Free health care is an attractive proposition. But Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All plan would cost $2 trillion per year. Currently, all federal tax revenues only come to $3.4 trillion. Actually, the U.S. already has a national health care system, operated mostly in the private sector. We should identify the problems and address those, as opposed to tearing down what we now have and starting from scratch.
Once again, Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari is quoting Pope Francis as rejecting a key tenet of Christianity. This time it's the bodily resurrection of Christ.
To honor our military veterans, read these citations for two recent recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
People used to say that the USA was founded as a Christian nation. Today scholars say that the country was founded on Enlightenment principles, drawing on the thought of John Locke and related political theorists. But new research concludes that Christianity was far more influential than the Enlightenment in the founding of the nation.
Richard Nixon had his "silent majority." Ronald Reagan had his "moral majority." Now Donald Trump has what he calls his "angry majority."
Another study of America's political polarization sees the divide in terms of a concept often studied by Christian scholars: worldview.
Political conflicts are normal and necessary in democracies. But when the conflict is no longer about candidates or issues but disagreement about the foundations of democracy itself--refusing to accept the legitimacy of elections that don't go their way and rejecting the rule of law when it goes against their political agendas--we have what political scientists call "regime cleavage."
The word about Lutheranism is getting around.
All Saints' Day celebrates everlasting life. It is bracketed by other holidays, the day before and the day after, that celebrate death.
Reforming means fixing what is broken, returning something to its essence. The contemporary church today, like that of 1517, is in sore need of reformation.
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