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December 2013

December 09, 2013
If you were travelling through Dallas, Chicago , Nashville, Grand Rapids, or other cities in...
December 09, 2013
A woman had a complication in her pregnancy that would normally (by today's standards) be...
December 09, 2013
A comic strip  (which you can see here after the jump) raised a mathematical conundrum...
December 06, 2013
Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95.  He exemplifed an unusual kind of political...
December 06, 2013
Nelson Mandela, who led South Africa out of racial apartheid, was a Christian, whose faith...
December 06, 2013
The Gospel reading for the first Sunday of Advent last week was about Christ's Triumphal...
December 06, 2013
OK, I've been kind of hard on the church growth movement lately (e.g., here and...
December 06, 2013
You know the  "forever" stamp with a closeup of the face of the Statue of...
December 05, 2013
A Nigerian ship sank to the bottom of the Atlantic.  Three days later, divers went...
December 05, 2013
A prominent evolutionary scientist, Dr. Eugene M. McCarthy, is advancing a new theory about the...
December 05, 2013
My former student Brett Harris shows that he was paying attention when our literature class...
December 04, 2013
Charismatic Christians consider "praise and worship songs" to be, in effect, sacramental, bringing worshippers into...
December 04, 2013
The Federal Trade Commission is bringing to bear its anti-trust, anti-price-fixing powers against the Robber...
December 04, 2013
The Democratic wing of the Democratic party is starting to assert itself, wanting to bring...
December 03, 2013
The best argument for adopting the techniques of the Church Growth movement--contemporary worship, non-traditional styles,...
December 03, 2013
HealthCare.gov is now working 90% of the time, according to officials, though glitches sometimes come...
December 03, 2013
In the political world, you will hear talk of RINOs, Republican In Name Only.  LCMS...
December 02, 2013
It's Advent Season!  Here is a fine explanation of its different dimensions from Rev. Shawn...
December 02, 2013
The redoubtable Anthony Sacramone tells about how he was influenced--indeed, evangelized--by  C. S. Lewis. Mr....
December 02, 2013
In the course of a discussion of how Vladimir Putin is rebuilding Russia's Soviet-era spheres...

November 2013

November 29, 2013
A movie entitled The Son of God will be released February 28.  An expanded version...
November 29, 2013
According to a document leaked by Edward Snowden, the NSA has been tracking visits to...
November 29, 2013
Most attention in the Obamacare rollout has been on the individual mandate to buy insurance...
November 28, 2013
I hope you have a meaningful Thanksgiving, with the thankful part not overshadowed by shopping,...
November 28, 2013
Someone has said (again, please help me source it if you can) that if you...
November 28, 2013
Right now, people who lack health insurance and need a government subsidy to pay for...
November 28, 2013
We want to do things that we can't do, for one reason or another, and...
November 27, 2013
We just celebrated the last Sunday of the Church Year--some call it the Sunday of...
November 27, 2013
Roman Catholics and the Lutheran World Federation made a splash a few years ago when...
November 27, 2013
The Supreme Court has announced that it will settle the question of whether owners of...
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