A federal judge in Utah has ruled that the state’s law banning polygamy is unconstitutional. If the ruling is upheld on appeal–and how could it not be?–that would have a big impact not only on radical Mormons but on American Muslims. And, of course, anyone
Russia has reportedly invaded the Ukraine, sending two armored columns that captured a town near the border. (more…)
Last year almost to the day we blogged about Rev. Henry Gerecke, the LCMS military chaplain who was pressed into service as the Protestant chaplain at Nuremberg, charged with ministering to the Nazi war criminals who were on trial there, many of whom were executed.
We blogged about whether police are too militarized. But, as Mark Hemingway shows, in what his wife Mollie calls the new administrative state, our federal bureaucracies–including those that have nothing to do with law enforcement–are also militarized. He shows that the Department of Health &
Fighting ALS (“Lou Gehrig’s Disease”) is a worthy cause, worth dumping an ice bucket over your head. The main beneficiary of the “Ice Bucket Challenge” is the ALS Association. The problem with that group, though, is that they use a stem cell line from an
The Orthodox Rod Dreher, who quoted Bonhoeffer in an essay on Christians separating themselves from the world, quotes another Lutheran, Søren Kierkegaard. In his Attack upon “Christendom”, his devastating critique of the Danish state church and “cultural Christianity,” Kierkegaard argues that inherent to the faith
Mollie Hemingway at the Federalist just rips to shreds the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. In the course of doing so, she points to an overarching problem: The establishment of the administrative state, in which Constitutional government is replaced by administrative agencies, which have the power to
The London Guardian reports on a study of reading on a Kindle as compared to reading a traditional book. Readers of the paper version performed significantly better when it came to reconstructing the chronological order of incidents in the plot. The story cites another study
We often hear references to Bonhoeffer’s term “cheap grace.” In an essay defending Christians who are trying to separate themselves from the world–which I recommend that you read–Rod Dreher usefully quotes the entire passage and its context from The Cost of Discipleship dealing with “cheap
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee says that ISIS/Islamic State is developing a plan to “blow up” a major American city. “We’re in the most dangerous position we’ve ever been in as a nation,” he said. In the meantime, ISIS has sent a
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