The medical profession enjoys some of the highest level of respect in the country, and rightly so. Physicians, nurses, and other health-care workers do amazing work in healing our afflictions and saving our lives. But they are human beings, susceptible to cultural pressures like everyone
The always-interesting Peter Leithart, a fellow Patheos blogger, discusses Systematic Theology, II: The Works of God (2001) by the late Lutheran theologian Robert Jenson. one of a series of posts on the Ten Commandments. Leithart doesn’t always agree with him, nor would we more conservative Lutherans, Jenson
Normally, the leadership of important government agencies like the CIA goes to politicians, campaign allies, or career bureaucrats. This spoils system approach is not always bad, resulting in some effective leadership as well as some that is less effective. This time, though, the president has
More on the Ascension of Christ. . . .I keep reading on evangelical sites that with His Ascension, Jesus says goodbye, that He left at the most inopportune time, that the disciples now must carry on after Jesus is gone, that Jesus isn’t with us
Last month a man in Toronto drove his car into a crowd of people, killing 10. His self-described motive? To strike out against women, none of whom will have sex with him. His Facebook page proclaimed the advent of “the Incel Rebellion.” The term derives
The resurrected Jesus was with His disciples for 40 days, and then He returned to His Father. So on the 40th day after Easter, making it always fall on a Thursday, we celebrate Ascension Day. Today is that day. This is one of the most
Over half of the money that Americans spend on food goes for eating out in restaurants. And what we pay for the actual production of food by farmers is only 7.8 cents for every dollar we spend. Caitlin Dewey, writing in the Washington Post, draws
Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) is a thinker I want to look into more, writing as he does about civilizational change and the dire influence of gnosticism. In this quotation, he says that the “worldly success” of a religion brings on its decline. This is because
We finally watched Avengers: Infinity War. The super villain in that story is Thanos, who has the well-intentioned goal of killing half of all living things in the universe, so that the other half can flourish. I am greatly encouraged that such population explosion obsession is
There are all kinds of negative emotions. Not all of them are morally or spiritually bad, as such. Depression, for example, can come upon a person for good reasons or because of a medical condition. Depression is not the same thing as despair, which implies
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