David Gibson of Religious News Service tells about three major exhibitions opening this month on Luther’s Reformation: at the Morgan Library in New York City; at the Minneapolis Art Institute; and at Emory University in Atlanta. These sound extremely interesting and worth going to. I
I’ve been studying the Lutheran doctrine of the Two Kingdoms, which has some interesting applications to our controversies today. Christian defenders of Donald Trump are saying that his sexual transgressions show that he isn’t a saint. But he is well-suited to the pragmatic, rough-and-tumble world
Archaeologists have discovered European DNA at the site where those 8,000 lifesize terracotta soldiers guard the tomb of China’s first Emperor. They are concluding that Greek sculptors may have been involved with their creation, especially since the realistic statues correspond to Greek styles and techniques. They
Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize. The Peace Prize for “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Masters of War”? No. The Chemistry Prize for his duets with Joan Baez? No. The Prize for Music? There is no prize for music. He won the Prize for
Jacob Lupfer makes the observation that non-denominational evangelicals tend to support Donald Trump, while “confessional evangelicals” (those committed to a specific theology) tend not to. These are generalizations about leaders who are vocal about the election, not poll results of rank and file members. But his
The emails regarding Hillary Clinton being released by Wikileaks are not from her illegal secret server that she used as Secretary of State. Rather, they are hacks of the emails of John Podesta, her campaign chairman and longtime henchman. In them, Podesta and scores of
This is an unspiritual topic that is none of our business and appeals only to our morbid curiosity. The Pew Research Center has released findings about the income levels in different religious groups. (Not just churches but religions and no-religions.) It’s notable, for one thing,
Nebraska Senator and rising conservative star Ben Sasse describes himself as a “Lutero-Calvinist.” Though he grew up and came to faith in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and says he is “in love with the Lutheran tradition,” he is now a member of a Presbyterian Church
Richard Posner is a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. In an op-ed for Slate, he said that he sees “absolutely no value” in judges devoting even seconds to studying the Constitution. Even the
Coastal areas in Florida and other Southeastern states evacuated their populations to escape Hurricane Matthew. But when it hit, it sort of fizzled out. While the hurricane took over 500 lives (maybe as many as a thousand), particularly in Haiti, it didn’t do that much
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