More evidence of Luther’s point about Roman Catholics and Protestant “enthusiasts” being basically the same in thinking God speaks to them directly and experientially, apart from His Word: “God told me to do it,” the 86-year-old former pontiff told a friend, six months after his
The Supreme Court is hearing a case that will decide whether or not it is constitutional for a city council to begin with an explicitly Christian prayer. Surprisingly to both sides, the Obama administration has filed a brief defending the city council being sued and
New Jersey has passed a law forbidding counseling or therapy that tries to change a minor’s sexual orientation. But it specifically allows for counseling or therapy that tries to change a minor’s gender. Matthew Schmitz sees a contradiction here. (more…)
Three teenagers in Duncan, Oklahoma, shot and killed a college student from Australia just jogging by. Why? Because they were bored. This happened not in some big city but in a small Oklahoma town of less than 24,000. Boring, perhaps (speaking as a product of
The only nations in the world that permit abortion after the fetus is viable are China, North Korea, Canada, and the United States. (more…)
Russell Moore–identified as one of those mythical “Lutheran Baptists“–is the new spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention on social issues. He is taking a different approach from the conventional political activist on the “Christian right.” He says that Christians have lost the so-called “culture wars”
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is championing Edward Snowden and his NSA revelations, says that Republican libertarianism–and specifically Rand Paul along with his father Ron–are the “only hope” for American politics. He praised their principled stands against drone assassinations and (wait for it) abortion! I’m
In Egypt, the military rulers and the democratically-elected Islamists they overthrew are engaged in a bloodbath. At least 600 people have been killed so far. The Islamists are taking the opportunity to target Christians along with their property and their churches. Houses and businesses owned
In my book Postmodern Times, I write about how the will has replaced reason in contemporary thought. In my book Modern Fascism, I discuss the great filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s celebration of Hitler, The Triumph of the Will, and argue that the phrase encapsulates the philosophy
We have discussed the president’s bad habit of ignoring or even altering laws that he finds inconvenient. Charles Krauthammer catalogs just how many times and to what extent he and his administration have done this. (more…)
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