maggot-infested cesspool of a sinner.”  But he meant it in a nice way.   See his Reformation Sunday sermon, drawn from John 8:31-36, on the bondage of sin and the freedom that Christ

2014-10-28T18:58:43-04:00

Abortion, far from being a modern medical procedure, was rampant in the past, including in the 19th century.  After the jump is an interview with Frederick Dyer, the author of a biography of Dr. Horatio Robinson Storer, the physician responsible for passing anti-abortion laws.  He

2014-10-28T18:47:23-04:00

The second nurse who contracted Ebola from the late Thomas Duncan in Dallas has been cured of the disease.  She too was a recipient of Dr. Kent Brantly’s blood.   That leaves only one case of Ebola in the United States, Doctors without Borders physician Craig

2014-10-27T21:07:06-04:00

The nurse who recovered from Ebola had received a blood transfusion from Dr. Kent Brantly, that first American missionary doctor who contracted the disease but survived.  So far, he has given about a gallon of his blood to others with the disease, and it seems

2014-10-27T21:08:10-04:00

As someone who grew up on the Jetsons, I have been disillusioned that the we did not get a lot of the things Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland promised us “by the year 2000.”  Yes, we have moving sidewalks, but they are humdrum people movers at the

2014-10-27T19:53:05-04:00

It’s Reformation Week at Issues, Etc., the syndicated radio program that you can hear online both live and on demand.  I’ll be interviewed today  5:00-6:00 p.m. ET on the Reformation on the Visual Arts.  Other topics this week will be the Reformation and Education, the

2014-10-27T12:44:01-04:00

Imagine a time in not-too-distant America when only religions that pass government tolerance criteria are allowed, relegating Christianity to rebellious teenagers, graffiti-spraying street gangs, and mysterious hideouts in Minnesota.  (Islam, however, is grandfathered in, having established the Islamic state of Europe and threatening to invade

2014-10-26T19:01:18-04:00

Those who worry about illegal voting are often dismissed with the claim that this hardly ever happens.  A non-partisan academic study, though, finds that it does.  Specifically, it found that 14% of non-citizens are registered to vote.  In the 2008 presidential election, 6.4% of the

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