The government-funded effort to find alien life–known as SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Life)–is running out of money. So its scientists testified before Congress, claiming that extraterrestrial life is a virtual certainty and that we should find it within 20 years. Do you see anything wrong
Is there anything that can be said about the 22-year-old who killed six people–stabbing three, then shooting three more before killing himself–in Santa Barbara? Elliott Rodger, the affluent son of the assistant director of the Hunger Games, gave his reasons in a 171-page manifesto and
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, an Orthodox priest, gives a lucid explanation of the difference between “natural law” and “nominalism” when it comes to moral philosophy. He does so in a way that makes it nearly impossible to believe that Luther was a nominalist, as he
Conservative think-tanker Peter Wehner cites recent speeches by Wayne La Pierre, Ben Carson, and Michelle Bachmann that describe America as a fundamentally corrupt neo-Nazi police state. That is exactly what the New Left of the 1970’s said. Read Mr. Wehner’s warnings against this mindset and
Thanks to Hillsdale Professor Korey Maas for alerting me to Emily Dunbar, a Lutheran musician who sings about vocation and a sense of place. After the jump, what Dr. Maas says about her, along with a links to her music. (more…)
Thanks to Dan Kempin for alerting me to this song “Do Everything” by Contemporary Christian Music artist Stephen Curtis Chapman. It is about vocation, but it is about the Reformed doctrine of vocation, rather than the Lutheran doctrine of vocation. They overlap, but the Reformed
The word “conservative” means different things in the United States and Europe. American conservatives tend to value personal liberty, free market economics, and small government. Europeans call that being “liberal.” European conservatives tend to hearken back to the good old days of the monarchies, being
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has put much of its collection online in digitized high-resolution images, including scores of works by the patron of this blog Lucas Cranach. Go to this link: Search | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click the
We blogged about the Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the LCMS. President Harrison has now posted an excerpt from the Statement of Biblical and Confessional Principles, passed by convention in 1973, in response to the church schism over the inerrancy of Scripture. But
You know how a dog will get down on his paws with his rear in the air, especially when meeting another dog? That’s called a “play bow” and means that he wants to play. He will also do it if he bites the dog and
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