When we confess the Nicene Creed, we say that the Holy Spirit, "proceeds from the Father and the Son." But Eastern Orthodox churches say that the Holy Spirit just "proceeds from the Father." That difference--known as the filioque, the Latin for "and the Son"-- led to the split between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Now the Lutheran World Federation wants to drop the filioque. What this means.
Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, is a Lutheran. This will doubtless attract attention to the rest of us Lutherans, but those of us with a confessional theology will need to get used to explaining that we are not THAT kind of Lutheran.
The "vibes" election. Google is an illegal monopoly. And Hindu nationalists court American conservatives.
After World War II and during the Cold War, it was said that America is not a nation based on ethnicity, as in the European nations, nor on race, as in the recently defeated Fascist nations. Rather, America is based on ideas as articulated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Constitution with its Bill of Rights. Today, a counter-movement insists that America is a culture and a people. Which is it?
How does Christianity apply to the controversy over "America as an Idea" vs. "America as a People"?
What will happen to American political parties after one of them wins and the other one loses the upcoming presidential election? An ideological reset of the losing party that could lead to long-term success? One party dominance? A new secularist political consensus? And where will this leave Christians in their vocations of citizenship?
We have become so used to scams--on the phone, email, and social media--that we hardly pay attention to them any more. But who are the scammers? Criminals to be sure. But in some cases, they are also trafficking victims--slave labor bought, sold, and abused. Law enforcement calls it "forced criminality."
Adrian Warnock has devised a set of criteria for Christian blogs and has asked the Artificial Intelligence application ChatGPT to apply them and to rank the blogs accordingly. Cranach came in at #8! (Other Patheos blogs also did well.) He has also designed a widget that gives brief summaries of what the top blogs are posting about.
A trial for the 9/11 terrorists. Abortion makes men "more free." And good news on the environment.
Our military technology has gotten so advanced that, paradoxically, in Ukraine it is bringing back the conditions of World War I.
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