2017-01-12T21:14:48-05:00

We have gay marriage.  Now we are also getting gay divorce.  The New York Times has published an op-ed piece entitled  “I Got Gay Married. I Got Gay Divorced. I Regret Both.”  The author, Meredith Maran, tells with poignant honesty how she crusaded for gay

2017-01-12T21:16:57-05:00

A committee of the European Parliament has passed a measure that would give legal rights to robots, classifying them as “electronic persons.”  It also imposes obligations, such as liability for any damages they might be responsible for.  The report also says that robots must not

2017-01-11T10:36:13-05:00

Giving the opening prayer at Donald Trump’s inauguration will be Paula White, a megachurch “pastor” and televangelist who is a leading proponent of the “prosperity gospel.”  In fact, prosperity gospel preachers were the leading “evangelicals” who supported Trump from the beginning in an organized way. Westminster

2017-01-11T19:46:53-05:00

Donald Trump held his first news conference since winning the election.  He said that he now believes the Russians were probably responsible for the Democratic National Committee e-mail hacks, but he blasted the report that Russia has compromising information on him, singling out CNN for

2017-01-11T20:25:53-05:00

The Anglican cathedral in Glasgow, in its interfaith zeal, invited a Muslim to read from the Qu’ran in the divine service for Epiphany.  The purpose was to show that Muslims too honor Jesus.  The reader did read the accounts of Jesus’s birth in the Muslim

2017-01-10T20:44:50-05:00

Frederich Buechner is a novelist and writer that I really appreciate, but his definition of vocation is causing confusion.  He said that your vocation is “the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.”  Great words with some good applications, but to say this

2017-01-10T12:46:51-05:00

Meryl Streep took the occasion of her lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes to give a blistering speech against president-elect Donald Trump.  See Mollie Hemingway’s critique of her speech. Now actors have the same right as all other citizens to criticize their public officials.

2017-01-11T17:08:32-05:00

Not only did the Russians hack into the Democrats’ e-mails in an attempt to influence the election.  According to a classified report shared with Donald Trump, the Russians also compiled a dossier of “compromising” information about the president-elect’s personal life and about his finances. That

2017-01-09T10:24:29-05:00

More from David Zahl., who distinguishes between the big-L “Law” (of God) and the little-l “law” that people today try, futilely, to live by. . . . The latter too is a sign of how people today are obsessed with justifying themselves, even though they

2017-01-09T10:26:02-05:00

Not long ago, conservatives condemned Wikileaks leaker Julian Assange.  After all, Assange exposed U.S. intelligence operations, possibly endangering the lives of CIA agents.  Donald Trump even said he deserved the death penalty.  But now, after Assange released e-mails embarrassing to Hillary Clinton in support of

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