More good stuff from Uwe Siemon-Netto, who has a provocative article in the “Lutheran Witness” on the vocation of the voter. Vocation has to do with the priesthood of all believers; therefore, Christians are to be voter-priests. He sums it up this way: the Church
Use this space to comment on tonight’s final debate. Is McCain doomed? Did Obama put it away? Does McCain now have a chance?
I love pictures of babies when they are laughing. I also love pictures of babies when they are crying. Here we see my new granddaughter Elizabeth’s emotional range. Such rage! Such indignation! Look at those clenched little fists!
The British TV series “Life on Mars” is terrific, though the new American remake is less so. But it involves a modern-day cop getting zapped back to 1973, presented as an exotic time in history with strange clothing styles and primitive police work. Hey, 1973
The Treasury department is spending $250 billion to buy stock in nine of our largest banks, thus giving them capital to lend. From The Washington Post: The U.S. government is dramatically escalating its response to the financial crisis by planning to invest $250 billion in
Here is a powerful column from Uwe Siemon-Netto, the German journalist who runs the Institute of Lay Vocation at Concordia Seminary In St. Louis. I post it in full, with his permission. Please read it to the very end, where you will find a detail
Today is Columbus Day. Please honor the occasion by gathering around your family, talking to your friends and neighbors, and mentioning to your casual acquaintances that it isn’t true that people believed that the world was flat until Columbus proved them wrong! The ancients believed
The number of Amish has grown 84% since 1992, to a total of some 231,000. To deal with that growth–and also to escape the suburbanization that has encroached on some of their traditional rural settlements in the Midwest–Amish are migrating, buying land, and establishing settlements
. . .we wouldn’t be having this financial meltdown! Washington Post columnist Ross Douthat puts the blames our current financial meltdown on George Bailey, of Frank Capra’s masterpiece It’s a Wonderful Life: Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey was actually a pretty savvy businessman. And it’s even
In a case we have blogged about in the past, a Canadian human rights tribunal has acquitted columnist Mark Steyn of the charge of “hate speech” for criticizing Islam. See Mark Steyn acquitted in Canadian sharia case.
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