The children’s crusade against big government that we’ve blogged about earlier is intensifying, as kids are rebelling against the healthier lunch room fare–ignoring fruits & vegetables, protesting whole wheat facsimiles of culturally significant foods like biscuits and tortillas, and filling the garbage bins with other
A Congressional primary candidate in Arizona has changed his party from Republican to Democrat and legally changed his name from Scott Fistler to Cesar Chavez to improve his chances in the heavily-Hispanic district. (more…)
The latest Time Magazine cover story announces that “another social movement is poised to challenge deeply held cultural beliefs”; namely, that of the transgendered (men who feel they are women, and women who feel like men, often undergoing surgery accordingly). A few years ago, seminary
Congress has refused to pass legislation restricting carbon emissions, so President Obama is doing it on his own. He has decreed what is being called a “war on coal”: The Obama administration took aim at the coal industry on Monday by mandating a 30 percent
More from my interview with Mathew Block, who asks about the connection between the imagination and the fine arts. (more…)
United Methodists are considering whether or not to have an amicable split, so as to accommodate both sides of the moral debates that the denomination is struggling with. As I know from personal and family experience, Methodists have always had a strong emphasis on morality.
When we think of the mind, we tend to think of the intellect, our ability to reason and understand. But the mind has many other facets: We experience our emotions in our minds. Another mental faculty is the will. There has been quite a lot
The Obama administration negotiated the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held captive in Afghanistan for nearly five years, in exchange for five senior Taliban leaders being held in Guantanamo. He was reportedly the last POW being held. The problem is, the
This weekend there were reports that Sudan would release the woman who was condemned to be hanged because she would not repudiate her Christianity. But now Sudan is denying those reports, saying that only a court ruling could release her. The woman, Mariam Yahya Ibrahim,
Dale M. Coulter discusses H. Richard Niebuhr’s The Kingdom of God in America and the issue he raised of “constructive Protestantism.” For Niebuhr, the essence of Protestantism is the unmediated relationship between the individual and God’s Word. The issue then becomes how Protestantism can create
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