President Obama is sending 275 back to Iraq to protect the embassy and American personnel from ISIS insurgents. (more…)
President Obama is sending 275 back to Iraq to protect the embassy and American personnel from ISIS insurgents. (more…)
Yesterday was Trinity Sunday. At our church, we said the Athanasian Creed and a little girl was baptized in that august Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, her name joined to His. What a glorious God we have! Those of you who celebrated
David Brat, the Virginia economics professor who overthrew House Majority leader Eric Cantor in the Republican congressional primary, calls himself a “Calvinist Catholic libertarian.” Let’s hope Pope Francis doesn’t burn him at the stake! But what could that possibly mean? Does that make him, in
A new Pew study of the political polarization in this country has found some distinct cultural differences between liberals and conservatives. Read about it after the jump, where I also offer some observations and propose something for us to discuss. (more…)
The U.S. trained and equipped Iraqi army is much bigger and better armed than the ISIS insurgents, but in combat they have been running away in droves. So the chief Shi’ite cleric has called for volunteers and a reconstituting of the militias to fight back
Denmark passed a law requiring all churches to perform same-sex weddings. Not just the state Lutheran church, all churches. The news story on the subject has another interesting detail: The government “church minister” who supervises the state church and who pushed the law against Christian
The media reported that a supercomputer passed the Turing Test, a measure of artificial intelligence in which a computer can pass as a human being. But it turns out that this is just one of the many examples tracked on this blog (as some of
The left stereotypes conservatives as the tools of big business, but, as I keep saying on this blog, there are many different kinds of conservatives, and a good many of them–especially the populists associated with the Tea Party– oppose powerful corporations for some of the
It looks like we are approaching the helicopter-on-the-roof phase in Iraq, as Americans are being evacuated as the rebel army moves closer and closer to Baghdad. (To add insult to injury, the rebels are apparently making use of American equipment that was left behind.) But
Judas, according to John 12:6, was a thief, and Jesus knew everything he was up to (John 6:70). So why did Jesus put him in charge of the money? Jon Bloom offers an interesting meditation on this topic. (more…)
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