Christian Science practitioners are trying to get spiritual healing to be paid for in the Health Care Reform bill: The calls come in at all hours: patients reporting broken bones, violent coughs, deep depression. Prue Lewis listens as they explain their symptoms. Then Lewis —
Edward Skidelsky in Prospect Magazine writes about Words that think for us . He notes a difference in our terms for moral censure: No words are more typical of our moral culture than “inappropriate” and “unacceptable.” They seem bland, gentle even, yet they carry the
. . .has to be Grace Upon Grace: Spirituality for Today by John W. Kleinig. Dr. Kleinig is an Australian theologian, Bible scholar, and Lutheran seminary professor who is one of the most illuminating teachers I have come across. Many Christians today have gotten interested
The Health Care Reform Bill passed a key procedural vote in the Senate, shutting down the possibility of a filibuster, when Democratic leaders promised a moderate Democratic holdout $300 million for her state in return for her vote. Here is how the Washington Post describes
You know those folks in blue blazers working the information desks at airports? They are volunteers for Travelers Aid, America’s oldest non-religious volunteer organization. Though they might just give directions to a restroom or to baggage claim, they also often help people in serious need.
Which is more problematic, ordaining a homosexual man or ordaining a woman? To ordain someone who sins publicly and without repentance would be a scandalous failure of discipline and Biblical fidelity on the part of the church body. And yet, there have been homosexual pastors
Have any of you seen 2012, the movie based on the notion that ancient Indian texts predicted the world will end in three years and that those ancient Indians were somehow right? I’ve actually had Christians ask me about that, if there might be anything
So if the 9/11 planners get acquitted in their trial in New York City, they will not be released? They will THEN become enemy combatants? Holder suggests acquittal won't free terrorist : Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. let stand Wednesday a claim that confessed
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, like the Episcopalians, have split over homosexuality. A new church body is now being organized, consisting of congregations that reject the ELCA’s decision to allow non-celibate homosexuals to serve as pastors: Conservative members of America’s largest Lutheran denomination announced
Kevin Staley-Joyce at the First Things blog quotes a great passage from the great G. K. Chesterton (from The Thing): In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called
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