2013-11-27T13:02:17-05:00

Right now, people who lack health insurance and need a government subsidy to pay for it are being asked to sign up for the program on their computers.  Think of that.   It can be assumed that even those who need financial assistance have computers.

2013-11-27T13:40:35-05:00

We want to do things that we can’t do, for one reason or another, and we complain about every restriction.  And yet, we really do have an incredible measure of liberty in this country.  Let us count some of the ways. . . . (more…)

2013-11-26T16:23:35-05:00

We just celebrated the last Sunday of the Church Year–some call it the Sunday of the Fulfillment or Christ the King Sunday.  And the Gospel reading for this triumphant, climactic day is about. . . Christ on the Cross (Luke 23:27-43).  Our pastor preached on

2013-11-26T16:25:24-05:00

Roman Catholics and the Lutheran World Federation made a splash a few years ago when they came to some agreements about Justification by Faith.  But the much-hyped talk of the two parties getting together has floundered, since many of the liberal Lutherans of the LWF

2013-11-26T16:26:48-05:00

The Supreme Court has announced that it will settle the question of whether owners of private businesses with religious objections can opt out of the Obamacare mandate that employer-provided insurance policies must cover contraceptives and morning-after-pills.  The court will hear the cases of Hobby Lobby

2013-11-25T21:40:41-05:00

Hear them all (from Dan Savage, Germaine Greer, Peter Hitchens, and Hanna Rosin). HT:  Aaron Lewis & Wrigley Peterborough

2013-11-25T21:43:17-05:00

Teo Bishop, a prominent neo-Pagan–a celebrity among Druids and Witches–has announced his conversion to Christianity.  He now says, “I’m overwhelmed with thoughts of Jesus. . . Jesus and God and Christianity and the Lord’s Prayer and compassion and forgiveness and hope. … I don’t know

2013-11-25T21:45:08-05:00

The Obama administration has engineered, with other nations, an agreement with Iran that would ease economic sanctions against that country in return for certain restrictions on its nuclear weapons program–for six months.  Israel and Sunni Muslim nations disapprove.  So does Charles Krauthammer, whose critique can

2013-11-24T16:20:32-05:00

Here is a great video about my daughter Mary Moerbe’s book on vocation for kids! (A link for ordering it after the jump.) (more…)

2013-11-24T15:43:13-05:00

Pastors and other church workers have long been able to take part of their compensation as an untaxed housing allowance, resulting in substantial tax savings.  But a federal court has ruled in a suit brought by the Freedom from Religion Foundation that the tax break

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