A British court had ruled that a mentally-handicapped woman must get an abortion. Even though the woman wanted to keep her baby. Even though the woman’s mother, who has custody decisions over her, wanted her to have the baby and volunteered to raise him or
Today, June 25, is the 489th anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession, which sets forth the definitive teachings of Lutheran theology. This is very much a lay document, having been written not by Luther but by the great classical Renaissance scholar Philipp Melanchthon,
The Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Maryland, is a 40-foot cross erected by local residents and the American Legion as a memorial to Americans who died in World War I. Today it stands on a highway median owned by a state commission. The American Humanist Association
We just got back from the Outback. Of the many strange and quirky marvels we saw, the one that haunts me the most is the Dog Fence, also known as the Dingo Fence. Dingoes are voracious predators that can wreak havoc with sheep. My son-in-law
We Christians often speak of non-believers as “lost.” That is no metaphor today. For all of the technology that makes our lives easier and more pleasant, many of us–non-believers but probably some believers as well–feel that their lives and existence itself are meaningless. I came
The Barna Research Group, in conjunction with Abilene Christian University, has published a study entitled Christians at Work. It demonstrates that Christians’ awareness of the doctrine of vocation seems to have grown considerably over the past few years. But I’m not sure the researchers or the
Chris Arnade studied the most destitute and seemingly hopeless Americans–street people, addicts, prostitutes, the wretchedly poor, the “underclass,” people often referred to as the “dregs of society”–searching for the shreds of human dignity that they still have by getting to know them. And a funny
Catholic scholar Daniel J. Mahoney has written a book entitled The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity. It argues that the humanitarian notion of compassion has displaced the Christian understanding of compassion, grounded in Divine Mercy and Christian love. From
The Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is charged with studying and coming to conclusions on theological issues. Its latest report is a discussion of social media. You might wonder, how is the topic of how we use
A couple of years ago we blogged about how Pope Francis wanted to change the Lord’s Prayer. Well, he has done it, at least for the Italian liturgy. And here we see the problem with the papacy. The Pope objects to the Sixth Petition: “And
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