Upending the economy. The Marxist comic book. And how to thwart a black mass.
Upending the economy. The Marxist comic book. And how to thwart a black mass.
If two-thirds of women (67%) who get abortions didn't want to, and almost as many (60%) would not have had one if they had "more emotional support" and "financial security," most abortions can be prevented.
Americans United for Life is promoting legislation they are calling "Make Birth Free." It would require health insurers and Medicaid to pay all expenses for having a baby, plus give mothers a two-year subsidy. Intended to reduce the number of abortions, it would also address the "birth dearth." Would you support this bill, or do you see problems with it?
Economists call our mutual interdependence the division of labor. Theologians call it the doctrine of vocation.
To a large degree, we have lost our sense of community. MacIntyre's model--creed, story, practices--can help us consider what has gone wrong in the three estates of church, family, and state. And how we might bring back that sense of belonging.
We keep hearing about our need for "community"--how we've lost it, how we need it, how churches can provide it--but we don't hear much about what that entails. Alasdair MacIntyre says every community needs three things: a creed, a story, and a practice. How that applies in the three estates of church, family, and state.
Trump's honeymoon is over. Abort the poor to save money. And Methodist schism sparks violence and arrests in Africa.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust plan to "decolonize" Shakespeare heralds the death of woke ideology and critical theory.
A proposed law in Montana would require clergy to report child abuse, even when they learn about it under the "Seal of Confession," the vow never to reveal the sins confessed by a penitent. Is this a religious liberty issue? Should there be limits to the seal? Should the law be passed?
What the Lutheran Religious Life Survey found as to why people come into the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod from the outside, whether as non-believers converting to Christianity or Christians from other traditions converting to Lutheranism (like me).
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